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Unbelievably, the cringe only escalates from there.
Most astonishing,I Love My Dadis based on experiences drawn from Morosinis own life.
I literally cringed all the way through this movie.
Probably even more so knowing its based on real events.
Your dad in fact catfished you, James.
What happened?James Morosini: My dad and I got in a big fight.
I was going through a tough time.
He was really worried about me, but I wouldnt talk to him.
I was very excited and then it turned out to be my dad!
My dad was catfishing me.
And the story was born.
I hadnt thought about it in a long time.
I dont think so.
There are probably better ways to do it.
But I wanted to tell the story in a sincere and sarcastic way.
Patton, how did you react when this script crossed your desk?
It means theres a new voice out there.
It came down to just me wanting to see how this gets made.
I wanted to see how we pull this off.
Chuck is a great, complex, fully fleshed-out character.
Tell me about the challenge that presented.PO: I had to not make my performance needy toward the audience.
Im better than this person.
Do I necessarily have to follow through?
People can relate to it in a cringe-y way.
Hes stating a plain fact.
PO: Go ahead.
That was what would keep it away from ever feeling creepy or too weird.
He really cares about his son.
Everything else comes from that place because thats a place we can all connect to.
The wordcringekeeps coming up in our conversation.
Shooting that part was tricky because were intercutting multiple sexual fantasies and physical locations.
Also that Claudia Sulewskis performance as Becca was able to kind of mirror Pattons performance and vice versa.
We were really all setting out to make this whole cringe-y puzzle work.
Then we came in and yelled Action and started making out.
Its not me, again, trying to approach it from anything weird; this is just whats happening.
This is more about how this fits into Jamess characters fantasies and recollections later.
Ive never really explored that area of my personality or what I could have been.
You have a go at find something human in that.
And that really put me on unsteady ground for a while.
I was actually covering my eyes as I watched parts of the film and saying no out loud.
In the way that youre describing shouting No!
It goes from those moments to everyone laughing or screaming; its like a comedic horror movie.
Then other moments, the audience is dead quiet.
So theres this big contrast of reactions thats been really fun to see.
But emotionally, this movie is very true for me.
I set out to make a movie about the intricacies of my relationship with my dad over a lifetime.
I wanted to explore his perspective throughout and really understand where he was coming from.
I really do feel like its made our ability to see one another stronger.
