Songwriters Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice Talk Song One — collider.com

From writer/director Kate Barker-Froyland, Song One tells a beautiful story about how music connects and transforms people.  Henry (Ben Rosenfield) is trying to become a musician and, when tragedy strikes, his sister Franny (Anne Hathaway) turns to his music, as well as the music of James Forester (Johnny Flynn) that inspired him, to discover the artist and person that he is. At the film’s press day, singer/songwriters Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how they came to write the music for the film, how quickly they decided that they wanted to get involved, the collaborative process with the filmmakers, the challenges in writing for someone else and always remembering that it has to come from their point of view, how many songs they wrote versus how many actually made it into the film, how this experience has changed the way they work now, what it’s like to be a singer/songwriter in the music business today, and that they’ve already finished work on another film.

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