Meryl Heller and Amy Adams
Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty ImagesAmy Adams To bring about his latest film, he indulged himself in a whole new aspect. Night dog For life, according to the director Meryl Heller.
“I love it [Disenchanted] “It’s the last time he’s done a movie before, because it just shows his incredible range,” Heller, 45, told EXCLUSIVELY. We weekly on Wednesday, November 20, at the red carpet premiere at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Los Angeles. “The film required such different muscles from him. He had to sing and dance and be full of it. [Disenchanted]and this movie was really about shedding all the trappings and being as raw and vulnerable and intimate as possible.”
“I think she has such an incredible range that she can do both of those things the way she does,” the filmmaker continued.
Adams, 50, reprized her role as Giselle from Disney’s Bewitched In a sequel that hits Disney+ in 2022. Meanwhile, Night dog is a horror comedy adapted from Rachel YoderA novel of the same name. In both the film and the book, a stay-at-home mom decides to leave her role to find a new chapter in her life. Her nightly routine soon takes a surreal turn as maternal instincts begin to manifest in canine form.
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Heller, who noted that her two children likely did not recognize Adams as “the same person.” Bewitched Watching scenes from movies night dog, Even added an array of screen moments that hit close to home. (Heller is married to The Lonely Island comedian. Jorma Tacconewith whom she shares a 9-year-old son, Wylie, and a 4-year-old daughter, whose name has not been publicly shared.)
“A million of these scenes are from my life. I mean, the book she reads to her son, Good night, good night construction sitewas my book for my son,” Heller said us “Weird The secret lies within our joke. The movie is riddled with easter eggs for my son for just one day when he watches it and realizes it’s a love letter to him.
In addition to honoring his children, Heller said Night dog There is also a message for mothers and all they go through in the name of parenthood.
“It’s about talking about our bodies and what we actually go through, not just when we become mothers, but as we age,” Heller explained. There’s still a taboo.” Just as you don’t want a young girl on her first period to feel like she’s going to die, you want women to understand that they’re going to be mothers. What is going on during I guess you can never tell someone completely, but maybe you can make it feel like a less lonely experience if they can see that they’re not alone in all the feelings that come with it. .
According to Heller, “Instagram culture” has exacerbated these feelings.
“Mom really gets like, ‘Oh, you should do this, you should do this.’ People like to come up to you and be like, ‘Why isn’t your baby wearing socks?'” she added Wednesday. “You want to be like, ‘What Do you have any idea how many socks I have on those feet? And it tore everyone apart, or whatever it might be.”
Heller explained that these “shoulds” are placed squarely on mothers’ shoulders, adding that husband Taekwon, 47, “has never experienced anything like this.”
“She didn’t have people coming up to her and giving her their opinion on how she should raise herself,” she added. “I hope this film makes people feel a little less alone in this experience and hopefully I can give myself a little more grace and more pause that we’re all doing our best.”
With reporting by Mariel Turner
Night dog Premieres in theaters on Friday, December 6.
