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Acclaimed International photographer Jason Bell shot the first ever Vanity Fair Hollywood issue short film celebrating the ascendance of British acting within the U.S film industry.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Clive Owen, Dame Judi Dench, Eddie Redmayne, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Kate Winslet, Jack O’Connell, Jeremy Irons, Keira Knightley, Michael Caine, Michelle Dockery, Orlando Bloom, Ralph Fiennes, Sam Claflin, Timothy Spall and Tom Hiddleston are amongst the many British actors currently making an impact in Hollywood.

This was the first time a British photographer had ever shot the entire Hollywood portfolio.

MassiveMusic London was invited to do the music supervision on the three films that accompany the Hollywood edition of the magazine, the first time film content accompanied the edition.

Reinforcing the British theme through music really helped pull everything together and we looked for music that would support the project’s overall narrative. These are three powerful films which evoke a real British feeling but they’ve also got a fantastic tongue-in-cheek element to them so we looked at them in that sense too. All three films are cohesive but they also posed differing routes musically, so we approached them as three mini projects, each specific in what they’re trying to say then ensured that they worked together too.