“The movie shows how devastating it can be to everyone around the addict,” Timothée Chalamet explained during a recent panel on Beautiful Boy. Timothée Chalamet knows that Beautiful Boy, based on the memoir Tweak written by Nic Sheff (played by Chalamet) and Beautiful Boy written by Nic’s father David Sheff (played by Steve Carell), is obviously about… Continue reading Timothée Chalamet Discusses The Message Of "Beautiful Boy"
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Nic Sheff Discusses "Beautiful Boy" Movie
“The movie felt so real and they got so many details of our life right that it felt like reliving the most painful parts of our lives,” Nic Sheff shared in an interview with Parade magazine. The memoirs Beautiful Boy by David Sheff and Tweak by Nic Sheff have been made into a tender, heart-wrenching… Continue reading Nic Sheff Discusses "Beautiful Boy" Movie
The Character Without a Credit: Addiction in "Beautiful Boy"
David is desperate to fix Nic. He researches addiction and interviews doctors. He even takes crystal meth to try to better understand. Told largely from the perspective of David Sheff (Steve Carell), the father of 18-year-old Nic (Timothée Chalamet), who struggles with crystal meth addiction, Beautiful Boy is an agonizing film adaptation of memoirs written… Continue reading The Character Without a Credit: Addiction in "Beautiful Boy"
Beautiful Boy’s Timothée Chalamet & Nic Sheff Talk Addiction
The duo went on a multi-city tour where they discussed addiction, recovery and their critically-acclaimed film. Actor Timothée Chalamet and author Nic Sheff went on a multi-city tour last weekend to talk about their new film Beautiful Boy. The film is based on the memoir Beautiful Boy by New York Times best-selling author David Sheff,… Continue reading Beautiful Boy’s Timothée Chalamet & Nic Sheff Talk Addiction
My "Beautiful Boy": David Sheff on Bringing His Family’s Story to the Big Screen
While watching the film, I would look over at Nic sitting next to me and get so emotional. I would start to cry and I feel like I’m about to start crying right now because I came so close to losing him. In “The David Sheff Solution,” The Fix interviewed the National Book Award-winning author of… Continue reading My "Beautiful Boy": David Sheff on Bringing His Family’s Story to the Big Screen
Beautiful Boy: An Interview with Nic Sheff
“A really cool expression of the family bond in the film is how the love survives everything that the disease can throw at it. Despite so much trauma, at the very end, you see that that core love never goes away.”The journey from addiction to recovery is a personal one, with details usually confined to… Continue reading Beautiful Boy: An Interview with Nic Sheff
