Michael Harte

Thanks, Claire.

How's it going?

Yeah, it is.

You know, that's what we were trying to do.

You know, we wanted to use the music as a way into Kylie as opposed to the other way around where we're using her to

deeply deeply intimate and personal film that that was always our intention from the start and she delivered and you know it goes a long way in a three part series that you have that level of emotional honesty which can be hard to get but you know I kind of spent a long time with her we spent two years making this film and it wasn't long until we kind of connected and that emotional honesty started to flow when we were filming with her but yeah

I would love for that to be true, for me to be able to say Kylie Minogue sought me out.

No, that actually isn't true.

The person who sought me out was the producer, John Batzik.

He's an Oscar winner, a double Oscar winner.

And he had been chipping away at this project for about maybe 10 years, you know.

So he was trying to get Kylie on board as soon as she

that she may want to do it John produced Beckham and I edited it as well with with John but he he kind of had an instinct when he worked with me that I'd be a good fit with Kylie and he mentioned it to her and so um I wasn't even sure myself I remember going to meet her and we were put together in the Chateau Marmont in LA I was uh I was on a different edit on a project called Deaf President and I went to meet her but I definitely I didn't think I'd get the job um

John loved how I worked and how I worked and how I edited and my kind of storytelling sensibilities.

But I still didn't think I'd get the job.

So I went along thinking this would be something cool to tell my mum in Donegal.

And I went to the Shadow of Marmont and had a drink with Katie Minogue.

Maybe I'll get a selfie.

But we, you know what, we really clicked when we were there.

And that's what John was trying to see, if there would be a chemistry between the two of us.