Drew: Absolutely. Love the soundtrack in the picture, so let me ask, who’s the William Bell fan?
Miguel: (laughs) Ah, William Bell. "Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday". You know what happened? We were shooting that night with the RZA, and I thought he was going to bring a track with him to play that we were going to listen to. And when he got there, he was like, "What song have you got?" And I sort of shat myself and said, "Oh, bloody hell." Me and Jude had been listening to a lot Stax music. Stax soul because we felt that it was very important for Remy to have a redeeming quality and that his quality was that he liked listening to soul music while he did his jobs. So I ran to a trailer and I had a bunch of Stax stuff and I started flipping through songs listening to the first four seconds and then moving on if it didn’t kind of have a hook. And I hit the William Bell track and it was just... "This is the one, this is the one." And I never listened to the whole track before. Then we played that song all through the night again and again and again. And luckily it was a really good song.
Drew: Oh, it’s a great tune. It’s one of those things where when I saw the film, I’m like, "I hope this is the kind of thing where now people go and they find him and they fall in love with his work." Because, man, talk about a song writer and a half...
Miguel: Yeah, fantastic. I got so into soul that the whole thing was covered in soul to begin with and bits of it got taken out but we held onto William Bell. The RZA actually did a remix which is on the soundtrack which is excellent as well. So he came through in the end just a couple of years later on. I’m getting a look that I have to get off the phone, but do you have one last question?
Drew: Obviously this film has an ambitious scope and you talk about it being a lower budget film. If this does well for you, is there something that you have hip-pocketed that you really want to try to get made next?
Miguel: Yeah. There’s a bunch of things I have. I think, to be honest with you, it’s been a very, very long road and just thinking about the next ten days... I want people to see this movie, you know? And then I’m going to deal with all my dirty laundry and everything I haven’t done in the last three years. So I’m kind of stuck in that but I do have a bunch of things brewing but to give anything away would be telling.
Drew: Well, sir, I hope people go see the movie, too. I really enjoyed it. I think it’s a brash film and it’s one of those that when you see that it’s got a studio logo in front of it, you do a double-take. It’s not the typical studio picture and I mean that in the best possible way.
Miguel: Well, thank you. That is taken as a great compliment. Thank you.
