Marielle Heller on landing Tom Hanks for ABeautifulDayInTheNeighborhood
"This was just such a universal story that needed to be told," says Marielle Heller, on the set of 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' with Tom Hanks.
Marielle Heller had no intention of ever making movies about men. "I had decided that we don’t have enough movies about women, and so if I spent my whole career just making movies about women I would be happy with that," says the director, who most recently helmed the 2018 Lee Israel biopic, the story based on Fred Rogers, and she knew she had to make the film. The Sony release, which debuts Sept. 7 at TIFF ahead of its Nov.
and I just think he's an incredible actor. It was important to me it was somebody whom you really buy as a quick, smart journalist who just feels too cynical for Mr. Rogers. He’s sort of our entry point into Fred's teachings through this lens of cynicism. It's also really important that his character is going through this major life transformation which is becoming a parent.
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