In Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon,” Joaquin Phoenix plays a New York-based radio journalist who, throughout the movie, records interviews with real kids about their lives, asking them questions like, “What scares you?” and “What makes you happy?”
During the film’s making, Mills would schedule the interviews sporadically, often at the end of a day of shooting.“It was a constant reminder of what being genuine was in front of the camera, to really be authentic,” Phoenix says. “They just were.”
Source: Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Mills on sincerity in ‘C’mon C’mon’ | Cinema | indexjournal.com