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'Beautiful Day' Director On Mister Rogers' 'Radical Notion': Telling Kids The Truth

&quot;The way the public feels about Tom Hanks has a similar quality to how we feel about Mister Rogers,&quot; says director Marielle Heller. But she found that Hanks and Rogers had a very different energy. At the beginning, she tried to &quot;rein Tom's natural buoyancy back and settle him into a kind of zenlike state.&quot;<em></em> (Sony Pictures)
"The way the public feels about Tom Hanks has a similar quality to how we feel about Mister Rogers," says director Marielle Heller. But she found that Hanks and Rogers had a very different energy. At the beginning, she tried to "rein Tom's natural buoyancy back and settle him into a kind of zenlike state." (Sony Pictures)

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