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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

537: Darren Aronofsky On The Music Of Caught Stealing

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Arts, Tv & Film

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is Darren Aronofsky, who returns to the podcast to discuss his comedy crime thriller, Caught Stealing. Starring Austin Butler, Regina King, Matt Smith, Zoe Kravitz and Liev Schreiber among others, it tells the story of New York bartender Hank Thompson, who finds himself in all manner of trouble with a motley crue of gangsters and lowlives when he agrees to look after his neighbours cat. The score was written by Rob Simonson and performed hy IDLES, who also wrote some original pieces for the film themselves. Darren goes into great detail about their collaboration.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, a very warm welcome along to soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman.

0:03.8

Thank you very much for joining me on another journey into the beautiful, creative minds of those who work in the magical world of film, TV and music.

0:14.9

I've just been looking at loads of reviews and responses coming out of the Telluride and Venice Festival, film festival,

0:25.0

namely because there was a couple of films that I saw, I think I alluded to this last week

0:30.3

that I'd seen two films I couldn't see about that literally floored me.

0:34.9

Well, they've been shown at Telluride and they've been reviews come out, so I guess I can

0:39.4

tell you now. Hamnet and Deliver Me From Nowhere, which is the Bruce Springsteen film. So Hamlet is

0:45.9

Chloe Jal's new film with Jesse Buckley and Paul Mesco. It's astonishing. It's so meditative and emotional and beautiful.

0:57.9

And then deliver me from nowhere is the Jeremy's.

1:02.8

Jeremy Allen White is Springsteen.

1:04.6

And then Jeremy Strong as his manager, John Landown.

1:07.3

That's one of the things that I really loved about the film

1:09.2

was this relationship

1:10.9

that is still a really, really successful and loving relationship and how he really,

1:17.3

how Landau really had and continues to have Springsteen's back. But also, I don't want to say

1:22.6

too much about what it's about apart from it. It's a really private film private film I think but it will move you to tears

1:32.8

yeah I was it really surprised me how I was bawling my eyes out at it it's so great Jeremy

1:39.3

Alan White is incredible Springsteen I can't wait for you to see it. Anyway, there we go. I'm just glad I

1:45.2

can tell you about them. I've no idea when they're coming out. I think this time, some point this

1:49.9

year, they've got the festivals to do and all that kind of stuff, but oh my God, it's so great. Also,

1:55.8

just quickly, if anyone in America's listening and you have the chance to watch She Ride's Shotgun,

2:02.6

which is the new film from director Nick Rowland, stars Taran Edgerton, go and see it.

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