Julie Plec Reveals Favorite "Kyle XY" Moment

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I’ve said repeatedly that I was not a writer, that I didn’t think I was a writer, and so when I got my first opportunity professionally to write, it was for a show I was producing called "Kyle XY".

It was my first time out of the gate and I was already a producer on the show so it would have been really embarrassing if people didn’t like the script I wrote. I’d been given this song my our music supervisor Chris Mollere when he interviewed for the job. He gave me a whole album actually; it was Matt Kearney’s first album and there’s this song called “All I Need” that’s the most beautiful song I’d ever heard in my entire life.





And so I listened to that song on, basically, constant loop while I was writing my first episode of television and the end of the episode, I wrote to that song, intending on using that song, so when we went and shot the episode, I played that song while we were shooting — it’s the final shot of Kyle throwing the drawing he painted of the girl he had a crush on into the pool so it would melt because he just realized she had a boyfriend.

His little heart was broken.





So I played the song while we were shooting that scene and then we used the song in the cut and for whatever reason it’s always been my favorite moment; I think because it was everything I envisioned everything I wanted it to be it was and because it was my first time.

And the song placement was so gorgeous and it was so powerful and worked so well that I felt great about it. And just sweet little Matt Dallas and his sad face standing by the edge of the pool realizing he’s not going to get the girl as Matt Kearney’s beautiful song is playing. It’s just the greatest.

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