Episode 414: Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone & Jerskin Fendrix On The Music Of Poor Things

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We have a Poor Things double-header for you today, as first Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone join me to discuss their collaboration on the film, before their composer Jerskin Fendrix. As well as producing the film, Emma stars as Bella Baxter, a young woman in Victorian London , who is resurrected by a scientist following her suicide and embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery. It's the first time Yorgos has used a composer in the conventional sense, and also the first time Jerskin has written for film.

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo. Sorry, I don't know why I started like that. Welcome to another episode of
0:06.2	soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman. I say another because I love when I hear people get in touch
0:14.8	with us and say, oh, I just discovered your podcast. I'm like, wicked. It doesn't matter when
0:20.1	you've come to it. I'm just glad
0:21.2	that you've found us. So maybe this could well be your first listen. So welcome and welcome back
0:27.2	to our new friends, our old friends, but we're all friends as we dive into a conversation every
0:33.0	week about film and music. Sometimes it's a really in-depth conversation about the intricacies around
0:39.2	the creation of the music and how it fits in with the narrative and the characters. And then
0:44.6	other times it's a little bit more kind of surface level and then everything in between. But
0:51.4	whatever it is, I can't tell you how much I enjoy having these conversations
0:56.4	and bringing them to you and I hope you enjoy listening to them half as much as I enjoy doing
1:02.2	them. As I record this on a Sunday evening the 4th of February about quarter past 7 in the
1:08.5	evening, I am slightly giddy about the person that I am due to be interviewing
1:14.5	tomorrow afternoon approximately 2pm UK time.
1:18.4	But I'm not going to jinx things like I did with the Talking Heads episode.
1:23.2	So needless to say, when I'm asked about who are the people that I would still love to have on this podcast, the name of this gentleman comes up regularly.
1:31.7	He is definitely in the top three of people that I am desperate to have on this podcast.
1:38.3	We have spoken to a couple of his creatives in the past, but needless to say that his continued thirst for filmmaking
1:49.6	is infectious. So look out folks. We have a legend in cinema on the way. Not to say that
1:59.2	today's guests are not legendary status because they are and they
2:03.3	have created for me one of the best films of the past, I don't know, I think ever for me to be
2:10.4	honest because the filmmaker that you'll hear on today's episode is someone who kind of just has
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