“How do you begin creating an underwater musical?” Marshall explained in a recent interview with Empire. “It’s never been done before. That fear ignited something in me.” “We introduce the singing ...

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Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes.