Jason Hammel Were obviously big music fans, and often wed hear a song and say we totally need to cover that and somehow be a part of that song. Weve been talking about it for years and kept an ongoing list. Finally we said, OK, we dont have enough Mates material yet for a new album, but we want to play and record, so lets do it. It was harder than I thought to choose -- we both really had to be into the song, and we both have our own personal taste. Once we agreed on a certain number, we started arranging. Sometimes we would do the song justice, and sometimes it just sounded awful.I was lucky enough to sit down with her at a junket where she discussed the pressures that come with a leading role, the PowerPoint presentation that brought her to Hollywood and what it was like doing takes that lasted 30 minutes at a time.There is plenty of experience at his disposal, including fellow Test regular Jonathan Trott and Essex all-rounder Ravi Bopara.