Steven Spielberg Tells Martin Scorsese Why A Very Private Director Made ‘The Fabelmans’, And How Laura Dern Convinced David Lynch To Play John Ford
deadline.com“I’ve been very private about my private life, and I’ve never gone public with my private life until now,” Steven Spielberg said Sunday.
It was the existential threat of the Covid pandemic at its most lethal back in 2020 that nudged his very personal family story to the big screen. “What I thought was that if I had to make one more movie, if I had to tell one more story, what would that story be?
And that’s why I decided to put this into production,” he told Martin Scorsese at a Q&A after an NYC screening of The Fabelmans at the DGA Theater. “My mom and I had a secret for a long time, and my mom would always say to me, ‘Gee Steve, this would be a really terrific movie.
Why don’t you make that move some day.’ So I had her coming at me from one side and Tony Kusher, who had heard the stories and was really kind of pushing for it.” He’s referring to the award winning playwright and screenwriter and his longtime collaborator who co-wrote The Fablemans, as well as to a central mother-son plot point in the film.
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