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The filmmaker meets the band … (Mills has always loved the band and listens to its music while he writes.)
Mills invited her to brunch with him and his friends when she visited L.A.
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Mills appreciated that this made his life easier.
I directed the least Ive ever directed, he says.
Vikander suggests Mills did a lot more.
Hes like a good conductor, she says.
The film becomes an album …
Mills assembled the soundtrack by sampling from the music Berninger had sent him.
The director helps produce the album …
In the studio, Mills offered radical suggestions that redirected the Nationals sound.
Millss presence also changed the Nationals working dynamic.
Aaron and I have been fighting on the same playground for 20 years, Berninger says.
And some guy comes [and] gets the Greasers and the Socs to get along.
The album changes the bands sound …
The 24-minute film Mills and Vikander made helped forge a new direction for the National.
For me, its an ode to this woman, Mills says.
He thought the deceptively fugitive phrase captured the themes of the film and the album.
[Vikanders character] is in every shot, Mills says.
Its like, Im easy to find, but Im not.
Its not revealing the thing; its just saying that it is easy to find the thing.
I Am Easy to Findcomes out on May 17.
Watch the trailer below.
