![]() He was inspired to write the drama because of the death of a childhood friend, who shot himself after discovering a gun while a junior high school student. “Eric Larue” had initially been staged there in 2002, and Neveu thought that there were ways to open up the play’s action to make it work on screen. Shannon and Neveu knew each other from A Red Orchid Theatre, the Chicago based company of which they are both members. I knew I had to do it, and I worried if someone else did it, they’d just screw it up.” But when I read the script, I could just see it and feel it in my bones. Everyone needing you to sign off on everything. It always looked like a nightmare - all that responsibility. “I always found it an intimidating proposition. “I wasn’t predisposed to direct a movie,” Shannon says. He confesses he wasn’t really looking to make the move behind the camera, but there was something about Brett Neveu’s script that hooked him. The film, which marks Shannon’s feature directorial debut, debuts on June 10 at the Tribeca Festival. The subject of our talk is “Eric Larue,” a shattering look at a woman (Judy Greer) who is consumed with grief and guilt after her son murders several of his classmates. Oscar De La Hoya Reveals His Most Spectacular Lies in HBO's 'The Golden Boy': Exposing 'My Feelings and My Emotions Was Petrifying' Leslie Grace Talks Immigration Doc 'Translators' and Working With 'Jokester' Peter Dinklage in 'The Thicket' ![]() ![]() 'Songs About F-ing' Director James Gallagher on Capturing the Sex-Fueled Grandeur of Marc Rebillet What the hell did I watch over there? I manage to conjure up a few films - “Zone of Interest” and “May December,” the title of which I can’t quite grab onto and rechristen as “the Todd Haynes one.” And with that out of the way we’re off, pausing for a few minutes halfway through so Shannon can tell his kid to get ready for a sleepover while he makes him something to eat. “What was worth watching?” And to hear his probing questions, delivered in the low rumble and unvarnished intensity with which Shannon threatens Superman in “Man of Steel,” momentarily makes my mind go completely blank. ![]() I’m supposed to be the one conducting the interview, but he’s more interested in what I saw at Cannes. Michael Shannon has turned the tables on me. ![]()
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