Michelle Williams plays Steven Spielberg’s Jewish mother in a new film largely about his life: “If he felt like I was the person who could play this part, I wanted to believe.”
In “The Fabelmans,” the new semi-autobiographical movie from director Steven Spielberg, Mitzi Fabelman is the mother of all Jewish mothers. She is an uber influence on her family without whom, the movie argues, a filmmaker like Mr. Spielberg would never have been possible.
While Jewish mothers have often appeared on screen as finely tuned guilt machines, Mitzi is an argument against the stereotype. “Guilt is a wasted emotion,” she says. The exact sentence is drawn from the filmmaker’s childhood.
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