Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild / Speed Racer) has certainly kept busy over the years choosing a bevy of interesting genre roles and projects, from William Friedkin’s psychotic bloodbath Killer Joe opposite Matthew McConaughey, to non trad indie flicks like 2018’s mysterious Freaks or horror director Ivan Kavanagh’s gothic western Never Grow Old.
Most recently the world saw him on screen playing Sharon Tate’s ex, Jay Sebring, alongside Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
“Believe it or not, I was on Facebook and I got a Facebook message from this account that’s like, this is Quentin Tarantino,” he explains. “Him and Eli Roth had watched the Autopsy of Jane Doe together and Quentin just loved it. He saw it and was like, that’s my Jay.”
During the latest episode of the Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast, Emile reflects on Autopsy, the tremendous 2016 creeper sculpted by Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark director, Andre Ovredal.
“He really wanted to do this script which was very scary, by Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg. To the point where I couldn’t even rehearse it at home alone.”
Upcoming projects from Hirsch include the just announced Midnight In The Switchgrass, where he will play a Florida State officer teaming up with two FBI agents (Megan Fox and Bruce Willis) to investigate a string of unsolved murders, the demonic cult flick Son, and a return to his starring role in the Emmy winning, animated world of Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters.
“There’s a whole movie that they’re making now that I am still recording on. It’s very cool. Guillermo’s really excited about it and I’m honored to be a part of it. His vision is amazing.”
The actor is also a purveyor of neon-soaked, sci fi inspired music. Emile and his collaborator Mathieu Carratier released MNEMONIC, a 15 song album at the tail end of this past year by their project known simply as HIRSCH.
“Mathieu, I had already known for years,” Emile explains. “He had made a song in (the Luc Besson film) Valerian. The end song “A Million On My Soul” which I friggin’ LOVED. I told Mat how much I loved it and then Mathieu was like, maybe we should try a song.”
“…and then we started to work together and we kind of had a very simpatico drive to do things. Very similar tastes. We ended up just going for a year straight.”
HIRSCH is entirely DIY, consisting of Emile and Mat, a computer and no record label. Their cinematic soundscapes have been compared to Kavinsky’s work on the Drive soundtrack and a handful of them have already made Spotify’s revered, “New Alt” playlist.
“We wanted to do something that you could listen to after listening to Fight Club,” Mat says.
When asked about taking their music to a live audience, Carratier responds, “I feel like right now we are enjoying making it so much. This week we are making three songs. When you have the juice, you know, the inspiration, you kind of want to ride it until you are completely empty and you’re like yeah, maybe let’s do a show.”
Until then you can check out the track The Year 2000, the video for Love Is Real co-starring Kate Bosworth, and their new single Casual Animal after the jump.
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