4 June 2011 8:19 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
After the death of his father, writer/director Mike Mills decided to reflect on his grief and write a script. Thinking about his father, who came out of the closet at the age of 75, after having been married to his mother for 45 years, he realized that the hunger to completely change your life and live as your truest self was confusing, painful, funny and deeply inspiring. When his father passed away five years later to cancer, he did so as open and honest as he’d ever been. From that, Beginners was born out of the belief that something so personal could become universal for other people. At the film’s press day, Mike Mills talked to Collider in this exclusive interview about opening himself up to telling such a personal story, how his own father’s honesty changed how he wanted to live his own life, why Ewan McGregor »
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