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Bill Pohlad Returns to Directing with 'Love & Mercy'
Bill Pohlad has spent the past decade producing award-winners like Brokeback Mountain and 12 Years a Slave. With Love & Mercy, a unique Brian Wilson bio-pic, he comes back to directing after a 24 year hiatus.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenLove & Mercy director Bill Pohlad made a bold choice with his Brian Wilson bio-pic: he cast both Paul Dano and John Cusack to play the legendary Beach Boys co-founder at different points in his life. He tells us why he went with that approach and why this was the movie that pulled him back to directing after many years of producing.
Photo: Bill Pohlad on the set of Love & Mercy (Francois Duhamel)
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Love & Mercy director Bill Pohlad made a bold choice with his Brian Wilson biopic: he cast both Paul Dano and John Cusack to play the legendary Beach Boys co-founder at different points in his life. It was a risky plan, but it worked. Pohlad's uniquely structured bio-pic is one of the few summer releases now in the Oscar race.
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