Meredith Loftus is a Los Angeles-based freelance features writer for Collider. Outside of her work at Collider, she has worked nearly a decade at Paramount as a producer with brands such as Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition. She has bylines with Fandom, Marvelous Geeks, Offscreen Central, and Next Best Picture.
Joel and Ethan Coen explored the folk music scene of the early 1960s, just before Bob Dylan became a star, in their 2013 film, Inside Llewyn Davis. The film follows the titular Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac, through a week of his life as a struggling folk singer. Inside Llewyn Davis is often credited as Oscar Isaac’s breakthrough role, in a film that also includes Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, and Justin Timberlake.
Oscar Isaac's Musical Background Precedes 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Inside Llewyn Davis wasn’t the Coen brothers' first foray with folk music playing an integral role in their film. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen brothers’ take on Homer's Odyssey, where Ulysses Everett McGill escapes a chain gang with two fellow convicts, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson, in order to reunite with his wife and find buried treasure.
For the music in Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers took a different approach. They opted to have each folk song performed in full on set and recorded live. This means yes, Oscar Isaac is really singing live in the film, as well as costars Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver. Beyond his performance for the film, Isaac also helped arrange some of the songs for the film in collaboration with music producer T-Bone Burnett.
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