The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo sat down with director Lee Isaac Chung, editor Harry Yoon and composer Emile Mosseri to discuss their A24 film,Minari, in aTHRPresents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
Mosseri was brought in by producer Christina Oh, the two having worked together on The Last Black Man in San Francisco. “It felt like being set up on a date,” he says of meeting Chung for the first time at Last Black Man’s Los Angeles premiere.
After reading theMinari script, Mosseri immediately began to write music, months prior to the film’s production start in Oklahoma. “We knew what we didn’t want it to sound like, but we didn’t know what the sound would end up being,” remembers Mosseri of early conversations about the score.
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