From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.

Today, Johnny Greenwood talks about the two ends of his music life,

as the lead guitarist for the band Radiohead and as the composer of film scores.

His score for the power of the dog was just nominated for an Oscar.

He also wrote the score for the new film, Spenser, and the scores for Paul Thomas Anderson's films,

There Will Be Blood, The Master, Phantom Thread, and Likarish Pizza.

Also, we'll talk about method acting with cultural critic Isaac Butler.

In his new book The Method, he describes the history of that acting technique,

the people who created and fought over it, the actors who practiced it,

and how it fell out of favor.

The book also tells the story of how acting was influenced by war and social change.

My guest, Johnny Greenwood, was nominated for an Oscar last Tuesday,

for his original score for the film The Power of the Dog.

In a way, he owes this part of his career to screenwriter and director Paul Thomas Anderson.

When Greenwood was primarily known as the lead guitarist and keyboardist for the band Radiohead,

Anderson asked Greenwood to write the score for his film There Will Be Blood.

It was an unexpected turn for Greenwood, but he was immediately noticed.

The score was described in Rolling Stone as a sonic explosion that reinvented what film music could be.

Greenwood wrote scores for Anderson's subsequent films, including Phantom Thread and The Master,

which opened like this.

That's a pretty great way to start a film.

Greenwood also writes a lot of film music that's more avant-garde,

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