Plucked from relative obscurity to score Hugh Jackman film The Death of Robin Hood, the skilled singer-songwriter explains how he conquered his impostor syndrome<\/p>\n
Last year, Jim Ghedi was having a chicken dinner at his mother\u2019s house in Sheffield when he checked his phone. \u201cThis director started following me on Instagram,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAnd there\u2019s pictures of him with Nicolas Cage. As a joke, I said to my mam: \u2018I might message him and say, let me do your next film score.\u2019 As I said it, he messaged me, saying: \u2018I want you to do my next film score.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The director was Michael Sarnoski and the film is the forthcoming A24 production The Death of Robin Hood, starring Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer. Sarnoski had heard Ghedi\u2019s excellent 2025 album, Wasteland, a stirring and brooding album of apocalyptic folk that was a reflection of societal rot and collapse in England. Released on the small Calder Valley label Basin Rock, the album was critically acclaimed \u2013 and his most successful and ambitious to date \u2013 but it had not turned Ghedi into a household name. He thought that the film opportunity \u201cwould all blow away and they\u2019d find out who I am\u201d, he says. \u201cSome top producer would put up the red flag.\u201d<\/p>\n
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