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opened in London’s West End in 1981, one of the earliest audience members was an 8-year-old Tom Hooper. He remembers “being utterly entranced and captivated and blown away” by the piece, which is based on T.S. Eliot’s, a collection of poems, published in 1939, that Eliot had originally written for his godchildren.
The project had its genesis seven years ago when Hooper was just finishing his Academy Award–winning adaptation of“I’d learned so much about the form of musicals from that, and was thinking about what else had not been made into a film,” he recalls. “And I immediately thought of.” Hooper knew that Steven Spielberg had once optioned it. “I wondered if he’d been daunted,” he tells me, “but the march of technology has opened a portal into the way we can make it possible.
“The most exciting thing is to discover people’s capacity to be talented in areas they are not trained in or known in,” says Hooper. “If I hadn’t asked them to audition, they might not even have known they have these skills.” Idris Elba, who plays Macavity,“ was thrilled to be singing and dancing with Taylor Swift,” and Hayward reveals herself to be an instinctive onscreen actress, with a voice as elegant and delicate as her persona.
“Jennifer is such a gifted dream person,” says Hooper. “Her voice has such emotion that when she sings ‘Memory’ she makes people cry.” The process, as Hudson recalls, was physically exhausting. “I sang “Memory” 35 or 36 times, for two days straight,” she says.
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