It was after Iron Giant, and they weren’t making animated movies much anymore. Because his relationship with his wife and the girl’s relationship with her mother would be so present, with regard to the people they’ve become and the journey they go on, even though there wasn’t a lot, it felt very rich and like there was a lot to work and play with. We had to cast a pretty wide net to find a kid who could do all the dialogue — there is a lot of dialogue — and who was in that small window between being a young adult capable of taking care of themselves and others, but also believably young enough to need emotional caretaking on the level that takes place in the story. Looking back, it’s clear I was writing about raising a kid after divorce. I was thoroughly unprepared to be doing interviews on red carpets. Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programs, Up-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming series, Pandemic-proof vs. pandemic-contingent broadcast lineups, Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters, Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. Did you write it with the idea of also directing and starring in it?AFFLECK: Yes. I just finished it and was a little bit surprised to see Elisabeth Moss being a part of this since she is such a famous actress and I thought perhaps she didn't want to be connected to Casey after he almost got cancelled by Brie Larsen. Mom was gone so in movie language that means: All Moms are gone, if you know what I mean. I was bummed when we were finished because I wanted to do more — I felt like I just got started. The movie came out before I was born but they were showing it at a little one screen theater in Boston called Off The Wall. Because the scenes are so challenging and so much has to be told with each one, it felt like we were shooting an entire movie in one day which, as far as the arc of my character goes, we actually were. “Light of My Life” delivers a lush variation on familiar elements, and wends its way to a tense final showdown that makes the wandering trajectory worthwhile. I just made it up one night and liked it. I know it has been used a lot, but trying to do something nobody has ever done seems like silly hubris. I think about my kids and how to raise them all the time. Anyway, the executive since has seen an early screening of Light of My Life and (he laughs) said, ‘Well, you found a way to get Art’s Ark on screen after all.’. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was a movie I watched a lot as teenager. Cookies help us deliver our Services. An executive at the studio was very patient with me but, ultimately, I had no idea how to write a script for an animated studio movie. Just a theory but maybe the bad guys offered rewards to people who found girls? It’s definitely one of my all-time favorites and when Jimmy Cliff performs at the recording studio has to be one of the best musical performances on screen. Much of their time is spent finding isolated locations to camp in the woods, locating and bartering for supplies, and not attract any suspicion upon themselves that Rag is really a girl. Through sparse, intelligently used flashbacks, we glimpse the days after Rag’s birth, when her mother (Elisabeth Moss) reveals a lesion signifying the start of the virus and sickness inevitably pushes her towards death. Learning to let go. Affleck has stated that, on one level, the film is about raising children after divorce, with one mother being gone meaning all mothers are gone. He finds that his kid is perfectly capable of being her own savior. I want to work with Andrew Dominik again. She had a tough job selling the world in the few glimpses we get of it, and making the houses look abandoned but livable, and all feel real. Then, I wrote an outline for an animated movie and set it up at Warner Bros. The last 14 years of my life have been primarily about being a parent. Apocalypse: Person versus nature. While Light of My Life is screening, there are two other films in which Affleck also stars and are being sold in Berlin — The Friend with Jason Segel and Dakota Johnson and the Mona Fastvold-directed The World To Come that Affleck is producing with Killer Films and Sailor Bear and stars in with Katherine Waterston. AFFLECK: A movie called Jeanne Dielman, creates great tension with a static camera and sustained shots. Out came this script. I began writing about a parent and two boys, and my kids vehemently objected. Adam Arkapaw (Macbeth, True Detective) I met for this. Although the scenes with Moss presents as flashback, her character is ever present as the father continues to carry her spirit forth with stories and reminders to his daughter. And as a parent you have to protect your kid. Adam did a great job. The movie came out before I was born but they were showing it at a little one screen theater in Boston called Off The Wall. Light of My Life was produced by Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman and Sea Change Media’s Casey Affleck. Also, because there weren’t a lot, every scene had to be really mined for all they were worth to get as much as possible out of them to help tell the larger story. Sometimes you find a story that someone else is telling and you want to be a part of it. Is this the direction you want to head with your career – as a writer/director, actor, producer?AFFLECK: I would like to be able to tell stories that originate with me — that feel important to me, close to me. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. She is the very best in the business and had done gigantic productions, like Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, wrangling thousands of orc extras and hobbits and horses and helicopters and stuff. She is great and always in demand, and didn’t have to do this but was happy to come teach me and help me. The movie really comes alive in its closing minutes, a bracing series of physical showdowns in tight corridors that culminates in blinding white snow. There were a few weeks there when I would crawl out of the cold, and wet, woods in Canada with a scraggly beard and tangled hair, and I would fly to LA and put on a suit and go do a red carpet for an award show, then fly back for Monday morning. I like realism. There are lots of movies that have done this. I just ignored all that other associations and the cliche of it, and called it what felt right. So I concocted a story that is different on the surface but essentially my story. How did you find Anna Pniowsky, who plays your daughter in the film?AFFLECK: Through our awesome casting director Avy Kaufman. I mean this movie is a lot of things: This is a father and daughter story, a post-pandemic story, a human versus nature story, a home invasion story, a coming of age story, and a fairytale. review How did you come up with the title?AFFLECK: It is a term that has been around forever and used in lots of stuff. The story is also about a young person who is feeling a natural and age appropriate desire to be independent. In the final act, Rag and her dad take refuge in his grandfather’s beautiful old house where three older men have set up camp with plentiful supplies. Affleck’s use of dramatic camera angles and abrupt reveals make it unclear exactly who has the upper hand until the movie’s thrilling conclusion, when “Light of My Life” finally becomes less about a man raising a woman and more about a woman ready to take on the world.

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