How the many pairs behind 'Cyrano' made music for the movie's lovelorn couples
Early in the movie named after him, Cyrano de Bergerac — played by Peter Dinklage — is talking with his friend and fellow soldier. A fiddle player noodles something folkish in the background when Le Bret (Bashir Salahuddin) says: "May I ask you a question?"
"Anything," Cyrano replies.
"It's a little personal," Le Bret warns.
Cyrano: "I have no secrets from you."
Le Bret: "Are you in love?"
Cyrano hedges, but quickly spills his guts. Yes – he's in love, madly, with the beautiful Roxanne. His eyes fill with longing and pain. He flops down onto the table where he's been standing... and he starts to sing.
"Have you ever wanted something so badly you cannot breathe?" he sighs in a low bass, harmonizing with the fiddler (Sam Amidon). "Have you ever loved someone... madly?"
The words for this love song, and all the songs in Cyrano, were written by Carin Besser and Matt Berninger.
"When they break into song,
