Nat's got three kids and is married and obviously they're all important to me as well, but we also have our acting lives, which up until now have been pretty separate."Īnd here they do indeed diverge. Rash: "But you also have to celebrate what's important to us in our personal lives. Says Faxon: "You need to make time for those moments. You're very different at 25 than you are at 30, it's a key time, especially for this one, who was very immature."įaxon gurgles a giggle they talk about trying to have fun away from work.
But despite the age gap we grew up together. Rash says pertly: "Yeah, it's like when you're first in a relationship and you love all the things about someone, and then the real person comes out and you think: 'Well, I've already put in a lot of time …' I probably revealed worse attributes as the years went on, which could make him wanna bail. Is what drew them together still what they like about one another? Rash and Faxon first met at LA improv company the Groundlings, when Rash was close to 30 and Faxon still nearer 20. "For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling." "I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up," says Rash. While the grownups run wild, Duncan gets a job and becomes a man. Trent's way to teach Duncan to be a better man is to cast him out, and Owen is inviting him into the fold in a very nurturing way." Trent and Owen are the same thing in different capacities. It's a false one because she's never trusted herself. Says Rash: "She's lost in the idea that having a man is what she needs to complete this family.
#THE WAY WAY BACK CAST PLUS#
"You go through a water channel."Īnd while The Descendants finished with a picture of single-parent family contentment, as Clooney plus daughters share ice-cream on the couch, so this too cheerleads a non-nuclear option. Collette's character is neglecting her son in favour of her new boyfriend because she thinks that is in everyone's longterm interests. "It's a rebirth," says Rash, with a happy shrug. The scene in which she submerges herself in the pool after learning her mother is dying finds an echo in Duncan's trip down the water park's top chute. Duncan shares DNA with both the George Clooney character in that film, tip-toeing out of the shallows, and with Shailene Woodley, who played his daughter. Photograph: Claire FolgerĪnd, just like The Descendants, The Way, Way Back shows strained relations in an apparently ambrosial setting, fishes out of water washed up and scrabbling. Toni Collette and Steve Carell in The Way, Way Back. "A blobby guy who sits on a chair, says some things and then falls." "I saw you more as Humpty Dumpty," says Rash. "Or the weird guy at the bridge who won't let them cross. "A hopeful ending." He directs a loafer at his companion. It's a fairytale, right? What with the wicked stepfather, the fairy godfather, the Oz-ish setting and the happy ending. Faxon and Rash cameo as two of Rockwell's employees: the former as a genially pervy surfer type, the latter catty and languorous behind Dahmer specs and a kinky tache. Strongest are the performances: Carell brilliantly mean and smug, Allison Janney off-the-leash as a boozy neighbour, Sam Rockwell perfect casting as the goofy manager of the local water-park, who takes Duncan under his wing. This direct psychological trigger explains the film's mix of emotional soap (climaxing in cathartic vindication) and nostalgic comedy. That same exchange happened to Rash himself, with his then-stepfather, in about 1984, when the film was supposed to be set before budgetary constraints kicked in. Trent corrects him: he's a three, and this summer he needs to shape up. The opening scene shows Trent pep-talking his potential stepson while the women nap. Trent (Carell) has Steph, a bitchy blonde senior Pam (Collette) comes with Duncan (Liam James), a gauche 14-year-old, and the film's de facto star. The car also contains each of their children. But while in that first film they were siblings, here they're lovers, off for their first extended vacation in his Massachusetts beach house. Its overlap with the first isn't just tonal: it starts and ends in a car, with Toni Collette and Steve Carell. The Way, Way Back, a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, premiered at Sundance this January, where it was snapped up by Fox Searchlight for $10m, and groomed to follow previous acquisitions Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. Later that spring, they shot their first film as directors as well as writers (they also pop up in the supporting cast). Rash and Faxon struck not just while the iron was hot, but while the statuettes were still in the furnace. AnnaSophia Robb and Liam James in The Way, Way Back.
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