When speaking about how the filmmaker acquired on board, the actress stated her husband, the lead singer of Mumford & Sons, advised her: "We actually want a video, and I simply had this concept."
Steven Spielberg, one in all Hollywood’s most well-known filmmakers and producers, has had a busy yr with the discharge of Jurassic World: Dominion and The Fabelmans, however making his debut as a music video director was in all probability not initially within the plans.
Throughout a Monday interview on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, actress Carey Mulligan defined how her husband, Marcus Mumford, and Spielberg teamed up to create the music video for his music “Cannibal.” Because it turned out, the lead singer of Mumford & Sons wanted assist with the music’s video earlier than the discharge of his solo album Self-Titled.
Earlier this yr, Mulligan was engaged on Maestro with Bradley Cooper on the time, with Spielberg government producing the movie. The actress stated she beforehand realized Spielberg’s spouse, Kate Capshaw, is a Mumford & Sons fan and despatched her Mumford’s newest album.
“Not lengthy after that, we acquired a video of Steven and Kate dancing of their kitchen to one of many songs,” Mulligan says. ”And it was so pretty they usually had been so supportive and so candy.”
Months later, the Nice Gatsby actress advised Kimmel she was on set, in a make-up bus, when her husband — frantic about getting the music video carried out — known as with an fascinating thought.
“He says, ‘We actually want a video, and I simply had this concept, and would it not be mad if like … would it not be actually impolite if we requested Steven?’ And I used to be like, ‘Steven — sorry, sorry, Steven Spielberg?’” Mulligan explains.
She ended up asking the filmmaker in July, who agreed to direct the video, saying, “They [Mumford and Spielberg] acquired on the telephone after which the following day, they had been scouting places.”
Throughout the interview, Kimmel held up a photograph of Spielberg making the video with Mumford. The director will be seen holding an iPhone whereas on a rolling workplace chair, filming the singer.
“The message is, if in case you have a loopy thought, categorical it…. Observe by with that,” the late-night speak present host responded.
Mulligan’s newest movie, She Stated, is at present in theaters.
Watch Mumford’s music video for “Cannibal” beneath.