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Sort of like,This is gonna happen.
And it was really very confusing.
I had no real context for the show.
And Im a big fan of Luca Guadagnino.
So Im just like, Whats the reach out for?
Like, a video, and its an HBO show?
I mean, my answer was yes, but I was very confused.
And then [Luca] sent me a couple of scripts.
And in the couple of scripts hed sent, I noticed Fraser would, like, talk about me.
Or they would be listening to my song Time Will Tell.
It was still very confusing.
So I was asked to re-create this concert from 2016 thatactuallyhappened.
That concert really did happen.
And from there, we just started talking more.
Hed show me edits, and Id visit the set.
And then we started talking about the musical landscape of the show and composers that we love.
Hes someone whos very, very musically minded.
Thats something Ive always picked up on and really loved about his work.
And it really, just gradually and naturally, ended up becoming a score.
Because I tend to coast by in a somewhat oblivious manner.
I think its helped me make things continuously and not have nervous breakdowns.
I guess he probably would be into Blood Orange.
And its weird for me to almost admit that, but it kind of works.
Its made me look at the song in this new way.
It was really funny.
I know where I was in that time, physically but also emotionally and mentally.
So I started thinking about it more.
So I feel like maybe thats what Luca picked up from this song.
Its all still sort of in process.Exactly.
So I had that imagery.
And from there, it progressed pretty naturally.
He said that to me.
It allowed him to tell this kind of story in this pacing Ive actually never seen anyone do before.
There were definitely edits, and we went back and forth.
But it was the most freedom, artistically, I feel like Ive had in a scoring process.
Im glad you mentioned the pace of the show, because it has really intrigued me throughout.
I was hoping to remember what really happened back then.
One thing that was cool was that I actually ended up playing songs that Ive never played before.
It was really cool to put that together and perform and actually play live.
That was an early conversation.
And Luca said hed written a thesis on Jonathan Demme when he was younger.
So that was really cool for me.
But Luca really understood it, so it was really cool.
And it seems like the kids were actually kind of into it.
Unless they were all, like, incredible actors.
It seems like they were into it.
