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'I Saw The TV Glow' Director Talks Getting Its Phoebe Bridgers Cameo, And Who She Approached First For Banger ‘Teen Angst’ Soundtrack
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11/06/2025
Interview with Jane Schoenbrun and Justice Smith
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Curious about the story behind this Claw Machine song,
00:03
incredible sequence with Phoebe Bridgers and Sloppy Jane.
00:06
I was curious, where in the process did you hear it the first time?
00:10
Before we shot the film, I had written it into the script with fake lyrics.
00:16
And I just knew that I really wanted us to kind of cut into this club
00:21
right around the halfway point of the movie.
00:24
And I kind of had this idea of the song as a texture that brings you to this new space
00:31
at this very crucial moment in the film when Maddie and Owen have reconnected.
00:35
And I knew that that was where the titular line would be.
00:39
I knew that the first line of that song had to be, I saw the TV glow.
00:43
Yeah, and was a huge fan of Phoebe's and of Hayley's and got in touch with them
00:50
and kind of pitched them on it.
00:51
And I made them a playlist called Interior Goth Club of, you know,
00:56
like the kinds of like teen angst songs that I had imagined.
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And Hayley, yeah, just started sending me voicemails of Claw Machine.
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And it was really like kind of all there from the very beginning in this,
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you know, even though I think it was just like her on piano,
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it was still this like incredibly orchestral.
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Yeah, I remember like listening to demos of it with crew,
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like when we were on Location Scouts.
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I remember my DP, Eric, going, this is a hit.
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And I was just like, yeah, I agree.
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And, you know, you have so many amazing people on the album.
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I was curious, like, who did you, do you remember who you reached out first?
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Like, I need this person on this movie.
01:36
Great question.
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Well, I was working with Alex from the very beginning on the score
01:40
because he was my composer on my last film.
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And I just, I want to work with him anytime he wants to work with me.
01:46
He's a genius.
01:47
I think the first person, because I had wanted to meet an artist named Francis Quinlan,
01:53
who's in a band called Hopalong, just was a huge fan of that band for a long, long time.
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And I knew that them and Alex were friends.
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And so I think early on, I just asked Alex for an intro to Francis.
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And a few of the other artists I had, like, crossed paths with in various iterations.
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I remember Draft Majesty was another early one where I was like, that's the vibe of the movie.
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And it was also just a collaboration with A24, you know, really working with them
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and, like, brainstorming artists that we both thought would be really exciting.
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So it kind of happened organically.
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