The actor’s musicality helped him land “Baby Driver,” an ambitious passion project from “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” filmmaker Wright that’s filled with syncopated action scenes and car chases galore. ![]() He pulls his laptop out of a backpack and plays a track they cooked up two nights prior, Storch on the keyboards and Elgort singing and producing. ![]() Lately he’s been working with another music producer, Scott Storch, on a couple of EDM-influenced pop tunes he’s planning for a full album. In 2015, after a role in Jason Reitman’s “Men, Women & Children” and between appearances in the second and third “Divergent” blockbusters, Elgort signed with Island Records, home to Fall Out Boy, Elton John, Demi Lovato, and Nick Jonas. “I think that’s what landed me the job,” he says and grins. Seated at the controls of a cozy recording studio in West Hollywood, Elgort, now 23, starts humming the opening notes of the 1977 Motown hit he first learned to play on the piano when he was 12. And in the next draft, I wrote ‘Easy’ into the script.” “That was the thing that really clinched it. “He was great - and he proved, exactly like he said, that he knew all the lyrics,” added Wright. "Baby Driver" star Ansel Elgort on "Easy," by the Commodores “I was so taken aback that a 20-year-old would say that, that in itself made me think that maybe he was right for the part,” says Wright, who filmed Elgort acting out a scene to the song, which eventually became the soundtrack to a memorably moving sequence and the film’s recurring emotional motif. Elgort surprised the director with “Easy,” by the Commodores. ![]() Then Wright asked the “Fault in Our Stars” and “Divergent” actor to name a song he knew by heart. But in his day job as a rising Hollywood star, he hadn’t yet convinced Wright he was right for the role of the soft-spoken, rhythm-obsessed lead of “ Baby Driver,” a music-driven action caper 22 years in the making.Īs Elgort worked in the Silver Lake dance studio of choreographer and Sia collaborator Ryan Heffington, things weren’t totally clicking. He’d been spending his spare time in the studio with Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello, living and breathing the electronic dance jams he makes under his DJ moniker, Ansølo. Ansel Elgort was deep into a club music period when he found himself on the spot during a pivotal audition for director Edgar Wright.
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