The Peanut Butter Falcon Filmmaker Interview
175The Peanut Butter Falcon Filmmaker Interview
One of the many films to world premiere at this year’s SXSW was The Peanut Butter Falcon. Written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, the extremely well reviewed movie is about Zak (played by Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true. Along the way, he has a pretty epic adventure, and meets a number of fascinating people played by Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes, Bruce Dern, Thomas Haden Church, Jon Bernthal, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, and Mick Foley.
Before getting to see the film, I sat down with Tyler Nilson, Zack Gottsagen, Michael Schwartz at the Collider studio at SXSW. They talked about what the film is about, how Shia LaBeouf inspired the rest of the cast with his commitment, what they learned from early screenings, how they managed to get such an amazing cast on their feature debut, why there were a lot of group hugs on set, and so much more.
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