Emmy nominated co-choreographers Danielle Sten-Guillermo and Lance Guillermo had very little time to pull off the hallucination dance sequence on “ Will Trent .”
They had less than four days prep time and less than a full day of shooting.
In the episode, titled “One of Us Now,” Ramon Rodriguez’s Will Trent has a fever dream where he hallucinates and finds himself dancing to Donna Summer’s “Last Dance,” and he confesses his love to Angie, played by Erika Christensen.
Showrunner Liz Heldens wanted that song. Lucky for all involved, the song was cleared. Once the Guillermos received the script, it was off to the races. But this was unlike anything they had ever done before. Danielle Sten-Guillermo says, “We were told, ‘You’ll probably have Ramon for maybe an hour in any of your rehearsal