Glen Hansard
speaker
316 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Glen Hansard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then John kind of put to me, he said, look, no one's going to sing these songs.
like you do, because you wrote them.
He says, I'm forced into the choice of having, you know, two actors who can probably half sing or two musicians who can half act.
And he says, I'd rather, if it's a musical film, I'd rather have two musicians who can half act and I'll get a performance out of you.
And he says, as long as the music's convincing, I think people are going to believe it.
So that was kind of his gamble.
Let's hear another song that you co-wrote together for once.
And this is If You Want Me.
And Glenn, why don't you describe how this song is used in the film?
Well, there was one... John wanted to have one song in the film that was basically a throwback or a salute to the classic musical.
We decided a couple of things in the beginning.
We said, whenever there's a song in this film, let's have the entire song.
And also, whenever there's a song in this film, let's have it be absolutely live in the moment.
You're playing the song in front of them so that there isn't this whole idea of playback and, you know, they need mime.
So the idea was...
that Mar's character, the batteries would go in her CD player and that she would basically sing over music that I would have supposedly written.
And it was going to be, you know, John wanted basically just to do a singing in the rain moment where it was a real musical moment.
And so we hired a crane and basically we just walked up the street with Mar that whole evening.
And I think it really does work in the film.
But that is the one moment where we're miming.
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