Steven Spielberg Talks “Daunting” Experience Of Bringing Teen Years To Big Screen In ‘The Fabelmans’ – Toronto

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Steven Spielberg has described his semi-autobiographical picture The Fabelmans, delving into the teenage experiences that led him into filmmaking, as the most “daunting” project of his six-decade, blockbuster filmmaking career.The feature, which releases in the U.S.

via Universal on November 23, world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday evening to rave reviews and predictions of awards season glory.The thinly veiled account of Spielberg’s own formative years, stars rising Canadian actor Gabriel LaBelle as movie-obsessed teenage Sammy Fabelman, in a cast also featuring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen and Judd Hirsch.“I thought it was going to be a lot easier than it turned out to be.

I know the material and I’ve known all the characters my entire life, but I found it to be a very daunting experience,” Spielberg told a Toronto press conference.“I was attempting in a semi-autobiographical way to recreate huge recollections, not only in my life but in the lives of my three sisters and my mother and father who were no longer with us and the responsibility of that began to build,” he told a Toronto press conference.Spielberg joked that he had turned long-time collaborator Tony Kushner into his “therapy” and “counsellor” as they tried to get the story out of him.

The pair co-wrote the screenplay over Zoom in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2000.“As we started working on this, I realised there would be no aesthetic distance between me and the experience.