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Mica Levi (from Micachu and The Shapes) has spoken out on scoring Scarlett Johansson film, 'Under My Skin' saying: "I dreamt the world came out of Scarlett's face".
Arguably the most critically-accaimed film of the year, the film sees Scarlett Johansson star as an alien predator who stalks the streets of Glasgow searching for men to seduce, and Levi, 27, has just won a European Film Award - for Best Composer - for her work.
Speaking to The Guardian she says: “I don’t know what to make of it all,” Levi said. “When I found out I’d won the award, I was in my room reading my emails. It didn’t sink in until I told my friend and she was like, ‘Wow!’ Then we went to the pub to celebrate. I’d have never expected to be winning this.”
On how she came up with the music, the award-winning Levi revealed that drug taking was a reference point for inspiration and that the soundtrack lead to some bizarre dreams.
She says: “I was associating it with rushing, with taking drugs, a foreverness, a euphoric and warm, overwhelming but not complicated, wash,” she said of one particular scene, before joking that “One night, I dreamt the whole of the world came out of Scarlett’s face, like she was vomiting it out of her. When I stopped working on it, I was like, ‘I have to stop dreaming about this’.”
