Fennell came in with a playlist of songs she had listened to while writing the project, largely built around recognizable pop songs, and Jacobs worked with her to find a way to replicate the feeling of what she was going for. One final component of the process: Since this was a Sundance movie in 2020, they had to put it all together on the cheap. In Promising Young Woman, we see Carey Mulligan’s Cassie play out a quest for revenge through the prism of what’s typically dismissed as girly escapism. Jacobs compared the process of putting together the soundtrack for Promising Young Woman to that of making Little Miss Sunshine, another film she had worked on as a supervisor, where the tone and color of what you see onscreen belies the darkness of what is transpiring. “She kept saying, ‘“Stars Are Blind” is one of my favorite songs, seriously!’” “I really appreciated someone that can appreciate that there’s value in great pop songs, rather than being like, ‘I’m too hip and cliché,’” Jacobs told Vulture. But when Jacobs, a veteran music supervisor who worked on Big Little Lies and I, Tonya, met with director Emerald Fennell, the filmmaker made clear her plan for the movie to involve a lot of pop songs, including and especially one classic by Paris Hilton, “Stars Are Blind,” which was a key part of Fennell’s original script. When Susan Jacobs read the script for Promising Young Woman, she imagined something much darker than the pink-and-green, candy-coated thriller that the movie eventually became. When he doesn’t appreciate Paris Hilton’s music career.
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