![]() When viewers meet Cassie, she is singing on stage with her band The Loyal as the audience sings along to their rendition of Neil Diamond’s classic “Sweet Caroline.” As The Loyal leave the stage (or forced off by the bar owner) we learn that Cassie and her bandmates are also the servers.Ī group of Marines, including a friend she used to babysit, arrive with Luke in tow. Purple Hearts and its corresponding soundtrack is not your typical boy meets girl story. “I was so lucky that I got to live with Cassie, with their love story, with the script for four years.” “We wanted to kind of capture that essence for Cassie, that inspiration would hit based on the things that were happening to her in her life,” Carson continues. I would tell her that sometimes might be driving and I have to pull over to the side of the road and start writing something down, based on something that just happened to me. “Liz asked me how I write songs and when inspiration hits. “I was most definitely writing from Cassie’s point of view,” Carson says. “It’s more than just director and actor, but partners.”Ĭarson has spent the past four years not only bringing Cassie to life, but serving as executive producer of the Netflix film - and co-writing and performing several original songs for the soundtrack, which also came out today on Hollywood Records.Īs the script was being revised, Rosenbaum relied on Carson’s experience as a songwriter to inform how Cassie would approach her music. “Liz told me when she handed me the script that she wanted to embark on this journey together,” Carson says. The only thing they have in common is their desire to get away from their struggles. That was the working script for Purple Hearts, which debuts on Netflix today (July 29) and follows the unexpected relationship of struggling singer-songwriter Cassie Salazar (Carson) and newly enlisted Marine Luke Morrow (Nicholas Galitzine). “It was around Christmas time 2017, and she came up to me on set one day and handed me a script and said, ‘Merry Christmas!’ The script had purple hearts drawn on the cover.” “I remember it vividly,” Carson, 29, says.
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