On Their Exhilarating New Album Pirouette, Model/Actriz Take Their Biggest Swing Yet
Haden: I think there was a lot of room for interpretation with the lyrics on Dogsbody, and one of my biggest fears or anxieties is being misunderstood and misinterpreted. I am proud of that writing, but I knew that I needed to, for my own sake, be more transparent about what the songs were about. It really was a direct response to Dogsbody. I think the record is basically what I learned from the first album, because those were most of the new experiences that I was getting in those two years—and a lot of those that related to the vision of what I saw for myself as a kid. I'm both speaking to me as a child, and thinking about the kind of person I am now. What would my younger self think of that person?
Where did the title Pirouette come from? It captures the energy of the record so brilliantly.
Haden: What drew me to the word was that dichotomy of being on the verge of falling out of balance, but needing an incredible amount of skill to maintain your posture, like a ballerina. There's something both delicate and athletic about it, which is our process of making things.
Having worked together as a band for so many years now, do you feel that sense of being in sync, almost like a dance ensemble? Listening to the record and seeing how you perform, it appears that way…
Shapiro: When it's working, for sure. Nothing's ever perfect, though, and we're not necessarily striving for something perfect. But I do think there's a common theme of elegant machinery or something that comes in. It sounds like a hot, dancing robot.
Jack Wetmore: I think there's a delicateness to the word pirouette that doesn't give away the athleticism and coordination behind it. And I think we've constantly been trying to bring a delicateness and beauty to heavy music, so the word pirouette feels like the thesis in a lot of ways.
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She's very funny [too], so she knows where the jokes are and she's one of the great reactors." This was Andrews' first Disney movie since Mary Poppins. "The magic she gave to us as little girls, she continues to give to other generations," Debra Martin Chase said in an interview for the DVD extras. Scarlett Johansson, January Jones, and Emmy Rossum were some of the actors considered for the role of Mia Thermopolis. Juliette Lewis, Reese Witherspoon, Claire Danes, and more also reportedly turned down the role. Casting director Donna Morong recalled to Cosmopolitan that Anne was always "on [their] radar" but she wasn't immediately available to star in the movie. While casting the role of Mia Thermopolis, producer Debra Martin Chase said she kept saying they needed to find "the next Audrey Hepburn." Anne Hathaway only auditioned once for The Princess Diaries, with Garry Marshall and producers immediately falling in love with her. 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