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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Producer David Heyman On Tupac, Williams, Potter & Paddington

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6754 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We've already spoken to one legendary British producer on this show in the shape of Stephen Woolley. Now it's the turn of David Heyman.

Like Stephen, David's CV is enviable. As well as producing all the of Harry Potter films and spin-off Fantastic Beasts, he's also the man behind The Light Between Oceans, Testament Of Youth and Gravity among many, many other celebrated movies. And as we'll discover, music very much falls under his remit.

The list of composers David has worked with is mighty impressive, from John Williams and James Newton Howard to Steven Price, Max Richter and Dario Marianelli, who scored his latest project, the delightful Paddington 2.

Perhaps surprisingly, David loves hip-hop, which informed his first movie as a producer, Juice, the 1992 thriller starring late rapper Tupac Shakur. And given that we kick off by playing tracks and a clip from the film, we should warn you that there's inevitably a fair bit of choice language in this episode ...

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0:00.0

We've already spoken to one legendary British producer on this show in the shape of Stephen Woolley.

0:16.0

With such good fun, we thought we'd have another goal this time with the super charming and talented David Heyman.

0:22.6

Like Stephen, David C.V. is enviable, as well as producing all of the Harry Potter films and spin-off Fantastic Beast.

0:30.6

He's also the man behind The Light Between Oceans, Testament of Youth and Gravity, among many, many other other celebrated movies and as we'll discover music

0:40.7

very much falls under his remit I'm Edith Bowman and you're listening to Soundtracking

0:48.0

the podcast in which we speak to key figures from the worlds of film and television about the

0:53.1

sounds of the screen.

0:55.0

The list of composers David has worked with is mighty impressive from John Williams and James

1:00.2

Newton Howard to Stephen Price, Max Wichter and Dario Mayanelli, who scored his latest project

1:07.0

The Delightful Paddington 2. Indeed, it's one of Dario's cues from Paddington that you can hear playing now.

1:17.6

He also loves hip-hop, which informed his first movie as a producer, Juice, the 1992 thriller starring late rapper Tupac Shakur.

1:31.3

And given that we kick off by playing tracks and a clip from the film, I should warn you that there's inevitably a fair bit of choice language in this episode.

1:51.8

Before we talk about Paddington and gravity and Testament of Youth and Light Between the Oceans and all sorts, which we've had a lot of your directors on the show as well.

1:55.5

I'm going to go way back because you're a big hip-hop fan.

1:58.3

I am a big hip-hop.

2:00.2

I was and am. I was a method producer.

2:02.6

I used to go around.

2:03.7

The first film I produced was Juice.

2:05.8

And you see me now in my jacket.

2:08.6

It's a costume, it's fine.

2:09.8

Exactly.

2:10.6

It's a thin veneer.

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