Monocle Radio’s Laura Kramer speaks with Grammy-winning composer Lorne Balfe about his latest project, the spy comedy *Argylle*. Balfe reflects on his impressive career and working with the likes of Michael Bay, Matthew Vaughn and Hans Zimmer. Plus: how The Beatles’ last song, ‘Now and Then’, ended up on his new film. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Monocle Weekly.
I am Laura Kramer and on today's show I speak to the Grammy winning composer, Lauren Balfe.
With a career that spans more than two decades, Lorne has made an undeniable mark on Hollywood working on projects for directors like Michael Bay, Ron Howard and Christopher Nolan combined.
The films that Lauren has crafted music for have brought in more than $9.
Billion at the box office, making him.
One of the most successful British film composers of all time.
He stopped by Midori house to chat to me about his latest project, the spy comedy Argyll, directed by Matthew Vaughn.
And Loren began by telling me about the premise of.
It is an homage, I think, to the movies that I love.
Romancing the Stone was a great example of.
I think this is what Matthew kind of was inspired by these classic movies that had fun and action and comedy and romance and Argyle really is.
Cinema's there to escape.
And, and this is the movie that I think you get where you, you get introduced to a character, Ellie Conway, where you don't really know where she belongs and then something happens and the plot changes and there's lots of surprises in it, but it's a, it's a romance film, it's an action movie and it's, it's the type of film that I want to go to the cinema to see.
I think you're right.
And Matthew Vaughn, the director is known for this.
Yes, he does this so well.
And you have a relationship going back with him quite a few years.
Work in the past.
Do you have a sort of shorthand at this point in how you approach your composition?
How does that work?