In Marc Forster’s adaptation of A Man Called Otto, Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks plays a grouchy widower who seems to find everything wrong with the world around him. After the passing of his beloved wife, Otto (Hanks) withdraws from society and even finds himself contemplating suicide. When a boisterous and friendly family moves in next door, and a cat happens to take up roost with him, Otto begins to realize what it truly means to live.
Based on the New York bestseller by author Frederik Backman, this emotional and heartwarming movie tells of love found and love lost, and the importance of a community to help rebuild. Actress Mariana Treviño (Overboard) and action-star-turned-dad, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Magnificent Seven), play the married couple who move their growing family next door to the uninviting Otto. It isn’t until Treviño’s pregnant Marisol persists in drawing her grump of a neighbor out of his shell that Otto’s hardened heart begins to soften.
Before A Man Called Otto was released, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke with Mariana Treviño and co-star Manuel Garcia-Rulfo about the film. During their interview, they discuss how they got involved with A Man Called Otto and what about the movie appealed most to them. They also share their most challenging scenes from other projects, the significance of cats in our world, and what it was like working with Tom Hanks.
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