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How Did Marcus Mumford Convince Stephen Spielberg to Direct the 1st Music Video of His Career? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. None other than Steven
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Speaker 1: Spielberg directed the video for Cannibal, the lead single of
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Speaker 1: Mumford and Sons from Man Marcus Mumford's debut self titled
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Speaker 1: solo album, which, for the record, is the only music
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Speaker 1: video the legendary director has agreed to in his fifty
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Speaker 1: year career. So how did Marcus get Spielberg? He just asked,
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Speaker 1: he tells enemy Stephen and his wife Kate Capshaw had
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Speaker 1: heard my record and wrote me directly in what will
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Speaker 1: be the only review I ever read of the album.
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Speaker 1: So I nervously asked if he wanted to direct its video.
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Speaker 1: It was simply a case of if you don't ask,
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Speaker 1: you don't get. He connected with the music and understood
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Speaker 1: it straight away. He was so sensitive to what the
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Speaker 1: video needed to be. It was super collaborative. Marcus adds
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Speaker 1: the magnitude of it all really crystallized for him when
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Speaker 1: Spielberg was looking at a shot on set and said
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Speaker 1: it reminded him one from Indiana Jones Three. Cannibal is
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Speaker 1: out now, that's direct from Hollywood.