Through Paul Thomas Anderson's native eyes, the once-maligned San Fernando Valley is a source of inspiration for “Licorice Pizza.”
“The interesting thing about Gary,” Anderson says, “is that he comes across as quite smooth in the beginning, but very rapidly, you see that he’s kind of out of steam,” revealing his inexperience. Gary is growing out of his career as a child actor. Looking for an entrepreneurial hustle, he sells water beds — nodding lightly to Seymour Hoffman’s role as a blackmailing “mattress man” in “Punch-Drunk Love” — before opening a vividly lit pinball palace.
Young Goetzman once sold a water bed to famed hairdresser-turned-Hollywood producer Jon Peters, an anecdoteof fiction featuring Bradley Cooper, who plays Peters as a libidinal, wild-eyed dervish. Anderson turned to his personal Valley circle to cast his female lead, too. When he was an elementary student at the Buckley School in the ‘70s, Anderson was captivated by his art teacher, Donna Rose-Haim. “Miss Rose” would bring an acoustic guitar to class, and even played a Bonnie Raitt cover on TV’s “The Gong Show.”Decades later, Anderson would direct music videos for her daughters Este, Danielle and Alana of the popular band Haim.
“The Valley has been such an important part of my life — even meeting Paul,” Haim says of the director. “One of the first things we connected on was growing up in the Valley.” Part of that experience, she says, involved “this weird narrative that everyone thinks you’re uncool.
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