The stars of David Lowery\u2019s psychodrama on the secrets behind creating music for a fictional pop diva<\/p>\n
As David Lowery, the director, was writing the fictional pop star Mother Mary<\/a> for his new film of the same name, he spent a lot of time studying the last 25 years in music. He listened to Taylor Swift<\/a> (whose Reputation concert film inspired the performances in the film), Lorde<\/a> and FKA twigs<\/a>, who appears on screen as a medium named Imogene. But as the film\u2019s haunted love story between Mary (played by Anne Hathaway<\/a>) and her former best friend and designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel<\/a>) emerged, his listening habits shifted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pop music fell away and other music started to enter that sphere,\u201d he says in A24\u2019s New York offices. He\u2019s sitting beside twigs and Hathaway the day after the trio attended the film\u2019s premiere in the city. \u201cJames Blake<\/a> and Aldous Harding<\/a> really captured the emotion that I was trying to type out between Sam and Mother Mary. They began to help me channel the feeling of the movie itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
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