“I’m going to end with Wildlife. Paul and I had been together maybe six years when he found Richard Ford’s book Wildlife. He started adapting it on his own, and then he asked me to read his script, and I was like, “I don’t know how to give you notes on this. I think I just have to rewrite you,” which is terrible of me. But this is a book that is told through the child’s perspective. He’s looking at his own parents. His mother is unknowable to him, and I think I felt this surge of protectiveness for her, where I felt like I wanted to understand her in a way that her son could not. And even though our film is told from his perspective, I felt like, actor to actor, I had to provide an actress with a roadmap that was full of understanding and not just mystery. Our dear friend Carey Mulligan I think gives one of the performances of her career in this. Jake Gyllenhaal’s also really special, and this kid, Ed Oxenbould, who is an Australian… at this time teenager. I’m really proud of this. So it’s deeply meaningful to us to have this film in this company, and, you know, I think that there’s something really relatable here, so maybe watch it. But, also, I’m just glad it’s here. I have enough copies of this, though.”
