The four runway superstars discussed how they came to be cast in the pop star's"Freedom! '90" music video in the second episode ofIn an interview with MTV, Michael explains his decision to cast models and have them lip-sync to his song instead of starring in the video himself, saying, "I made decisions a couple years ago to change the way my career was going and my life was going by not appearing in the videos, by not being interviewed, by not doing press.
So, Campbell explains in the documentary, "We get this phone call that George Michael wants us in his video," and according to Crawford, "George was like, 'It has to be this group of women.' It had to be all of us." Despite Evangelista not being interested "at all" at first "because it wasn't fashion," Turlington confirmed that "at some point, we made a group decision" to do it.
The four supers were then flown to London to shoot the music video and Evangelista reveals that, "When I got to the set and they wanted me to lip-sync, I didn't know the words. I had to learn them very quickly in the trailer while they were doing my hair and makeup."Turlington likewise was very much learning the words on the fly that day. "My very first scene that I shot was where you just see my eyes through, like, this cutout.
Crawford adds, "I just remember it being super dark and someone explaining to me that I was going to be in a bathtub. I was like, 'Really?' I felt like everyone else had a better part than me." And Campbell admits that while the video certainly had all the elements of something instantly iconic, "We were not knowing the impact that that video had at all. We didn't have time to know because, honestly, we were just jumping from the next country to the next country."