What a surreal moment - getting to chat with Thomas Newman and Julia Newman. Whether you're a big film music fan or a casual film goer, chances are that you're familiar with Tom, having been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards (Nick ...See moreWhat a surreal moment - getting to chat with Thomas Newman and Julia Newman. Whether you're a big film music fan or a casual film goer, chances are that you're familiar with Tom, having been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards (Nick accidentally says fourteen...) and scoring projects like The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, 1917, and loads more. Now, Julia is picking up the family's film and tv scoring mantle, and the two of them recently co-scored Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, a dramatization of the Menendez brothers crimes. Nick, Tom, and Julia use the series as a jumping off point for the conversation, regularly referring to and discussing it while also pivoting into broader conversations about collaboration, improvisation and working quickly, the use of theme and repetition, and plenty more.
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