Interview:
Lee Eddy,
"Apollo 10 1/2:
A Space Age Childhood"
In writer/director Richard Linklater’s 1969-set family film Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, Lee Eddy enjoys the most prominent role of her acting career as the mother of a young boy obsessed with the impending Apollo 11 Moon landing. Linklater’s latest walk down memory lane focuses on a Houston family of eight led by Eddy’s stay-at-home mom and grad school student and Bill Wise’s NASA shipping and receiving manager. This family friendly space race drama is fueled by the imagination of Stan, a preteen boy (newcomer Milo Coy) who fantasizes about being an astronaut. Linklater shot his live-action footage at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios with an Austin-centric cast that includes Eddy, Wise, Coy, Glen Powell, and Zachary Levi. Jack Black narrates as the adult Stan. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, which premiered locally during this year's SXSW Film Festival, opened March 25 at the AFS Cinema and debuted April 1 on Netflix. The Austin-based Lee Eddy has starred in the TV shows Panic and Cruel Summer, contributed to the Rooster Teeth web shows Day 5, Red vs. Blue, and Camp Camp, and appeared in such recent films as The One You’re With, Buck Alamo, The Pizzagate Massacre, Kindred Spirits, Mercy Black, and Sister Aimee. Eddy also appeared opposite her husband Macon Blair in Mustang Island and Into the Who Knows! Eddy will next appear in the Macon Blair-directed Toxic Avenger remake. Aired: March 31, 2022. Web sites: https://www.netflix.com/ https://www.facebook.com/leeeddy |
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