Chris Pineis caught up in a criminal conspiracy in his star-studded directorial debut.
“It was a flow state for months. There wasn’t time to think or get in my head,” Pine, 43, tells PEOPLE of directing himself in the movie, which comes more than 20 years after he first began acting in Hollywood. “It was so joyful and the most creative I’ve ever gotten to be on set.”
A synopsis forPoolmandescribes Pine’s character as “a native Los Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.”
Poolman poster.Courtesy of Vertical
Courtesy of Vertical
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Annette Bening, Chris Pine and Danny DeVito in “Poolman”.Courtesy of Vertical
Pine says, “We hope you leave the theater with a smile, feeling a little bit lighter than when you came in. Just a moment to escape the day-to-day with a story that delights.”
“I like that kind of optimism and I think audiences will too,” adds Pine.
Chris Pine in Poolman.Courtesy of Vertical
Poolmanalso starsAnnette Bening,Danny DeVito,Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Tobolowsky, Clancy Brown, John Ortiz and Ray Wise, whom Pine describes as a “hall-of-fame team.”
“Just getting to work with one of them would be fortunate. The fact that they all said yes was unbelievable,” he says. “I’m forever grateful they gave their time and talents to the film.”
Poolman,whichhad itsworld premiereat theToronto International Film Festivalback in September, is in theaters May 10.
source: people.com
