Hugh Jackman, actresses Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern, Anthony Hopkins and other stars of The Son attended the press conference at the Venice International Film Festival ahead of the world premiere of this year’s biggest films.
Stars Hugh Jackman and Vanessa Kirby, the film’s main leads, spoke, and Jackman said his role in The Son gave him a new perspective on dealing with his children, allowing himself some room for error as a parent and communicating more with them by sharing their weaknesses.
“Each character has their own set of inner turmoil, the inability to express what I felt,” Kirby said, feeling “inspired by movies that ask those questions.”
As for Dern, he added: “As we were going through the epidemic, I was reading that the biggest crisis that has happened during this time is the mental health crisis, especially in today’s adolescents and young adults, all over the world. The numbers are very shocking.”
And she said, “We want all of you to feel in community in this larger conversation that you need to have about mental health. And we still always feel alone, too. And that’s the duality of living and growing as people.”
The Son and The Father are part of a theatrical trilogy that focuses on family, with its third part revolving around the mother, and the events of the film, joined by Vanessa Kirby, revolving around a son. teenager who destroys the life of his parents. , as Peter “Hugh Jackman” seeks to be a better father and seeks to help his son achieve family happiness and try to understand what he is going through, but the family faces a dangerous path and everyone tries to reconnect.
El Son will screen tonight at the Venice Film Festival, then move to the Toronto International Film Festival to screen on the 12th of this month, and is scheduled to open in US theaters on November 11.
The Son, directed by Florian Zeller, is a sequel to The Father, which won Academy Awards and BAFTAs for Best Adapted Screenplay last year.
Source: Elfann