Anne Hathaway lifts lid on Jack Antonoff collaboration: “He just kept giving me notes”
Anne Hathaway has opened up about her collaboration with producer and musician Jack Antonoff on the new David Lowery movie, Mother Mary.
Hathaway, who has a stacked calendar of releases this year, stars as the titular character in Lowery’s latest release, in which she plays a pop star who is facing an emotional crisis. Panicked, she reconnects with her former friend, played by Michaela Coel, to prepare for her comeback in a surreal ghost tale.
In a new interview with Discussing Film, the 43-year-old explained how the experience on set with coveted producer Antonoff differed from her previous work in musical theatre. She began, “It’s kind of like asking if a ten-speed bike and a Harley are the same thing.”
She added, “Technically, yeah, it’s the same genus, but the specifics are completely different, and I had to learn how to ride a Harley, you know, the intricacies of the voice to the microphone.”
Hathaway continued, “It’s not something I’d ever really gotten to play around with, and that took a while for me to wrap my head around, but I had an amazing guide in Jack Antonoff.”
The pair worked on the lead single from the movie, titled ‘Burial’, featured in the soundtrack Mother Mary: Greatest Hits, which was released in March 2020. However, Hathaway revealed that the finished product took years to make.
“He just kept giving me notes,” she revealed. “We would go in and record, and then I would get to go meditate on what it was that Jack was talking about, slowly inch by inch, year by year, we got closer until finally the music’s what you listen to.”
Far Out gave Mother Mary a glowing four-and-a-half star review, observing, “What’s most remarkable is that, in all of its thoughtful provocation, Mother Mary is still a visceral, exciting sequence that it is impossible to look away from. It’s rare that there’s a piece of filmmaking that feels completely distinct from its influences and genuinely takes the form of something unprecedented.”
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