Performers dressed as sugarcane grass step on stage for Bad Bunny’s performance during Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images.
Performers dressed as sugarcane grass step on stage for Bad Bunny’s performance during Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images.
Somewhere in the viral footage of the Super Bowl LX halftime show, if you know where to look, is Miguel Soria. He’s wearing a 40-pound sugarcane bush costume and is Grass Bunny No. A21. He can’t see much through the fronds, but he’s having the time of his life.
Soria discovered the casting call on TikTok. The listing, posted by production company Backlit, sought field cast members — not dancers, but disciplined performers capable of executing structured blocking and movement while wearing 40 pounds of gear. Participants needed to be generally in shape and between 5 feet, 10 inches,i and 6 feet tall. A “marching arts” background was a plus. Soria was one of 380 selected.
Seven rehearsals near Levi’s Stadium stretched across two weeks leading up to game day. These were largely uneventful — a lot of standing and waiting. The term “grass bunny” started as an informal label among the cast and stuck. On the day of the game, the cast reported to the stadium at 8:30 a.m.
“It’s almost a full workday before you even get on the field [at 5 p.m.],” Soria said. The bus ride to the stadium took more than an hour in traffic, and the group’s energy had dipped.
The spectacle of an entire sugarcane field moving in formation evoked Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” But instead of spelling doom for a Scottish king, it spelled out choreography for more than 100 million viewers.
Soria was positioned on the outside of the formation, which gave him a partial view of the performance and — most importantly — a glimpse of Ricky Martin. The full scope of the performance was not visible to him from inside the costume.
For Soria, the absurdity was part of the appeal.
“You sign up to be a blade of grass at the Super Bowl, and then you actually become a blade of grass at the Super Bowl,” he said. “We had no idea it would become this viral thing. Hearing the crowd react — that’s when I felt the weight of it.”
Performers dressed as sugarcane grass step on stage for Bad Bunny’s performance during Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images.
Performers dressed as sugarcane grass step on stage for Bad Bunny’s performance during Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images.
Miguel Soria dressed up like sugarcane grass following Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Courtesy.
Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2026. Photo by Kevin Mazur.
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Sery Morales grew up in a small town that only had three radio stations: country, Christian and classic rock. Her tastes are much wider. She plays the flute, piano, recorder and electric guitar—though not very well. To make up for her mediocre skills, she befriended musicians around Oakland for the last 10 years; not because they were musicians, but because they laughed at her jokes.
Sery Morales grew up in a small town that only had three radio stations: country, Christian and classic rock. Her tastes are much wider. She plays the flute, piano, recorder and electric guitar—though not very well. To make up for her mediocre skills, she befriended musicians around Oakland for the last 10 years; not because they were musicians, but because they laughed at her jokes.