Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg writes and directs his latest film, The Fabelmans. His new movie, The Fabelmans, is inspired by Spielberg’s life, and where his cast felt very personal to him.

One of the main actors is Michelle Williams from FX’s Fosse/Vernon. Williams plays Mitzi Fabelman, a character inspired by Spielberg’s mother. Spielberg has said in various interviews that Williams earned her role after he watched her in Fosse/Vernon.

Deadline writes Williams’s opinion when she first read The Fabelmans script “I couldn’t believe it when I started turning pages in this script. My husband was in the room with me, and I kept saying, ‘It’s just getting better.’ Very often, when you have a script, you have a great scene, and you think, ‘Oh, that’s going to be splashy.’ And this was just page after page of that, just this undulating, gorgeous aliveness. When I finished, I said to my husband, ‘It’s a feast. They made her a feast.'”

Spielberg writes The Fabelmans alongside Tony Kushner. Also starring in Spielberg’s family are Paul Dano, Julia Butters, and Gabriel LaBelle.

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