‘Nowhere Special’ Director Uberto Pasolini On James Norton’s Star Turn In Father-Son Drama – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comUberto Pasolini, who wrote and directed the James Norton-starring Nowhere Special that opened this weekend, says, rightfully, the film’s power emanates from the tangible bond you feel between father and son.
Norton – the BAFTA-nominated British actor (Bob Marley: One Love, Little Women, Happy Valley) – is John a 35-year old window washer and single father to four-year old Michael (BIFA-nominated Daniel Lamot).
John has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and is on a quest to place his son in a loving home. Norton “understood that the film lived or died — would have lived or died — on the relationship and on the connection between the two.
And so he came over to Belfast before we started shooting and spent an enormous amount of time with the family, with the boy himself.
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