THE GLOBAL VIEWERSHIP NUMBERS FOR THE HALFTIME SHOW ARE EXPECTED NEXT WEEK. AND PEOPLE WERE NOT JUST FOCUSED ON BAD BUNNY. THE HALFTIME SHOW HAD AN IMPRESSIVE SET, INCLUDING SOME BUSHES THAT HAD TO MOVE INTO PLACE AND THEN GET OUT AGAIN VERY QUICKLY. YEAH, THERE WERE ABOUT 400 OF THEM, AND THERE WERE PEOPLE INSIDE AND KCRA 3’S PEYTON HEADLEE SPOKE WITH A FEW OF THOSE BUSHY CHARACTERS, SOME WITH TIES HERE TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. SO HOW DID THEY END UP THERE? YEAH, IT’S $1 MILLION QUESTION, RIGHT? WELL, THERE WAS A CASTING CALL THAT WENT OUT EARLY THIS YEAR FOR THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW. IT WAS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE BETWEEN 510 AND SIX ONE WITH A SLENDER, TWO ATHLETIC BUILD AND AN ABILITY TO WEAR A COSTUME WEIGHING UP TO 40 POUNDS. SO THIS IS THAT COSTUME. YOU CAN SEE IT HEAD TO TOE, COVERED IN GRASS. THOSE PEOPLE, THEY RAN OUT ONTO THE FIELD AND THEY STOOD COMPLETELY STILL DURING BAD BUNNY’S PERFORMANCE. AND THEN THEY RAN RIGHT BACK OFF. I TALKED TO TWO OF THOSE PEOPLE INSIDE THOSE COSTUMES. ONE OF THEM A SACRAMENTO STATE STUDENT, THE OTHER A WOMAN LIVING IN SAN MATEO. THIS IS HOW THEY DESCRIBED WHAT IT WAS LIKE ON SUNDAY. YOU DEFINITELY TELL. THERE WAS A BUZZ IN THE TUNNELS. AND THERE WERE THERE WERE TVS THAT YOU COULD SEE, LIKE THE LIVE LIKE TIME. HOW MANY SECONDS WERE LEFT. AND I REMEMBER EVERYONE WAS LIKE, COUNTING DOWN LIKE FIVE, FOUR. ONCE WE GOT OUT ON THE FIELD. IT WAS PRETTY CRAZY. BUT WE ALL KNEW WHAT TO DO. WE JUST DID OUR THING. I REMEMBER JUST LOOKING UP LIKE I. I HAD TO, YOU KNOW, MANEUVER MY TREE ON AND I LIKE, STOOD FOR A SECOND. I REMEMBER, LIKE OPENING THE BUSH AND LOOKING UP AND I’M LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS. THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE. OBVIOUSLY, ON THE FIELD, WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO NOT MOVE, SO I KNEW THE WORLD WOULD SEE THAT WE WEREN’T MOVING AND WE DID LOOK LIKE PROPS. BUT OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE STANDS ARE FILMING US. OBVIOUSLY, THE SECRET GOT OUT THAT WE WERE PEOPLE, AND UNTIL THEN, IT’S JUST BEEN PANDEMONIUM EVERYWHERE. THE SHOW AS A WHOLE. I THINK IT WAS, TO BE HONEST, REVOLUTIONARY. JUST EVERYTHING THAT IT STOOD FOR. IT WAS SUCH A JOY TO BE A PART OF THIS. YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HOW THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE RECEPTIVE TO IT. AND IT REALLY WAS ALL THE FANS IN THE STANDS MAKING US GO VIRAL AND NOT NECESSARILY THE PERFORMANCE ITSELF, BECAUSE THE WARDROBE TEAM DID A FANTASTIC JOB AT MAKING US LOOK LIKE WE WERE A PART OF THE FIELD. AND ACCORDING TO THE JOB POSTING, THERE WERE ABOUT EIGHT REHEARSALS AHEAD OF THE SUPER BOWL AND THIS WAS A PAID POSITION. THEY WERE EACH MAKING $18.70 AN HOUR. AND A KIND OF FUN NOTE ABOUT THIS IS THEY GOT TO KEEP PARTS OF THE COSTUME. AND SO PAIGE SAID THAT SHE’S KIND OF GOT GRASS ALL OVER HER HOUSE IS SOME SOME NEW DECORATIONS AND SOME GREAT MEMORIES. YOU KNOW WHAT A FUN WAY TO HAVE A KIND OF A TRIBUTE TO YOUR TIME IN STARDOM. YEAH. YOU GO
‘It was such a joy to be a part of’: Performers dressed in bushes during Bad Bunny’s halftime show share experience
One of the performers dressed as a bush was a Sacramento State student from Roseville.
Updated: 10:41 PM PST Feb 10, 2026
The Super Bowl halftime show featured about 400 bushes with people inside them, moving into place and out again during Bad Bunny’s performance.KCRA 3 spoke to two of the performers inside the costumes— a Sacramento State student from Roseville and a woman living in San Mateo.”You could definitely tell there was a buzz in the tunnels and there were TVs that you could see, like the live time, how many seconds were left, and I remember everyone was like counting down,” Daniel Hernandez said. “I remember just looking up, like I had to maneuver my tree, and I stood for a second, I remember, like opening the bush and looking up. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my goodness, that’s a lot of people.'” “Once we got out on the field, it was pretty crazy. But we all knew what to do and we just did our thing,” Paige Grabski added. “Obviously, on the field we were instructed to not move. So, I knew the world would see that we weren’t moving, and we did look like props. But of course, thousands of people in the stands are filming us. So obviously, the secret got out that we were people. And since then it’s just been pandemonium everywhere.”A casting call went out early this year for the Super Bowl halftime show, seeking individuals between 5’10” and 6’1″ with a slender to athletic build and the ability to wear a costume weighing up to 40 pounds.The costume covered the performers head to toe in grass, and they ran onto the field, standing completely still during the performance.According to the job posting, there were about eight rehearsals ahead of the Super Bowl, and it was a paid position with each performer earning $18.70 an hour. Hernandez and Grabski said the best part, however, was the experience.”I loved the show as a whole. I think it was, to be honest, revolutionary. Just everything that it stood for,” Hernandez said. “It was such a joy to be a part of this. You know, you have no idea how the world is going to be receptive to it. And it really was all of the fans in the stands making us go viral and not necessarily the performance itself, because the wardrobe team did a fantastic job at making us look like we were a part of the field,” Grabski said. Both said they were allowed to keep parts of the costume. Grabski said she kept a couple of pieces of grass for decoration around her house.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
SANTA CLARA, Calif. —
The Super Bowl halftime show featured about 400 bushes with people inside them, moving into place and out again during Bad Bunny’s performance.
KCRA 3 spoke to two of the performers inside the costumes— a Sacramento State student from Roseville and a woman living in San Mateo.
“You could definitely tell there was a buzz in the tunnels and there were TVs that you could see, like the live time, how many seconds were left, and I remember everyone was like counting down,” Daniel Hernandez said. “I remember just looking up, like I had to maneuver my tree, and I stood for a second, I remember, like opening the bush and looking up. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my goodness, that’s a lot of people.'”
“Once we got out on the field, it was pretty crazy. But we all knew what to do and we just did our thing,” Paige Grabski added. “Obviously, on the field we were instructed to not move. So, I knew the world would see that we weren’t moving, and we did look like props. But of course, thousands of people in the stands are filming us. So obviously, the secret got out that we were people. And since then it’s just been pandemonium everywhere.”
A casting call went out early this year for the Super Bowl halftime show, seeking individuals between 5’10” and 6’1″ with a slender to athletic build and the ability to wear a costume weighing up to 40 pounds.
The costume covered the performers head to toe in grass, and they ran onto the field, standing completely still during the performance.
According to the job posting, there were about eight rehearsals ahead of the Super Bowl, and it was a paid position with each performer earning $18.70 an hour.
Hernandez and Grabski said the best part, however, was the experience.
“I loved the show as a whole. I think it was, to be honest, revolutionary. Just everything that it stood for,” Hernandez said.
“It was such a joy to be a part of this. You know, you have no idea how the world is going to be receptive to it. And it really was all of the fans in the stands making us go viral and not necessarily the performance itself, because the wardrobe team did a fantastic job at making us look like we were a part of the field,” Grabski said.
Both said they were allowed to keep parts of the costume. Grabski said she kept a couple of pieces of grass for decoration around her house.
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