Interview With "Top Gun: Maverick" Composer & Soundtrack Producer, Lorne Balfe

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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"Top Gun: Maverick" has gone on to become one of the highest-grossing films of all time since its release earlier this year. Now, the film is a bonafide Oscar contender for multiple categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Tom Cruise), and many of its craft categories. One Oscar race where it's been the frontrunner for almost the entire season has been in Best Original Song for Lady Gaga's "Hold My Hand." The rock, power ballad plays over the credits but has its music weaved in throughout the movie, giving her composer credit alongside Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, and Harold Faltermeyer. Balfe was kind enough to take some time over the summer to talk with us about working on the score, what went into creating "Hold My Hand," and more. Please take a listen below and enjoy. Thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the composer and soundtrack producer for Top God Maverick, Lauren Balf.
0:10.0	What do we have here?
0:11.7	Here I thought we were special.
0:13.4	Fellas, this here's bag man.
0:15.0	Hang man.
0:15.8	Or whatever.
0:16.5	What the whole kind of mission is this?
0:22.6	Everyone here is the best there is.
0:24.6	Who the hell are they going to get to teach us?
0:26.6	Captain Pete Maverick Mitchell.
0:35.6	Let me be perfectly blunt.
0:38.3	You are not my first choice.
0:39.3	You were here at the request of Admiral Kazansky,
0:42.3	A.K.A. Iceman.
0:44.3	He seems to think that you have something left to offer the Navy.
0:46.3	What that is, I can't imagine.
0:48.3	We all do respect, sir.
0:52.3	I'm not a teacher.
0:56.3	I just want to manage the expectations.
1:00.5	What's the hell?
1:02.8	Good morning, aviators.
1:06.0	This is your captain speaking.
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