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Saoirse Ronan Goes Feral in Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ Video: Director Mike Mills Says ‘I Don’t Know How She Didn’t Just Shrivel Up at the End’
The director of Talking Heads' 'Psycho Killer' video, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Mills, talks about getting Saoirse Ronan's 'feral' performance.
The video covers 13 days in the very repetitive life of a woman waking up and going to an unspecified job, where she experiences a range of emotions from indifference to sorrow to rage to, finally, a kind of peace — all of these moods going more or less unregistered by the other humans she interacts with. Mills has continued to do select music videos on top of his award-winning feature films since the ’90s, and “98% of them don’t have the band in them,” so the fact that Talking Heads were not about to reunite for the project didn’t represent anything unusual for his m.o. Over the years he’s created videos for Air, Yoko Ono, Blonde Redhead, the Divine Comedy, Beth Orton, Martin Gore, Everything but the Girl and Moby, among others.
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