Richard Linklater

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I'm Rick Linklater here to talk about my new film "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood" out on Netflix. For a little background, eighteen years ago, I was pulling out memories of 2nd grade to help me construct the narrative of Boyhood's second year. Even though that movie is a celebration of the non-extraordinary, it became clear to me I had lived through and close to something truly extraordinary - the grandest and most enduring engineering feat in human history. I think it took decades for us to fully process that the Apollo program and walking on the moon was the apex because we'd all believed it was just a great beginning. My "who but me?" thinking kicked in when I realized I was probably the only filmmaker that remembered how exciting it was to be a kid at that moment and was geographically that close to NASA. When I remembered an actual kid fantasy I had at the time, I stumbled upon my way to tell the story from both the astronaut perspective and from the bottom-up, public, TV-consumer perspective. Check out the trailer HERE.

Thank you for all the questions. Check out "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood" on Netflix.