We spoke w/ director Marc Forster about AManCalledOtto, working with Tom Hanks, and finding the film's balance.
In Columbia Pictures’ feature, A Man Called Otto, Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks portrays the titular curmudgeon and tells of an unlikely friendship between grumpy Otto and the affectionate family that just moved in next door. The heartwarming story is based on author Fredrik Backman’s New York Times bestselling novel.
COLLIDER: I just want to say congrats on the movie, and I don't appreciate you making me cry, so eff you. I'm joking, obviously. FORSTER: It's just incredible, because everything you hear about him is true. He's not just the nicest person in Hollywood. It's all true. There couldn't be, in my dreams, a better collaborator. He has no ego, he's so kind, and he listens. We've just been working. Working together with someone that good, as you said, one of the greatest actors of all time, it's extraordinary.
You know something, I have cats, and they sometimes don't want to do anything that you want them to do. I love cats, and I want to know if you agree that one of the morals of this movie is that a cat can help save your life?Until they get very mad at you.I think you know this about me, but I love talking about the editing process because that's where it all comes together.
But it was really the silver lining trying to find the humor in the darkness, the yin and the yang to really... It took a while, but eventually, I think we got there. I'm really pleased. Because it's about a community coming together, I hope that [the] community experiences the movie in a theater, because they can laugh and cry together.
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