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How Saleka Shyamalan Wrote Music as Her Character Lady Raven in the New Thriller, ‘Trap’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Selika Shamalan plays the pop star Lady Raven in her
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  Speaker 2: dad m Night Shamalan's new movie Trap, and also sang
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  Speaker 2: and wrote all of the characters music. And While Selika
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  Speaker 2: is an accomplished artist in her own right and has
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  Speaker 2: made plenty of her own music in the past, she
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  Speaker 2: absolutely loved the process of doing it for a film character,
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  Speaker 2: particularly because of the musical themes It allowed her to
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  Speaker 2: explore that she might never have considered on her own.
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  Speaker 3: Because of the movie's content and it being very dark.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of got to have fun with that dark side
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  Speaker 3: of it in terms of the production and the lyrics
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  Speaker 3: and just be playful with like dark themes and dark emotions,
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  Speaker 3: but in a way that makes you want to dance.
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  Speaker 2: The music might make you want to dance, but the
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  Speaker 2: movie will have you on the edge of your seat.
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  Speaker 2: Trap is in theaters Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.