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Mckenna Grace as “Mary” and Chris Evans as “Frank” in the film GIFTED. Photo by Wilson Webb. \u00a9 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n \n The movie revolves around Frank Adler (Chris Evans)– a single man raising his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) in a coastal town in Florida.\u00a0 But Mary is a brilliant child prodigy and Frank’s intention that she lead a normal life are thwarted when the seven-year-old\u2019s command of mathematics comes to the attention of his formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan)\u2014a wealthy Bostonian whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Mary and Frank.\u00a0 As family tensions and disconnections flare, uncle and niece find support in Roberta (Octavia Spencer), their protective landlady and best friend, and Mary\u2019s teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate), a young woman whose concern for her student soon develops into a relationship with her uncle as well.<\/p>\n \n Mckenna Grace as \u201cMary Adler\u201d and Chris Evans as \u201cFrank Adler\u201d in the film GIFTED. Photo by Wilson Webb. \u00a9 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n \n \u201cGifted\u201d began its journey to the big screen when producer Karen Lunder, who has produced an assortment of films including \u201cArrival,\u201d remembers a conversation with producer Andy Cohen in which she asked: \u201c\u2018What do you have that\u2019s great and different? What is the thing you\u2019re most excited about?\u2019 He sent me \u201cGifted.\u201d\u00a0 When I read the script, it had this timeless quality to it.\u00a0 It felt like the kind of movies I grew up watching: it was a throwback of sorts to films of the 70\u2019s and early 80\u2019s that weren\u2019t afraid to make you laugh and cry \u2013 that were both escapist and real.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Lunder and Cohen, director Webb responded immediately to the writing. \u201cI kept on waiting for this script to get bad, but it just kept getting better.\u00a0 It was simple, warm and uncynical. The writing felt nourishing to me.\u00a0 Mary and Frank are something like a comedy team with a lot of heart.\u00a0 After spending so many years on bigger movies, I just wanted to hang out with these two.\u201d<\/p>\n In his career, Chris Evans has judiciously chosen a balance of blockbuster and smaller, more interior films. He picked \u201cGifted\u201d for many reasons but says: \u201cIt was more the director than the role. You can have a great role and a great script. You can have a lot of pieces in place but if you don\u2019t have a great director, you don\u2019t have much. So for me it was Marc Webb.\u201d<\/p>\n Webb is particularly pleased that \u201cGifted\u201d is a movie in which all the intellectual powerhouses are women. \u201cIt\u2019s a movie where women are really brilliant and it\u2019s not done as a stunt. It\u2019s something that feels weirdly rare, I don\u2019t know why.\u00a0 I love the idea of having girls who are good at math, women who are good at math. I mean, it happens in the world but we just don\u2019t always recognize that in cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n Webb also thinks that fathers will respond to the message of the film, if his own reaction is any example: \u201cI\u2019m a forty-year-old dude, and I got choked up. All the burly grips hid behind the duvateen (light blocking fabric) because they were crying.\u00a0 I think men are not encouraged to feel, which I think is one of the challenges that Frank has to face, but of course men are emotional creatures too.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGifted\u201d will open in cinemas on May 3 from 20th<\/sup> Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the director of the surprise hit \u201c500 Days of Summer,\u201d Marc Webb helms his latest endearing story \u201cGifted\u201d – starring the world\u2019s beloved captain Chris Evans along with the \u00fcber-talented Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and rising young star Grace McKenna. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[2199,2201,2944,131],"class_list":["post-15052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-chris-evans","tag-gifted","tag-marc-webb","tag-movie"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/1-15.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15052"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15078,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052\/revisions\/15078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/2-7-300x200.jpg\")