With directorGeorge Clooney’sThe Tender Barnow streaming on Prime Video, I recently got to speak withTye Sheridanabout making the film. Written byWilliam Monahanand based on Pulitzer Prize-winning writerJ.R. Moehringer’smemoir of the same name, the Massachusetts-set drama explores the relationship between the fatherless J.R. (Sheridan) and his uncle (Ben Affleck), as they bond at a bar overflowing with colorful patrons. The film also starsLily Rabe,Ron Livingston,Christopher Lloyd, Max Martini, Briana Middleton, Max Casella. Daniel Ranieriplays the young J.R.
During the interview, Sheridan talked about how Clooney directs with an actor’s perspective, his personal connection to the script, what he’s most excited for people to see in the film, what it it like reading William Monahan’s script for the first time, how he prepares for a big scene that he knows will be tough to perform, and more. In addition, he suggests the first thing you should watch if you’ve never seen any of his previous work.
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Watch what Tye Sheridan had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about followed by the official synopsis.
Tye Sheridan
Here’s the official synopsis:
“The Tender Bar tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan), a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie (Affleck), is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams — with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar. The Tender Bar is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by J.R. Moehringer.”
