Sinners star Jack O’Connell reveals how haunting scene brought him back to his roots

Jack O'Connell reveals how he tapped into his roots for powerful Sinners sceneThe Independent

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00:00Was it the Wild Mountain Time, the song as well?

00:03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, those two scenes, Goosebumps, yeah, how do you prepare to sing something like that?

00:14Listen, the initial, when I initially read the script, it blew my mind that this type of music would be featuring in a film of this size.

00:26With the gift of making music so true.

00:30It can conjure spirits from the past and the future.

00:35This gift can bring fame and fortune.

00:38Well, somebody take me, here you are.

00:44But it also can pierce the veil between life and death.

00:51But I was like, listen, I've grown up with this music.

00:54It's a pastime, belting these tunes out.

00:57It appears often times in the pub.

01:00So I was like, do you know what?

01:02They've come to the right man.

01:03I'm going to lean into this.

01:06I just think the soundtrack was really beautiful.

01:08Like the blues and trad music.

01:10Yes.

01:10That just meshed really well.

01:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:13That was my initial.

01:14It tells a story as well.

01:16A real melting pot.

01:17Yeah.

01:17An amazing period in the human migration out to America and the Irish involvement in that

01:26was, I felt, very fortuitous to be able to portray that.

01:30You don't need no saving.

01:32Yes, you do.

01:33And you are?

01:35I am.

01:38Your way out.

01:42Don't care.

01:44He's all better now.

01:45Yes, I lied to you.