This story about “The Banshees of Inisherin“ composer Carter Burwell first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
To Carter Burwell, it made perfect sense. He’d just finished reading the script to Martin McDonagh’s black comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and his thoughts were pretty clear.
“It’s a script about two guys on a small island off the coast of Ireland during the Irish Civil War,” he said. “And I said to Martin, ‘Is there any reason the music wouldn’t in some way be Irish?”
Well, yeah, there was a reason. “He just hated that idea,” Burwell said, laughing.