It’s probably fair to say that most of us have never slapped someone so hard with a wet fish that they fall, fully clothed, into a swimming pool.
Until recently, that was also true for Icelandic jazz-pop phenomenon Laufey.
Then she released a song called Mad Woman, whose video required her to hit Heated Rivalry actor Hudson Williams square in the face with a red snapper.
“Oh my God, it was amazing. It was cathartic,” she laughs at the memory. “I had a lot of unreleased energy that I released on poor Hudson.”
The shoot took place in Los Angeles, with a chic 1960s aesthetic, a superstar cast (including Olympic medallist Alyssa Liu and Katseye singer Megan Skiendiel), and a storyline about Laufey’s irrational relationship with a man who’s no good for her.
To her delight, the fish scene required several takes, full of improvised insults.
“I’m not a very angry person but it felt good to scream and shout,” she says. “I dug into my deepest memories of when I’ve been the most wronged by men and I accessed a part of myself I didn’t know I had in me.
“It felt very primal.”
