Where to watch La La Land (2016)
La La Land is available to stream in AU on Stan and Lionsgate+. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
An aspiring actress and a jazz musician meet while struggling to build careers in Los Angeles. Their romance grows alongside their ambitions, but increasing opportunities bring difficult choices that test whether love and personal dreams can thrive together.
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno, Jessica Rothe, Tom Everett Scott, Josh Pence, J.K. Simmons, Amiée Conn
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Trivia & production notes
- Emma Watson was set to star in La La Land but dropped out to fulfill her commitment to Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast remake, while Ryan Gosling turned down the Beast role to do La La Land instead.
- Emma Stone met director Damien Chazelle in 2014 while performing in Cabaret on Broadway, and he outlined his vision for the film at a Brooklyn diner in New York City.
- Ryan Gosling learned to play piano for his role with no prior experience, and no hand models were used during filming.
- A painful audition scene in the film was inspired by a real incident when Gosling performed an emotional monologue and the casting director took a phone call discussing her lunch plans instead of watching him.
- Director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz first conceived La La Land while attending Harvard University together, exploring the concept through a low-budget musical thesis film called Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
- Chazelle wrote the La La Land screenplay in 2010 when he felt the film industry was out of reach, aiming to ground a traditional musical in realism where dreams don't always work out perfectly.
- Focus Features initially demanded Chazelle change the male lead from a jazz pianist to a rock musician, simplify the opening number, and remove the bittersweet ending, but he refused all alterations.
- No studio was willing to finance an original contemporary musical with no familiar songs until after Whiplash's success at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival gave Chazelle credibility.
- Choreographer Mandy Moore emphasized emotion over technique during rehearsals, an approach Stone credited as key to filming the "A Lovely Night" scene.
- Director Chazelle held Friday night screenings of classical films on the soundstages to inspire his cast and crew, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Singin' in the Rain, Top Hat, and Boogie Nights.
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