Published 12/31/2021 4:54:14 p.m.

‘I Am Sam’ Director Jessie Nelson Wouldn’t Make Her Movie the Same Way Now

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Twenty years after the release of the Sean Penn–starring “I Am Sam,” director Jessie Nelson is looking back on her movie and celebrating that it couldn’t be made in the same way now.“I wouldn’t make that movie today without a lead being from the [disability] community,” Nelson told The Hollywood Reporter. “But that movie would not have been made 20 years ago.

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‘I Am Sam’ Director Jessie Nelson Wouldn’t Make Her Movie the Same Way Now

Twenty years after the release of the Sean Penn–starring “I Am Sam,” director Jessie Nelson is looking back on her movie and celebrating that it couldn’t be made in the same way now.“I wouldn’t make that movie today without a lead being from the [disability] community,” Nelson told The Hollywood Reporter. “But that movie would not have been made 20 years ago. It wasn’t like I had the choice: ‘Make that movie with a lead from the community, or no…

12/31/2021 4:54:14 p.m.·Los Angeles, United States

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