They have been “zellerized”. Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman fell in admiration for Florian Zeller, the director of The Son in which they play divorced parents trying to pull their teenage son out of a deep depression (Zen McGrathdazzling). The Fatherthe director’s first feature film, twice Oscar winner in 2021, had impressed them a lot.
“It was I who contacted him to play in The Son from that I knew he was wearing his piece on screen, says Hugh Jackman to 20 minutes. I knew I had to get the part and I was afraid it would pass me by. “It is overwhelming in dad overwhelmed by the mental state of his teenager while this aging man must also deal with his young wife (Vanessa Kirby, luminous) and their baby.
The mental illness in question
Same story on the side of Laura Dern. “Florian Zeller has perfect writing,” she explains. He engulfs you in his universe like David Lynch does. A knowing comparison since Laura Dern is one of the American director’s favorite actresses. She too moves to tears in the skin of a woman abandoned by her husband who no longer knows how to help her son at the edge of the abyss.
“It’s important to talk about mental illness at a time when this subject concerns the whole world. I hope that the film will open the dialogue on this subject”, insists Hugh Jackman. The viewer can only approve of this statement when leaving The Sona sensitive work carried out by actors in a state of grace.