He was the first kid we read and after he did this scene (of yelling at his mom in the car), everyone was like, oh this isn’t just a good child actor, this is a great actor of any age or gender. HILL: He had the exact quality I was looking for which was someone who was very young for their age but who was 10-feet-tall inside. It’s always done stereotypically, made by people who weren’t from the culture a lot of the time.ĪP: How did you settle on Sunny for the lead? And to me skateboarding is always butchered in film. It is in no way a biopic or an autobiography, but I knew skateboarding would play in some way into my first film because although I was terrible at it, it was something that came into my life when I really needed it and really gave me a lens that I saw most things through, even when I went into comedy or film, it’s subversive, it’s anti, it’s punk, its sense of humor, taste in music, attitude toward authority (laughs). HILL: Well, I grew up skateboarding in the mid-90s in Los Angeles. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity. Hill spoke to The Associated Press about the film and what he was trying to say. “A Doritos bag has a wildly different shape and aesthetic now than it did in 1995,” Hill says. For the shoot, he and his crew painstakingly recreated the mid-90s Los Angeles he remembers, from the music, to the clothes, the talk and even the trash. It took Hill three years to write “Mid90s” which is now playing in limited release before it expands nationwide. It’s about a 13-year-old boy, Stevie (Sunny Suljic), growing up in Los Angeles with a single mother (Katherine Waterston), an abusive older brother (Lucas Hedges) who finds solace (and quite a bit of trouble) with bunch of local skateboarders (newcomers Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughli and Gio Galicia). He settled on a coming-of-age story, which he laughs is a “tried and true” formula for a first film.
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