Mills and Hoffmann discuss what they learned from young actor Woody Norman and how Mills convincing Phoenix to play the main character.
The seed or the soil of it is totally me and my kid — that’s where it started. The concerns in the film come from my experiences of being a parent to my very specific kid. And then the plant that comes from that seed is its own different shape and different thing, but it can’t exist without that beginning.
The kids that Johnny interviews throughout the film — are those real interviews, or were the kids child actors?I did a project years ago with SFMOMA, where we interviewed kids whose parents worked in tech companies about the future. And I’ve done this kind of work in the past. … so at the beginning of writing this, I wanted all this intimacy [for the characters], but then I wanted to throw them out in a big world of kids.
I wrote that title, but I really don’t know what it means. I just like it. And I like that it’s open-ended, and it feels right to me. Always did. I don’t have a good explanation.This story first appeared in a November stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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