This week marked the release of “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood,” Richard Linklater’s new film about growing up in Houston in the shadow of the Apollo Space Program in the late 1960s. While the movie was inspired by Linklater’s own childhood, he is not the only member of the film’s team to have a personal connection to the material.
Jack Black, who narrates the film as the grown-up version of the main character, is the son of two aerospace engineers. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, famously worked on projects like the Hubble Space Telescope and was involved with the Apollo program. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote the film, Black opened up about his mother’s legendary career and how it inspired his performance. The actor described how he was born on Aug. 28, 1969, just one month after the Apollo 11 moon landing, and how...
Jack Black, who narrates the film as the grown-up version of the main character, is the son of two aerospace engineers. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, famously worked on projects like the Hubble Space Telescope and was involved with the Apollo program. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote the film, Black opened up about his mother’s legendary career and how it inspired his performance. The actor described how he was born on Aug. 28, 1969, just one month after the Apollo 11 moon landing, and how...
- 4/2/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
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