Steven Spielberg Talks ‘Reliving Trauma’ While Directing ‘The Fabelmans’: ‘Often It’d Take Me 5 Min To Collect Myself’
etcanada.comTelling his own story was a new challenge for Steven Spielberg. In a new interview with W Magazine, the iconic director opens up about making “The Fabelmans”, the Oscar-nominated fictionalized account of his own youth. READ MORE: Steven Spielberg And Ke Huy Quan Share Heartwarming Embrace On Red Carpet Along with showing how Spielberg found his love of cinema and moviemaking, the film also exposes his late parents’ marital difficulties which eventually led to their divorce. “During ‘Fabelmans’, I had to retain my objectivity, and that was difficult,” Spielberg says of making the film. “Subjectivity is a filmmaker’s greatest enemy, and I always try and stay in the mind of the audience, or the characters—but never too far away from either.” “That takes some distance, and with this film, there were some scenes where I was reliving trauma—an instant replay of something that happened when I was 16 years old,” he continues. “Often it would take me five minutes or so to collect myself.
I’d tap [cinematographer Janusz Kamiński] on the shoulder, and he’d know that I’d need a moment to compose myself.” READ MORE: Watch Steven Spielberg Telling Tom Cruise He ‘Saved Hollywood’s A-s’ With ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Spielberg also talked about the process of casting the members of his own family with actors like Michelle Williams and Paul Dano and recreating his childhood memories. “It was cathartic,” he admits. “We re-created the house I grew up in from blueprints and photographs, and we matched it exactly.
I stepped into my childhood home! I wanted to ask everyone to leave me alone in the house, but I didn’t do that. I wanted to have a good cry, but I didn’t want to cry in front of my entire crew and cast on the first day of
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