Steve Zahn and Jillian Bell in Cowboys Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
In the first part of our interview about Cowboys, which screened as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, director Anna Kerrigan and I discussed how the story deals with gender issues, how she identified locations and used them to address the theme of declining mental health, and how she undertook the casting process, choosing Steve Zahn and Jillian Bell to play divorced parents. In part two, we talk further about that complicated relationship and about young Sasha Knight, who plays the transgender boy at the centre of it.
“What I really liked about working with him is that he was awesome on set,” Anna says. “He came prepared, but I always get sad when there's a child on set where they're like, little adults, where they're so professional that you're just like, ‘Oh, you're not going to have a childhood,...
In the first part of our interview about Cowboys, which screened as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, director Anna Kerrigan and I discussed how the story deals with gender issues, how she identified locations and used them to address the theme of declining mental health, and how she undertook the casting process, choosing Steve Zahn and Jillian Bell to play divorced parents. In part two, we talk further about that complicated relationship and about young Sasha Knight, who plays the transgender boy at the centre of it.
“What I really liked about working with him is that he was awesome on set,” Anna says. “He came prepared, but I always get sad when there's a child on set where they're like, little adults, where they're so professional that you're just like, ‘Oh, you're not going to have a childhood,...
- 3/6/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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