“I’ve never understood the false alpha male view of like, ‘Men never apologize!’” Patton Oswalt says. “Yes, you fucking do. Because everybody fucks up.”
, and loosely based on his own true story. Morosini also stars as Franklin, a young man who cuts his father, Chuck , out of his life. Desperate to reconnect, Chuck creates a fake Facebook profile based on a young woman he knows — and ends up catfishing his son.
Morosini has nothing but praise for his leading man. “He has a natural ability to balance the light and the dark,” says the filmmaker. “He can bring levity to impossibly dark subjects. He’s also just a lovable and sympathetic presence, and I knew I would need help making the audience care about Chuck.”Though the character is an absentee father who employs deception, Oswalt sympathizes with Chuck. “He’s that guy — and I’m guilty of this at times — who thinks, ‘But I want to be good.
In addition to “I Love My Dad,” which hits theaters Aug. 5 and VOD Aug. 12, Oswalt has a busy year ahead. He will lend his recognizable voice to Matthew the Raven in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” and is teaming up with “MODOK” co-creator Jordan Blum on “Minor Threats,” a Dark Horse comic about lesser supervillains. The first issue appears Aug. 24.Oswalt’s latest special, “We All Scream,” which he also directed, arrives on Netflix Sept. 20.
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