On Music

Golden Globe nominee Bradley Cooper stunned the audience at the Venice Film Festival with his directorial debut, a remake of A Star Is Born. Besides guiding Lady Gaga on a rock ‘n roll stage, Bradley plays the part of a down and out rock star consumed by pills and alcohol, who finds redemption in his love for music.

Golden Globe winner - and Guatemala-born- Oscar Isaac debuts this week as a producer with the thrilling dramatic account of the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the SS commander who masterminded the brutal extermination of six million Jews during World War II, The film, Operation Finale,  recounts the Argentinian capture from the POV of Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Isaac) who convinced Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) to sign his release from Argentina to stand trial in Israel. Oscar Isaac is an accomplished musician - his love for music was shown in the Cohen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

Puerto Rico star and Golden Globe winner Benicio Del Toro has recently spent seven months with director Ben Stiller, working on a nine-episode limited series that recounts the well-publicized escape from the high-security prison of Dannemora of two inmates helped by a female prison worker. Del Toro is famous for choosing tough and deep roles.

Golden Globe winner for her amazing performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With it Angela Bassett is very much in love with music as a universal language: “We can be from different parts of the world and just hear a strain of music and it can make us both weep” , she told us as we met for her role in TV series 9-1-1 We agreed that it might very well be the language of the soul and when I asked her how much it intersect with her love for acting, she said: “I have used it often, doing a play or a particular character I'll listen to certain songs or instrumentals and they really hit my spirit or soul and they just take you there emotionally.   Music is able to do that in a way sometimes just the straight word on the page might not be able to, but it compliments it.

In the morning before the Los Angeles Premiere of the Disney film Christopher Robin  we met Golden Globe winner Ewan McGregor, the star of the movie, a stylish actor born in Scotland and now living in California. During the interview he mentioned music and how much it has affected his life growing up.

Golden Globe Nominee Rami Malek, soon will be on the world’s screens as Freddie Mercury, the iconic singer of the English band Queen. Malek’s love for music and acting was put to the test and when we met for a long lead interview on the movie - appropriately titled Bohemian Rhapsody - we asked Rami how these two passions and playing the mercurial singer changed his world.

Golden Globe winner and Cecil B. deMille recipient Denzel Washington has proven himself to be an amazing actor and director.

When we recently met Golden Globe winner Toni Collette for the release of two of her movies, Hereditary and Hearts Beat Loud, we made sure that she knew how much we loved her singing voice when she performs a sweet karaoke in Hearts. “Thank you.

Golden Globe winner Sandra Bullock plays Danny Ocean’s (George Clooney) sister in Ocean’s 8  the film that is becoming an international hit. Her mother was a German opera singer and we asked her if music helped her also as an actress.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Amy Adams trained as a ballerina but, at 18, found musical theater more to her liking. Music is in her blood - she had her breakthrough as a Disney Princess in the musical Enchanted.