Kathleen Mackey’s playlist

Kathleen Mackey roughs up superstar Halle Berry in Gothika

Kathleen Mackey plays with the big kids.

The rising scream queen made her film debut in the 2003 supernatural thriller, Gothika, opposite Academy Award-winner Halle Berry and Golden Globe-winner Robert Downey Jr.

“My character, Rachel Parsons, had her life robbed from her in a very gruesome fashion,” Kathleen thinks back.

“Even though the plot described Rachel as a ghost, I needed to bring her to life as a distraught and suffering young girl for people to sympathize with and understand her ordeal. I had to ‘physicalize’ her life story.”

Oh, and a minor detail, Kathleen had to do it all without saying a word.

It was a challenge, but she had great support from her co-stars.

“Working with acting pros like Halle relieves a lot of the stress and worries I have about the whole film making process,” she says.

Kathleen has since worked alongside icons Bruce Campbell in The Woods, Tom Skerritt and Dougray Scott in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and most recently, Rebecca De Mornay and Mischa Barton in Apartment 1303 3D.

And this is only the beginning. Now that is scary.

Here is Kathleen’s playlist of some big time artists.

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U2

“I’ve always admired this band for their artistic innovation and soulful songs. U2 is not only diverse in meaning, but multidimensional in sound and expressions. It’s hard to name a favorite song from this band since every U2 song depicts a different story with endless meaning and rhythmical images that have always stayed with me.”

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Amon Tobin

“I discovered this influential artist about a year ago when I was invited by a Director of Photography friend to attend one of his shows. It was one of the most mind-blowing spectacles I have ever witnessed. I’m an electronic music devote who greatly admires this virtuoso sound designer. I was enlightened by the orchestration of lights accompanied by his mythological sound and beats. It’s transportation into a total different world of artistic possibility. Very inspiring.”

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Infected Mushroom

“Best known as the sonic innovators of psychedelic trance genre, they are a band that I find very creatively stimulating, especially when I’m working on horror movies or darker characters. It’s dark, but their sounds are calculative and levitating enough, and won’t keep you in that darkness when you’re listening to them. The right balance of every beat of electronic music.”

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Damien Rice

“Being a hopeless romantic, I just can’t help but fall in love with his touch of romance mixed with the melancholia blends in his poetic songs. I imagine if Romeo had a voice, it would be Damien’s soothing voice. If love at first sight had a tune, it would be the ‘Blower’s Daughter.’ One of my all time favorites.”

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Duffy

“She represents the quintessence of feminine sensitivity. Her voice is pure and her lyrics are chewed pieces of heart that have lived to sing. ‘Stepping Stone’ is a song I listen to when I need to be reminded that we teach others how to treat us and we decide where we stand in someone’s life. I find her music to be classic and unspoiled by the new age ideas of conformity notions expected from female musical artists.”

Posted by Marc Andrew on Oct 31 2013. Filed under Celebrity Playlist. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.