Like the memoir, the movie dramatizes how the author and her siblings-sisters Lori and Maureen and brother Brian-grew up dirt poor, spending much of their childhood and teen years living in a run-down shack without regular access to water or electricity in the coal-mining town of Welch, West Virginia. (Walls still can’t quite believe that casting: “I mean, Brie Larson!”) I knew they’d get it right because I’d been dealing with them so much during the process of making the film, and I knew they were smart, sensitive people,” Walls says of the team that brought her book to the screen-Netter, director Destin Daniel Cretton, and a cast that has Oscar nominees Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts playing her parents, while Oscar winner Brie Larson plays Jeannette as an adult.
It’s just too weird to see your life on screen.’”īut Netter was wrong-and likely thrilled that he was. “He said, ‘People never like movies about themselves.
Before Jeannette Walls sat down in a Los Angeles screening room to watch The Glass Castle, the movie based on her memoir of the same name, producer Gil Netter gave her a warning: “Gil told me I wasn’t going to like it,” Walls tells me during an interview at Manhattan’s NoMad Hotel.
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