"The Cat and the Moon" is of course the title of a famous William Butler Yeats poem, but it’s also an animated short by Pedro Serrazina, and even a song from the musical version of The Lord of the Rings. Peter Berg, who I’ve worked with before, signed on to executive produce it because he really responded to the script and I took his a lot of his technique of letting actors find moments and having that kind of improvisational quality to it as well. And Korean filmmakers – the film Oasis was a big inspiration for me. It’s hugely inspired by the Dardenne Brothers – The Kid with a Bike was a big, big inspiration for me, watching that film and watching Two Days, One Night, as well as Mean Streets, obviously. That’s my long winded answer, but it’s really a young boy’s journey. You watch him process what’s going on with his life and how this young person who’s filled with a lot of rage and all these different things can process something horrible through a loving and giving young community taking him in. While he’s there he has to process the very grim and upsetting truth of his dad’s death, and the way he is able to properly process that is through meeting these young kids his age in the school in New York, who take him under their wing and show him a wild side of New York.
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This is before you even enter into the movie, but basically his mother goes into rehab and he is forced to go to New York to live with the only person who has volunteered to take care of him, which is this older jazz musician played by Mike Epps, who was a friend of his father’s from before his father passed away.
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It’s a film about a young man who is pretty isolated in his life, because he has a mother who is a troublemaker.
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In an interview with Paper, you said that the film was years in the making.