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Hugh Jackman contacted Florian Zeller directly to ask for a role in 'The Son'. The 53-year-old actor stars in Zeller's prequel to the Oscar-winning movie 'The Father' and yearned to play the role of Peter as soon as he read the script. Speaking at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Hugh said: "When I read 'The Son' I had a feeling like a fire in my gut. It's a scary feeling to have, but it's beautiful. You rarely get it as an actor, that this part is right for you at this part of your life and you must get it. "I said, I don't know if you're dancing with someone on this, and I don...
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Sir Anthony Hopkins has been cast in 'The Son'. The 83-year-old actor will feature in Florian Zeller's follow-up to 'The Father', which landed Anthony his second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a man with dementia. Anthony joins a star-studded cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby. The Australian newcomer Zen McGrath will also feature. The movie has recently wrapped filming in London with Iain Canning and Emile Sherman producing for See-Saw Films alongside Zeller and Christopher Spadone – who also produced 'The Father'. The picture has been shot on loc...
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Vanessa Kirby has joined the cast of 'The Son'. The 33-year-old actress has boarded Florian Zeller's new film and follow up to his Oscar-winning movie 'The Father'. Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are also starring in the movie that has been adapted from Zeller's critically acclaimed stage play by the director and Christopher Hampton – after the pair worked together on 'The Father'. 'The Son' focuses on Peter (Jackman) as his life with new partner Emma (Kirby) and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas. The boy is troubled, distant...
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Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern have been cast in Florian Zeller's upcoming flick, 'The Son'. The director has lined up his follow-up to multi Oscar-nominated 'The Father', which focuses on Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas. The young man is troubled, distant and angry, playing truant from school for months. Peter strives to be a better father, searching to help his son with those intimate and instinctive moments of family happiness. But the weight of Nicholas’ conditi...
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Sir Anthony Hopkins’ character in ‘The Father’ was given his name so the actor didn’t feel “protected”. The 83-year-old actor stars as the dementia-stricken titular patriarch in Florian Zeller’s cinematic adaptation of his own stage play and he admitted changing the character’s name from Andre was a deliberate move to help the screen legend feel more “connected”. Florian said: “It was important to give the character the same name as him. I didn’t want him to feel protected by the character, by fiction. I wanted him to be connected to his emotions, to his feelings of mortality.” The filmmaker w...
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Florian Zeller changed the name of the lead character in 'The Father' to help Sir Anthony Hopkins. The 41-year-old playwright has turned his hand to film directing for the drama flick – which sees a dementia-stricken man struggling to cope as his daughter (Olivia Colman) moves into his apartment with him – and revealed that he changed the character's name from Andre to Anthony to give the Oscar-winner more authenticity in the role. Florian – who has based the project on his play 'La Pere' – said: "It was a way to make my unrealistic idea a bit more realistic." The acclaimed French playwright r...
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