Michael Shannon has turned the tables on me. I’m supposed to be the one conducting the interview, but he’s more interested in what I saw at Cannes. “What did I like?” he won…
. He confesses he wasn’t really looking to make the move behind the camera, but there was something about Brett Neveu’s script that hooked him.
“When I first wrote the play, I was so angry,” Neveu says. “I was so upset that this had happened. And while that anger is still present, by the time I returned to it, my understanding of grief had changed. I feel like I was able to let the anger go.” For his part, Neveu thinks that grounding the issues of gun violence in a deeply personal story may shift attitudes.
“I felt strongly that we needed to move,” says Shannon. “This insistence on every woman having a baby no matter the circumstances of how they got pregnant. And the disinterest in helping that person once they are brought into the world, it’s all very confusing. I don’t understand why you would mandate that every child be born and not be ready or interested in helping them.”
Shannon says he enjoyed the experience of making “Eric Larue,” even though he’s “never worked harder on anything.” He’s not sure, though, if he’s going to direct anything else.
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