The Tender Bar (2021)
The Tender Bar (2021)
#whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating: 61%
Genre
Drama
Directed by
George Clooney
Screenplay by
William Monahan
Based on
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Produced by
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ted Hope
Starring
Ben Affleck as Uncle Charlie Moehringer
Tye Sheridan as J. R. Moehringer
Daniel Ranieri as young J. R. Moehringer
Ron Livingston as future J.R. Moehringer
Lily Rabe as Dorothy Moehringer
Christopher Lloyd as Grandpa Moehringer
Max Martini as Papa "The Voice" Moehringer
Sondra James as Grandma Moehringer
Michael Braun as Bobo
Matthew Delamater as Joey D
Max Casella as Chief
Rhenzy Feliz as Wesley
Ivan Leung as Jimmy
Briana Middleton as Sidney
Cinematography
Martin Ruhe
Edited by
Tanya M. Swerling
Music by
Dara Taylor
Tye Sheridan, who plays the older J.R. discusses working with George Clooney
“I could not trust anyone more than George to guide that ship so that the audience believes this journey into the older version of the character.”
Lily Rabe who plays Dorothy discusses her character
“The character felt like no one I had ever known and yet there’s something so relatable about her. Every time she leaves, she thinks she’s leaving for the last time and every time she comes back, she’s coming back for the last time — but it keeps happening.”
“It was one of the most exciting scripts I’d ever read. The writing is so beautiful — it’s delicate, restrained and specific. No character is simply a placeholder or foil for someone else. I fell in love with Moehringer’s story and it was such a gift to have his book offer details about his mother that aren’t in the script — like the way that she would sing certain songs in the car really loudly, particularly when she was feeling down.”
Ben Affleck discusses The Tender Bar, his character Uncle Charlie and working with George Clooney
“The luckiest thing that can happen to you as an actor is to have a great script with a great director fall out of the sky. That’s what happened to me. The character’s intelligence and use of language, as well as his evident compassion for his nephew and the non-traditional ways he shows it made it extremely appealing.”
“My father was a bartender in a working people’s bar in the 1980s. He was very well read and had strong feelings about elitism and education. So I had a lot to draw from.”
“In fact, it’s easy to say George gave me the best performance notes I’ve ever been given. He understands how much of acting comes down to the choices an actor makes as much as how he or she is able to connect with a character’s emotional life.”
“I cannot say I had a bad day or even a bad moment, except when George made us all go swimming in the ocean in March. That’s not something normal human beings do in Massachusetts because the water is 33 degrees.”
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