High Fidelity drops the needle on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.
What would your favorite music artist have to do before you delete them from your Spotify playlist?
That question is at the center of a heated argument early on inZoe Kravitz’s new Hulu seriesHigh Fidelity.
Credit: Phillip Caruso/Hulu
“We have a conversation on the show aboutMichael JacksonandKanye.
“But I think it is!
Kravitz tells EW she hand-crafted the playlist to fit the tone of the show.
Rob tells the crowd at full attention.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I was really surprised you guys got the rights to so many great songs.
Were there any songs on the soundtrack that you were especially happy ended up on the show?
As we were writing the show, I was just constantly adding to it.
It kind of became the soundtrack of the show, of the character.
The Ann Peebles song “I Can’t Stand the Rain.”
Paul McCartney and Wings with “Arrow Through Me” was on that playlist.
Prince’s “So Blue.”
Did that connection draw you in?
It felt serendipitous and wonderful.
Those kinds of projects are made less and less now.
And so it was a lovely coincidence.
The soundtrack feels really personal as well.
There’s the idea that if I relate to it, other people will too.
I’ve been Rob.
I feel like we’ve all been Rob or will be Rob again.
There’s those moments where we all really have to stop and question everything.
Blondie’s Debbie Harry has a surprising and sweet role on the show as your conscious.
What was it like to get someone like her on the show and on set?
In the [2000] movie, you have Bruce Springsteen who plays Rob’s mentor in his mind.
There was a question of who was going to play that role now.
Someone who feels like just as exciting and important as Bruce.
Debbie Harry was the first person that we thought of.
We share a manager.
And so it was surprisingly easy.
I think we all kind of thought it was a really long shot.
We sent the script to her.
The response was something along the lines of “Cool, sounds fun!”
[Laughs] She came to set and was so sweet.
She’s a little nervous because you know, she sings.
Acting is different for her.
It was just so human to see her be a little nervous.
She brought so much charisma to it.
High Fidelitydrops the needle on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.
