Earlier this month, a video of the 'Southpaw' actor singing 'Finishing the Hat' down flights of stairs before ending up on stage went viral and putting together the clip with 'Beasts of No Nation' filmmaker Cary Fukunaga came about very quickly and was "totally organic".

The actor listed Carter Burwell's score for the Coen Brothers' 1990 black comedy Miller's Crossing as one of his favourite soundtracks.

It is a mad world but music makes it better.

His score for a movie called Searching for Bobby Fisher is probably one of my top five scores in movies.

It was actually played for me by my mother first. Loudon Wainwright is extraordinary. Rufus is a friend of mine and I think he’s extraordinary.

his is “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso,” by Saint-Saëns, it’s the Philadelphia Orchestra with Sarah Chang. I just imagine the finger work of this soloist and people who play fretless instruments always boggle me. I’m always am amazed like, ‘That has no frets?!’ *laughs* And this in particular, I’m taken so many places with this song. It really broke me out as a kid into the emotions and the intensity of classical music.

My mother was a big Danny Kaye fan and would always play me these movies. She is, in fact, the person who always calls me up and is like, *imitating his mother’s voice* ‘You should redo “The Court Jester!’

I would pick “The Fox” and this version is by Burl Ives. My father used to sing this to me -- and I love Burl Ives just as a character, just as a musician -- and when I was a little kid we were robbed outside of our house. We were driving home, we pulled up and we were robbed and ever since I was always really nervous about falling asleep, you know, naturally, and so my dad would sing this to me before I’d go to bed.

I just kept listening to this song and by the end of this take, I just start to cry and cry, I couldn’t stop crying. I think a lot of it has to do with, it’s connection to my family, listening to Bruce Springsteen when I was a kid with my dad.

I’m a big [Nirvana] fan. I did a movie that went straight to video — a classic — called Highway with Jared Leto, about two guys that go to Seattle in the time when Kurt killed himself. I’m a huge fan and it means a lot to me.

“I take my guidance from hip-hop — I really do — treat every situation like it’s the first time and maybe the last. That’s from Biggie [The Notorious B.I.G.] you know.”