Jan 13, 2026 · 1:02:47

Ryan Coogler on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

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The Hang, in Short

Composer Ludvig Göransson explains how he met Ryan Coogler at USC in 2008, and it starts perfectly. He moved to LA thinking Americans were silly for needing cars, discovered the bus doesn't come, and ended up in a grad student frat house that "literally felt like an American Pie movie." He and Ryan bonded over pool, Swedish music, and the fact that Ryan showed up with locks down to his back, fresh off playing football at Sac State. They've been working together since Ryan's student film Locks. Ludvig gets technical about his scores, from guitar in Fruitvale Station to talking drums in Black Panther (basically analog Morse code from West African villages). For Sinners, it's guitar again, full circle. Best detail: Ryan practiced guitar daily during production, and Ludvig wants to know if he's kept it up.

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  1. 0:05

    Hello everyone. Welcome to another

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    episode of Good Hang. This is a This is

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    a good one. We were thrilled when this

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    person wanted to talk to us. Ryan

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    Cougler, the incredible director, um

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    Sinners, Black Panther, Creed,

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    Fruitville, Station, just so everything,

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    all the good things. And um we we we're

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    going to talk about so many things

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    today. We're going to talk about um

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    football. We're going to talk about

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    Jurassic Park. Uh we're gonna talk about

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    uh how vampires are sexier than zombies

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    and we are gonna get in in the minutia

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    of the beautiful film Sinners that is up

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    for all the awards and should win all

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    the awards. So I loved this conversation

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    with Ryan and um and uh can't wait for

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    you to hear it. And we always start

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    these episodes by speaking to somebody

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    who knows our guest, who gives me a

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    question to ask them and speaks well

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    behind their back. And joining me today

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    is Ludvig Yurensson. Um Ludvig is a uh

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    well just the most preeminent composer

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