After being on one of James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”, Nick Jonas dropped some inside info in an interview. For instance, they can’t run the air conditioning because it’ll ruin the sound so the car gets extremely hot!
Here are five OTHER interesting facts about “Carpool Karaoke”:
1. There’s no green screen.
The car is real and it’s not on a trailer. James is really driving although he’s not doing 70 down the interstate or anything. The show’s producer says they’re easy routes. The streets aren’t blocked off so there are other cars but he’s never going more than 20 miles-per-hour.
2. James’ car is part of a convoy.
The show has two cars ahead of him, and three behind him. And they don’t let any other cars around him for safety reasons.
3. They record the sound directly from the car.
There are tiny cameras the size of your knuckle stuck on the windshield. They’re not big enough to distract James’ view.
4. They film for about an hour and then the editors trims it down.
Usually they’re left with about 15 minutes of good stuff but when Adele did it she was having so much fun that she stayed in the car for more than two hours and they ended up with 54 minutes of good footage. The final cut of her episode is 15 minutes long. A producer says they probably won’t release any of the outtakes.
5. The idea came from a skit that James did for a Comic Relief charity event in 2011.
It featured him singing in the car with George Michael.
Carpool Karaoke with Adele, Elton John, and Justin Bieber