About My Father Director Interview: Laura Terruso on Why Comedy Is Best Seen With An Audience
9We already know that About My Father is a personal film for Sebastian Maniscalco, and it serves as a love letter to his father Salvo Maniscalco, who in the film is played by Robert de Niro, but what I also found extremely fascinating while doing my research for the film was just how personal the film was to its director, Laura Terruso, who looks at the film as a love-letter to her own Silician mother. Knowing this, it's now incredibly easy to see why Maniscalco entrusted Terruso with directing his first film as a leading man.
Comedies don't come around on the big screen very often anymore, especially in the post-COVID era, but this summer looks to have a variety of promising titles alongside About My Father including No Hard Feelings, Strays, The Machine, and Joy Ride. Teruso previously directed the Netflix comedy Work It as well as the indie films Good Girls Get High and Fits and Starts, but About My Father will mark her first comedy to receive a wide release in theaters. About My Father opens in theaters on Memorial Day weekend and is a surefire crowd pleaser much in the vein of comedy hits like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Meet the Parents, and also stars comedy queens like Kim Cattrall and Leslie Bibb.
I was fortunate enough to sit down and talk with Terruso, and we talked about why comedy movies are always best seen on the big screen if there were ever alternate cuts of the film, what kind of movie she'd want to do next, and which actress she'd want to see play her mother in a film.
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