You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview,

with the composers for everything everywhere all at once.

Sun Lux, Ryan Law, Ian Chang, and Rafiq Batia.

This is Wang.

This is Wang.

Mrs. Wang, are you with us?

I am paying attention.

Now you may only see a pile of receipts, but I see a story.

I can see where this story is going.

It does not look good. What's happening?

Guys, thank you so much for taking time to talk with me about everything everywhere all at once.

In so many ways, it's like, it's the

movie of the year. And your guys' score is just remarkable. Let's start from the top. If I'm

not mistaken, you were first approached about the project in 2019. And when the Daniels approached

you, did you get it? Or did it, did you understand what they were going for?

Or did it seem a little insane? When they approached us, I think the, what we had to go off of

was an earlier version of the script, which was kind of even more wild and longer than the film ended up being.

I mean, definitely the first time I read it through, and I think this is sort of one of

the things that's really amazing about this movie is that even if you don't get it,

it's still like really fun, you know?

So I did not get it.

I think the first time I read it through it was just it was hard to

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