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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Anne Hathaway Mined This Pop Icon’s Concerts to Create Mother Mary · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When you want to make a movie about a mega
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  Speaker 2: pop star as believable as possible, referencing the work of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest pop star in the galaxy is a solid
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  Speaker 2: place to start.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what director David Lowry and Anne Hathaway
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  Speaker 1: did for their new film Mother Mary, where Ann plays
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  Speaker 1: a pop diva of the same name.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they basically relied on Taylor's concert movie from Reputation
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  Speaker 3: Tour as their number one piece of source material.
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  Speaker 2: He tells a Hollywood reporter, her Reputation movie is truly phenomenal,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best concert films ever shot. And you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't believe the amount of times they either watched it
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  Speaker 2: or just talked about Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: And they also used it to figure out how they'd
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  Speaker 1: believably recreate a huge stadium tour on an indie movie budget.
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  Speaker 2: So the director hyper analyzed three songs from the movie
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  Speaker 2: that spoke to him and would ask would it be
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  Speaker 2: cheaper to do this moment on set or in its
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  Speaker 2: post production?
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  Speaker 3: And I actually love that Anne and the director even
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  Speaker 3: went to Taylor's Aras tour together while filming, because they
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  Speaker 3: admitted that they bowed at her feet of creativity.
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  Speaker 2: Mother Mary is out everywhere in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty fourth that's direct from Hollywood,