![]() The film was produced by Renovo Media Group, Good Country Pictures and Under the Influence Productions. The direction is deft and thrilling, and the performances are wonderful across the board, anchored by a true tour de force from Maya Hawke.” “Ethan and Shelby Gaines’s script embraces non-conventional storytelling, not being content with a typical biopic structure, instead blending fact, fiction, and everything in between, to give us a true portrait of a complicated human rendered more real as a result. “It’s very exciting to me that we’ll get to bring ‘Wildcat’ to audiences,” he said in a statement. ![]() ![]() Oscilloscope executive Dan Berger called the film “an inventive and unique look at an artist that was herself inventive and unique.” “They’d be like, ‘Why are you doing that?’ So I mostly called him ‘Dad.’” “And then I realized it was actually more distracting to people,” she said. Maya Hawke also joked about a short-lived attempt to call her father by his first name to seem professional to her co-stars. ![]() In a September cover story, Ethan and Maya Hawke spoke to Variety about working together as a father-daughter duo and the challenges of making a movie about a person “whose imagination is more interesting than her life experiences.” In the movie, O’Connor, a deeply religious Catholic, asks herself questions like, “Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?” Laura Linney, Rafael Casal, Cooper Hoffman and Steve Zahn round out the cast. Set in 1950, “Wildcat” takes a kaleidoscopic look at the life and work of a young Flannery O’Connor as she battles lupus and struggles to publish her first novel. ![]()
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