My Father’s Dragon Interview: Director Nora Twomey on Animation’s Endless Potential
) and Academy Award-nominated director Nora Twomey comes an exquisite film inspired by the Newbery-honored children’s book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett,” reads the film’s synopsis. “Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island, and the friendship of a lifetime.
You mentioned that it’s based on the classic book. Did you grow up with that book or when were you introduced to it? She just began to write. She wrote for herself, didn’t have a grand plan or anything like that when she was writing. She certainly wasn’t talking down to children. She places tremendous importance on the imagination of children and the power and autonomy of children. Not only is she an amazing author, she raised six wonderful daughters, but she also did things like in her local village, she would go into the school and help children who were having difficulty learning to read.
But every single one of our cast just were delighted to play. I think actors like animation because [you can] turn up in your sweatpants, and nobody cares. You’re standing in front of a microphone. It’s just you and your imagination and whatever you can bring to your part. So it was incredible getting to work with them all.
And I just thought it was such a wonderful multilayered … there was so much between the lines and that page. What’s going on in Elmer’s mom’s life, that a saucer of milk is a big deal and what’s going on with Elmer when he looks up at his mom’s face with all of this anger and probably to see somebody that he doesn’t recognize. I thought there was such amazing potential for the screen in moments like that. And that’s what we replicated throughout the film.
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