“I turned around and there was my father and mother.”
“I turned around and there was my father and mother, and I just burst into tears.
I didn’t even think about it.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’.Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
It just happened.”
Dano and Williams instantly stepped into their roles and comforted him.
“Michelle ran to me, hugged me,” Spielberg recalled.
“I had given them speeches long before the first day of shooting.
I got all my tears out writing the scripts with Tony Kushner,” Spielberg said.
“I’m a professional.
[I said,] ‘Don’t worry about me.
You don’t have to take care of me.
My job is to take care of you and guide you to giving some great performances.’
And it wasn’t to be.”
“So it’s as close as it can be, but it also isn’t a documentary.”
Instead, Williams found a personal connection with Spielberg’s mother through the music she enjoyed.
And I think that’s what the great things make us feel."
Want more movie news?
