This is The Business and I'm Kim Masters.

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Jeff London's music-filled conversation with the married songwriting duo behind Amelia Perez,

Clement Ducol and Camille.

I'm very curious how you became involved.

How did you link up with Jacques O'Diard to work on this film?

And how much of the script was written at the time? Did he just say, I have this crazy idea?

Do you want to jump in with me? Or did he have something that you could look at?

Yeah, that's basically what happened.

Yeah, we met in the end of 2019, and it was a gift because working, as a musician,

working on a film with Jaco Dio is a gift, but working on a musical with Jaco Dio is

such a pleasure for us.

And so Jacques Odiar wanted us to be involved from the very beginning of the

scripts construction uh we had just a treatment at first 20 pages uh treatment so there wasn't any script

yet and um so he wanted us to build the script with him in songs and music.

So in the morning, we would just sit around the table, reading the treatment and

pointing out the scene that could be used for a song.

And then we worked on the music in the afternoon.

And then in the evening, we watched musical.

And everything was linked together,

you know, the music and the script.

So in other words,

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