Often lampooned for his kindness, the unwaveringly gentle nature that Fred Rogers displayed on his show, “Mister Rogers Neighborhood,” was cutting edge, if you ask Marielle Heller, director of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”
“He really actually had some beautiful radical ideas about childhood,” she said. “The idea that everybody deserves love — just the way they are — but also that we need to come up with ways for children to feel their feelings and that feelings matter and are valid — particularly when raising young boys — that’s actually a message we don’t give little kids. What ‘Mister Rogers’ did is subtle; it’s easy to overlook it. For a long time, I think people thought of him as hokey or something to be made fun of.”
Heller spoke at a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday, the day after her film premiered to rave reviews and teary eyes.
“He really actually had some beautiful radical ideas about childhood,” she said. “The idea that everybody deserves love — just the way they are — but also that we need to come up with ways for children to feel their feelings and that feelings matter and are valid — particularly when raising young boys — that’s actually a message we don’t give little kids. What ‘Mister Rogers’ did is subtle; it’s easy to overlook it. For a long time, I think people thought of him as hokey or something to be made fun of.”
Heller spoke at a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday, the day after her film premiered to rave reviews and teary eyes.
- 9/8/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
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