Composer Daniel Pemberton Interview: The Afterparty & Slow Horses
Over nearly 15 years of work, Daniel Pemberton has quickly become one of the most iconic composers in Hollywood. Initially working on indie horror gems The Awakening and In Fear, Pemberton has risen to stardom with his work on the likes of Steve Jobs and Motherless Brooklyn, for which he earned Golden Globe nods, The Trial of the Chicago 7, which earned him both an Oscar and Globe nod for Best Original Song, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Most recently, Pemberton provided his talents to two Apple TV+ series, The Afterparty and Slow Horses. The former, created by Spider-Verse's Christopher Miller, is a murder mystery comedy about a group of people celebrating their high school reunion, only for one to end up killed and everyone is a suspect. Slow Horses is a spy thriller series centered on a British MI5 officer exiled to an administrative purgatory assignment after a botched training mission, leaving him to endure dull tasks with his colleagues.
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Ahead of both shows being presented to Emmy voters, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with Daniel Pemberton to discuss both The Afterparty and Slow Horses, navigating the various genres of the murder mystery, working with Mick Jagger for the spy thriller and more.
Screen Rant: The Afterparty was an absolute delight, and the way your music goes through so many different genres just flows through it excellently. What was it like crafting the score and all the different tracks for that show?
Daniel Pemberton: The Afterparty was a huge, huge daunting task, because you're doing not just quite a complicated series score, which is the meat of the whole story, but alongside that, you're scoring 10 other shows and a load of other stuff,
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