The 12-year-old English actor steals hearts in Mike Mills' black and white indie.
When he was 5 years old, Woody Norman asked his mother if he could try being an actor.
“He taught me that, always make a very, very strong bond with your costars.
Woody Norman.Jenny Smith
It’ll make working in a film environment much better.”
“We would improvise a lot and he just had a lot of room to play.”
All that fun and bonding on screen made wrapping the movie particularly emotional.
Woody Norman and Joaquin Phoenix in ‘C’mon C’mon’.Tobin Yelland/A24
“I was close to crying when I first watched it afterwards,” says Norman.
A version of this story appears in Entertainment Weekly’s November issue,available to order here.
