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She kept saying, Stars Are Blind is one of my favorite songs, seriously!
I was like an architect saying, I know you want to build the Taj Mahal, Jacobs said.
It was great because it had sincerity to it.
Nobody was making fun.
Its a long relationship when I can call somebody and go, This director is really smart.
Trust me, its gonna be great, Jacobs said.
While Jacobs wasnt in communication with Hilton herself, it seems that she at leastdid enjoy the mention.
That was something that was on the playlist from the beginning.
When [Emerald Fennell] was shooting that scene, thats what she wanted, Jacobs said.
The way she shot it with crotch shots all over, its hysterical!
It also helped to have Stars Are Blind locked in already.
Paris Hilton coming in helped Charli XCX, she said.
Nobody wants to be the one going out there by themselves.
She teamed up with Capitol Records on the soundtrack, using a number of their lesson-known artists.
Cyns Uh Oh tracks the beginning of Cassies scheme against her former deans daughter.
The song came in really early and stayed.
Then the whole scene got cut a different way, Jacobs said.
Its a lot to give an actress to do!
Especially when youre low budget.
As for the challenge of licensing the song itself, Jacobs had toreach out to its team of songwriters.
It was very tough!
InPromising Young Woman, it underlines the way that men like Lowells character can be so easily forgiven.
Its a martyrdom scene.
There was something about having that pause and break from pop that was just right.
The hard part, as always, came with getting the Rodgers and Hammerstein estate to flush the rights.
I was very worried about getting that because trying to explain that scene was hard, Jacobs said.
We did have some inside help so that get that.
She gets out of her car and breaks his windows with a crowbar.
The classical pieces are really playing to this internal emotion and grander story, Jacobs said of the selection.
It was important to not always stay in pop and have this release.
It is dramatic and she is undoing herself.
How else do you have that moment of reckoning?
I love that Emerald wanted to paint with a really huge, broad brush with that.
