Taika Waititi Felt Understandably Awkward While Directing Jojo Rabbit In Costume

Directing a film is a hard job to begin with, and adding in playing a role while directing makes it that much more difficult.

Layer in acting in a scene with a child, and asking him to switch back and forth between taking direction and acting with you, and it’s a Herculean task.

What if, on top of all that, you’re playing the role of Hitler?Taika Waititi took all this on while acting in, and directing, from a script he adapted, the 2019 film “Jojo Rabbit,” the story of Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis), a young German boy who is a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk,…The post Taika Waititi Felt Understandably Awkward While Directing Jojo Rabbit In Costume appeared first on /Film.

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