'Strange New Worlds' Musical Episode Director on Bringing It to Life
The Big Picture Star Trek's first-ever musical episode has arrived on Paramount+ with Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 9, "Subspace Rhapsody." Epic in both scale and emotion, the heartfelt space romp sees the crew of the USS Enterprise thrust into a musical reality that has them singing their darkest fears and deepest desires. In order to set things right, they have to give their most triumphant performance together, celebrating their connection to each other to save the galaxy.
I'm in this business because I memorized the songbook to Oliver Twist at seven. I was a childhood actor before I became a cinematographer and then did years of music videos. So, by the time I did [The] Flash, it was like, “Oh my god, it's the hybrid of everything I love doing,” but this was like a whole new level.
I love when they first hit the anomaly. You can see it hit through the entire crew. How did you go about setting up how that would translate to screen? DOWNS: I was fortunate that I had two weeks before production started that I was up there just with the choreographer and then the temp tracks of the song. We really got to sort of process the different tone even though they hadn't laid down their version, which I knew was even gonna bring more gravitas to it. You know, Celia’s is such a big power ballad, and wanting to really support that but not wanting to overwhelm it, but they are such a dynamo.
DOWNS: As character is first, as everybody was telling me on the show, and as the song progresses, everybody is expressing vulnerabilities that they can't speak. So, music became a way to really push, give exposition to those things that they couldn't normally speak. But, you know, they were singing it with jazz hands. I mean, with someone like La’an’s alone.
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