‘Music’ is the movie Sia made her directorial and screenwriter debut with, but did you know there’s a curious anecdote about how she approached and convinced Leslie Odom Jr. to join the cast?
Sia’s career within the music industry has led her to be recognized around the world; Today it is difficult that someone has not heard even a single song by the Australian songwriter, who recently expanded her artistic capacity and has debuted as a director and screenwriter on the big screen with Music, which has reached theaters in Mexico as part of the Cinépolis + QUE CINE content range. Behind this production there is a curious anecdote about the method he used to approach and convince Leslie Odom Jr. to join his cast.
If you are a follower of Sia you can remember Leslie Odom Jr. in the music clip of the song “Together”, in which Kate Hudson He also made an appearance. This same team met again to bring the autobiographical story of the composer to rooms in some parts of the worldEven Hudson decided to shave his head completely.
The first contact thanks to the musical side allowed Sia to resume communication with Odom Jr. in a peculiar way: a direct message through social networks, as simple as that. There was no formal process between representatives or offices, only a couple of acquaintances who shared the same vision: “This is how you get me. What’s so weird about that? I am easy like Sunday morning. People asked me after Hamilton, What is your dream role? And I say, to be honest, I just played it! Cinema was an important space for me because before I couldn’t break down those doors in movies or music. So that’s why my career has focused on film and music since Hamilton“Said the protagonist of Hamilton or One Night in Miami and added:
I got a director message from Sia. We had coffee and he was already in a movie.
Leslie Odom Jr. asked Sia to reconsider her choice by including him in the cast, he was unsure of the character.
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Sia’s bond with Odom made things easier with the help of a couple of cups of coffee, but the key point of this reunion was the personal moment the actor was going through, finally making a name for himself in the entertainment industry today. it’s really complicated, but the newcomer filmmaker had the near-perfect offer that would help Leslie find a career path.
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Kate Hudson decided to shave her entire hair to star in ‘Music’.
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“We were having coffee in West Hollywood,” revealed the actor who also participated in Harriet and Murder on the Orient Express: “She told me all about this movie, Music, on which she had been working for years, the autobiographical elements of it, and how personal it was to her. At the time, I was looking to become a musician and artist who could make pop music and was interested in trying to figure out how to make use of myself in film..”
Sia offered me offered both, with only one movie, so I was too good to pass up.
Sia had already worked with Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr., it was for her music clip for the song “Together.”
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However, at first the experienced actor was not sure if he would be able to take on the role of Ebo, especially when Sia began to describe the background of the character, this led to the actor to ask Sia to reconsider her decision, but she was very clear about the direction of her film and the people she needed to tell it: “He told me he was a West African, an HIV positive boxer. And I told him that you were wrong. But she was adamant. And I promise you that I told him more than once: ‘Sia, I really think you can find someone more suitable for this than me.’ She was like, ‘No, no, you’re the one I want.’ So I trusted Sia. And I decided to do everything I could to catch the vision, “said Leslie Odom Jr., who was also on The Many Saints of Newark.
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