Anne Hathaway has mentioned working with Jack Antonoff on music for her new movie Mom Mary.
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The thriller, launched April 24 within the UK, sees Hathaway play a pop star who abruptly ends her tour after an emotional disaster earlier than reconnecting with an estranged pal and dressmaker (Michaela Coel) to organize for a comeback efficiency.
For the movie, Hathaway carried out new songs written by Charli XCX and produced by Antonoff, who additionally labored along with her as a “information”. Hathaway’s efficiency of the observe ‘Burial’ was launched again in March, and will be heard right here.
Now, the actress has opened up about working as a musician for the movie, saying the expertise was “humbling”.
This isn’t the primary time that Hathaway has gotten concerned within the soundtracks to her movies, having additionally taken on singing roles in each the 2012 movie adaptation of Les Misérables, and in 2011’s animated movie, Rio.
Nonetheless, in a brand new interview with Discussing Movie, she defined how the expertise differed from working as a musical theatre actress. “It’s sort of like asking if a ten-speed bike and a Harley are the identical factor,” she mentioned. “Technically, yeah, it’s the identical genus, however the specifics are utterly totally different, and I needed to discover ways to experience a Harley, you understand, the intricacies of the voice to the microphone.
“It’s not one thing I’d ever actually gotten to mess around with, and that took some time for me to wrap my head round, however I had a tremendous information in Jack Antonoff,” she continued.
“He simply saved giving me notes. We might go in and report, after which I’d get to go meditate on what it was that Jack was speaking about, slowly inch by inch, 12 months by 12 months, we obtained nearer till lastly the music’s what you hearken to.
Hathaway has beforehand mentioned that she based mostly her character on Antonoff’s longtime collaborator, Taylor Swift.
In addition to Mom Mary, Hathaway lately rejoined Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt for the sequel of The Satan Wears Prada.
As for Antonoff, Swift lately addressed rumours of a feud between the 2 of them.
