The studios didn't know how they would sell it, ... It's not sexy, it has some older actors. But the strange thing is, I'm seeing people in their 20s and 30s walking out of the theaters laughing and talking about the film. And older people want to hug their kids after they see the movie. |
The Thing About My Folks |
The Things About My Folks, |
There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong. |
There's a certain similarity between me and him, and his generation and my father's generation, so to think of us together doing the film together wasn't such a big jump, ... I could hear Peter say the kind of things my father said. He talks like my father a little bit anyway. |
They'll think it's true, |
This is not the most right I've ever been. |
This is only Day No. 2 [in their publicity tour] and we're already tired of each other, |
We're five years into the lean journey, and it is really starting to reveal big opportunities for us. |
When I did, it was very casual, but I never told him about the project because at best I knew he'd say, 'Great, let me read it' and I'd have to say, 'It's not written yet.' So I didn't say anything, |
You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash. |
Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother, |
[Did working with Peter match up to his expectations?] He's everything you think he's going to be, ... He's the funny, brilliant, cranky, crabby Peter Falk. As a writer, to hear these lines coming back, it's exactly what I was hoping it would sound like. You really do sound like Peter Falk! As an actor, it's like playtime, because he's so fast and facile and good. |
[Some surprising moments come from the amount of physical comedy in the film, such as a bar fight Falk starts. Was it hard convincing the older actor to do this type of physical stuff?] The hard thing is stopping him every day from hitting somebody in the head, ... I think he was quite happy to hit me in the groin. |
[What remains the same is the filter of time:] As you get older, ... you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were. |