This week, Nick is joined by voice actor and SAG member, Anthony Arnello, coming all the way from Thousands Oaks, CA to discuss the 2018 Paul Dano directorial debut: Wildife. Surrounded by enthralling and complex performances by Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp, and Ed Oxenbould, Wildlife is perhaps the most underrated film of 2018, telling the story of a father, played by Gyllenhaal, who loses his job and is then hired to become a firefighter to put out wildfires spreading in 1960s Montana. However, this film instead focuses on the wife and his son, played by Mulligan and Oxenbould respectively, and how they cope with the situation.
In this episode, they discuss the brilliant and overlooked performance of Carey Mulligan, the complexity of each character, the detail of costuming, the purpose of Gyllenhaal’s disappearance for the majority of the film, the stereotypes of masculinity and the housewife in the 1960s, the breakdown and attack of the “American Dream,” an analysis and meaning behind certain monologues, who we most empathize with, and much, much more!
February 9, 2019.
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