Hello folks. How are you? Hopefully you're either listening to this enjoying a sun-kissed walk or you might

have just returned from a sun-kiss walk or you may remember of having your skin tingle from a little bit of

sunshine over the past week. Isn't it just being glorious? Oh, just makes me smile from the inside out.

I absolutely love it. Anyway, I hope your week's been well and thank you for joining me for another

episode of my pride and joy, apart from my children obviously, my little podcast soundtracking.

It genuinely means the world to me this show and allows me to just enthuse about

two of my passions, film and music and have conversations with the most wonderful and insightful

creatives in the world of film, music and TV just to talk about their relationship with music.

So I hope you enjoy the show if this maybe is your first or second time listening or maybe you're a regular

listener. I appreciate every one of you. And it's another double header for you this week on

soundtracking with a director and one of his leading ladies joining me to discuss their spin on

one of Disney's most iconic villains. Craig Gillespie and Emma Stone have, quite simply, created

a fabulous Cuella DeVille. Effectively, it's a prequel to the original movie. Curella also stars

Emma Thompson, Mark Strong, amongst a cast of many other fine actors.

And it tells the story of Estella Miller,

a fashion designer making her way in 1970s punk London,

who eventually becomes the titular body.

Now, as well as featuring over 50 songs,

the film is scored by our very dear friend,

the hugely talented Nicholas Brutel,

who complimented the deluge of needle drops with what he told us was his first rock-driven score.

And it's with Nicholas' cue, Cruella, that we begin. Music I'm I'm I'm

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