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• It’s bent time, it really has.” He said his obsession goes back further than the time since he got the rights to Bernstein’s music and life from his family, recalling asking Santa Claus for a conductor’s baton as a child, having seen it in Bugs Bunny cartoons..
• The former plays legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein as the Netflix film tells the complex love story of Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan) — a story that spans more than 30 years..
• As the classical music world knew very well, Leonard Bernstein was bisexual, and continued having homosexual affairs throughout his marriage to Felicia, a classically trained actress..
• He spent six years developing the project, telling Deadline in November, “This movie has messed time up for me..
• “The best thing is to tell a story we can all relate to hopefully and it’s all to the rhythm of his music..
• It won an AFI Movie of the Year award, and has eight Critics Choice nominations as well as four Golden Globe noms..