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How ‘The Regime’ Score Reflected Kate Winslet’s Comedic and Chaotic Dictatorship
Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat details scoring 'The Regime' to reflect Kate Winslet's chaotic and comedic dictatorship.
The world of the show, with huge palaces and a country ready to go to war, dictated that the need for a good-sized orchestra to provide the score’s foundation. In addition, Desplat recruited musicians playing the balalaika (a Russian stringed musical instrument) to create a mix of sounds. “I did recap Alexandre’s main theme at the end to join it up with the new material I had written so it felt like a bow had been put on the whole piece.”Helping Heffes inject a new sound into the score is the arrival of Hugh Grant’s former-chancellor-turned-prisoner, Ed Keplinger.
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