In a wide-open year for Best Actor nominations, the buzz has been consistent around one performance in particular: Anthony Hopkins’ turn in Sony Pictures Classics’ The Father as an elderly man whose confused descent into dementia has heart-rending consequences for himself and his daughter. Co-starring Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots and Rufus Sewell, the film is an adaptation of Florian Zeller’s hit 2012 play, which the writer directed for the screen from a script by Christopher Hampton.
Zeller says during the movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event that the inspiration came from a very personal experience. “I had been raised by my grandmother,” he says, “so she was like my mother. She started to suffer from dementia when I was 15, so I knew a bit what it was to go through this painful process.”
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Zeller says during the movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event that the inspiration came from a very personal experience. “I had been raised by my grandmother,” he says, “so she was like my mother. She started to suffer from dementia when I was 15, so I knew a bit what it was to go through this painful process.”
Contenders Film: Deadline’s Complete Coverage
From that starting point, he...
- 1/24/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
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