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How Saoirse Ronan Became the Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ in Their First Music Video for the Song

“I was totally daunted,” Mike Mills says of directing the song’s first-ever video. “How do you make a video for my art heroes?”

Mills, a lifelong Talking Heads fan whose film 20th Century Women featured a subplot about the band, pitched his idea to the four members over a Zoom tribunal. Mills knew that he needed a “virtuosic actor” to handle the demands of his script, which involved 13 different daily loops with unique emotional prompts for each one. There were few people I thought of who could handle it.” Coincidentally, Mills and Ronan had established a friendly rapport when he was developing “Psycho Killer,” the timing of which encouraged him to see if she was a Talking Heads fan.

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