Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, we return to our conversation with musician and actor Alana Haim!
We first sat with Alana around her on-screen debut in the film Licorice Pizza, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Making her acting debut, Alana shares the serendipitous backstory that led to the project (6:00), the “7th grade forever theory” that helped her get inside the character of Alana Kane (13:17), a high school house party where she baked cake and fell in love (17:30), and the fortuitous afternoon she met future co-star Cooper Hoffman (23:23).
In the back half, we talk about the early days of HAIM (30:33) and how art helps transcend our own limitations (36:50), culminating in the night Alana drove a six-wheeler truck up (and down) the pitch black hills of the San Fernando Valley (35:55), as co-star Bradley Cooper rode shotgun. We also discuss the One More HAIM tour (39:08), the song she was most excited to perform from Women in Music Pt. III, and what she hopes for in the decade to come (41:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigo, so welcome to our conversation with musician and actor Alana Haim. |
| 0:48.7 | I sat with Alana around her on-screen debut in the film Liquorish Pizza directed by the great Paul Thomas |
| 0:55.8 | Anderson. In it Alana plays Alana Kane, a rudderless 25-year-old living |
| 1:01.9 | with her parents who works part-time as a photo assistant |
| 1:05.3 | in the San Fernando Valley, circa 1973. |
| 1:09.9 | In the nearly two years since that breakout performance, Alana has been busy on tour with her |
| 1:15.2 | sisters, Danielle and Esti, the three of whom make up the rock band, Hyam. |
| 1:21.3 | If you haven't listened to their latest record, Women in Music Part 3, which if you're listening to this right now, you definitely have. |
| 1:30.0 | But if you haven't, you can hear it at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your music. |
| 1:35.7 | Of course, this past Sunday we sat with Esti to celebrate her latest work as a composer |
| 1:41.5 | for the Netflix original film, you are so not invited to my |
| 1:45.6 | Bot Mitsva. If you haven't listened to that talk, it really is one of my favorites |
| 1:50.4 | from this past summer. You can do so of course wherever you are listening to this |
| 1:55.2 | right now. As for today I want to replay our talk with Alana which charts her |
| 2:01.2 | upbringing in the valley, her 13 going on 30 theory, and the thrill of performing |
| 2:07.0 | alongside her sister's post-pandemic. |
| 2:11.0 | That's all coming up after the break with our guest, Alana Haya. Enjoy. The You're going to be here. Let's do a quick test of you. What do you have for breakfast? I didn't eat breakfast. |
| 2:57.0 | I know I'm realizing that I didn't need breakfast. I had coffee, coffee for breakfast. |
| 3:01.0 | Okay, you had a cookie, it's fine. And I had a cookie. You're going to be great. Okay, we're definitely not going to put this in there. |
| 3:06.0 | Alana Hheim. Hi. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I'm really happy to be here. I'm very excited. You came all the way out to Highland Park. |
| 3:15.3 | I did I love Highland Park. I live in on the east side. This is just a hop skip and a jump. |
| 3:20.0 | No one ever says that when they come here. It's always like a big journey for everyone. |
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