“The Life of Chuck”: Check out our heartwarming, exclusive scenes
Young Chuck (Benjamin Pajak) learns important lessons from his teacher (Kate Siegel) in an exclusive clip of “The Life of Chuck.”
Based on Stephen King Novela, the upcoming film, “The Life of Chuck,” features everything from end-of-the-world scenarios to multiple dance sequences. You can’t puncture that in a pigeon with a genre, but what you can’t deny is the big, life-affirming mind of the film.
Director Mike Flanagan’s film (June 6, June 6, June 6, at Select Theater) records the life of a seemingly ordinary accountant named Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in an inverse order of three acts. USA Today debuts a moving scene from the film’s final act in which Young Chuck (Benjamin Pajak) asks about Miss Richards (Kate Siegel), a sixth-grade English teacher.
Her elegant answer is “a microcosm of what this film is,” Siegel tells USA Today, where there is a “deep human” about this “important” moment in the film.
“They say that Chuck has a crowd, and that this little child has a whole world to grow, which means that everyone else on Earth also has a crowd,” Siegel says. “Chuck is the most important person in the universe, and at the same time it’s completely insignificant, and that feeling means being a human, feeling completely important and central, and being part of a huge whole with the universe in all humans.”
Four actors play Chuck during the course of the film. In addition to Hiddleston and Pajak, Jacob Tremblay lives in the older age of the character’s teenagers, and Cody Flanagan, Siegel’s son, husband Mike Flanagan, is the youngest little boy Chuck.
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Based on the novel by King Stephen, “The Life of Chuck” records the life of accountant Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in three acts that reversibly speak.
In that scene where Miss Richards is Chuck’s head and face, “it felt like I was talking to my future son,” Siegel says. “And on one level, I added the whole other layer, knowing that my son is part of Chuck.
Currently 8, Cody wants to be an actor “of course”, Siegel reports. “This kid was more confident than I had in my acting career 20 years. He was like talking to his father, ‘I think we need a line here.’ And I was so proud of him.
“Every day he told me, ‘Mom, when are you going to get an agent?” And I say the same thing: ‘When you turn 18.’ “
