00:00Part of the joy, at least for me, was taking these songs that were standards and trying
00:05to find a way that it felt like they were specific to the characters, that it was the
00:11only way that the characters could express themselves were through these particular songs
00:15sung in this way.
00:17And that was part of what was, I think, an interesting point for us because initially
00:23we started off with some references where, you know, I had Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis
00:30Jr. and these, you know, legends, and I think we started kind of trying to emulate that
00:40sound, at least I did, before we realized, like, wait a second, this is not, this is
00:45not who Arthur is, it might be who Joker wants to be.
00:48You know, I think the way that we approached music in this film was very special and extremely
00:54nuanced.
00:55I wouldn't necessarily say that this is actually a musical in a lot of ways, it's very different.
01:02The way that music is used is to really give the characters a way to express what they
01:07need to say because the scene and just the dialogue is not enough.
01:12And we worked really hard also on the way that we sang, and for me it was a lot about
01:20kind of unlearning technique and forgetting how to breathe and allowing the song to completely
01:27come out of the character and, you know, like Todd said, you know, he always felt like Arthur
01:34had music inside of him, and I think I just, for me I really wanted to help execute Todd's
01:41vision for what this could be with music.
01:44It feels right, it feels correct to be back in Venice.
01:47It felt like the logical launching off point for us for this second film.
01:54We have a very strong feeling towards Venice and what happened last time, not just obviously
01:59winning the festival, but just the way the film was treated.
02:05But I will say on this one, I'm a little more nervous and I think it's a lot easier to come
02:10in to something as the insurgent as opposed to coming in as the incumbent.
02:16And so there's a lot more expectations on a second film, and so, yeah, there's definitely
02:20a sense of more nervousness than I had with the first one.
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