I mean, Iwouldhave been…
I mean, I didn’t know what I would do if we didn’t get it.
I was truly thinking, I will have to move to a hut in Tahiti.
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“I’m certainly writing in a style that you don’t quite hear anymore.
And finally I actuallywasscoring a Mary Poppins movie.”
Platt says the musicians' pure love of the 1964 filmmade them the clear frontrunners for the job.
His and Scott’s craftsmanship, and that emotional connection, was undeniable to us."
That’s what it is.
It’s just a big fing thank you letter to all of them."
I learned a bunch.
It was really fun just watching them go through and craft that.")
Shaiman points out, “Her courage was contagious or her confidence, I should say.
Can you imagine stepping into this role?
One of the most iconic matches of actress and role in movie history!
She just had such confidence.”
Shaiman certainly inherited some of that confidence, too, in composing a colossal new score for the movie.
“Three weeks of scoring.
Nowadays, a movie maybe has four days.
And the responsibility of it was big, and then just the logistics!
It was just huge, and the orchestra was huge and big and full of virtuosic brilliant musicians.”
But you have to push that fear aside, or use it as energy.
That’s how I see it."
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