Director Mike Mills

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Mike Mills is a writer and director who's worked in film, TV, and on music videos. He's made the films Beginners and 20th Century Women and his newest movie is called C'mon C'mon. It's a film about the extraordinary burdens of parenthood and the ways it changes parents. It's also about kids and how amazing and resilient they can be, even in the face of serious trauma. Mike talks with us about C'mon C'mon and how the film connects to his personal experiences with parenthood. He also shares that the film features real interviews with kids conducted by Joaquin Phoenix. Plus, he'll talk about the role music plays in his creative process and how he always leaves room in the budget for live musicians on set.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.1	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.4	There's a new movie out now called Come On Come On.
0:25.2	It's written and directed by my guest, Mike Mills.
0:28.5	On Come On centers on two characters, Johnny played by Joaquin Phoenix and his 9-year-old
0:34.5	nephew Jesse, played by Woody Norman.
0:37.5	They aren't close, but circumstances force them together.
0:41.2	Jesse's mom needs Johnny's help.
0:43.7	She's in LA taking care of Jesse, but Jesse's dad is in San Francisco and he's having a
0:49.1	manic episode.
0:50.6	She asks Johnny to take care of the kid while she tries to get her ex into the hospital.
0:56.4	At first, Johnny moves in with Jesse in LA.
0:59.3	It's not an easy fit, but they start to bond.
1:02.9	Then, Johnny decides to take Jesse on the road for work.
1:07.3	It's a film about the extraordinary burdens of parenthood, the ways those burdens change
1:12.9	parents, and about kids and how amazing and resilient they can be, even in the face of
1:18.2	serious trauma.
1:19.9	In this scene, Johnny is reading Jesse a little bit of the Wizard of Oz before bed.
1:24.1	White is the witch color, so we know you are a friendly witch.
1:30.6	Dorothy didn't know what to say.
1:32.6	Dorothy did not know what to say to this.
1:35.2	For all the people seems to think her witch.
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