![]() ![]() He even got Mom to paint a special portrait, based on my father, but with the face of Woody Harrelson, who plays Dad.ĭestin also went to Welch, the small town in southern West Virginia where I'd spent my teen years. He went through the hundreds of paintings she has stored in the two sheds behind her cottage, and he liked them so much he decided to include them in the movie. ![]() They're very nonjudgmental."ĭestin noticed the oil paint on Mom's hands, a hazard of being an artist, and he took a picture of them so he could get it right for the film. Mom does not fit a lot of people's preconceptions of what a mother should be, and whether you like her is for me a litmus test of whether you're willing to accept people for who and what they are.ĭestin not only liked Mom, he completely understood her.Īnd she adored him. ![]() Sadie Sink as "Young Lori"from left, Charlie Shotwell "Young Brian," Ella Anderson "Young Jeannette," Woody Harrelson "Rex Walls." Naomi Watts "Rose Mary Walls" and Eden Grace Redfield as "Youngest Maureen" in "The Glass Castle." (Jake Giles Netter / Lionsgate)ĭestin visited me, read my father's journals and met my mother. ![]()
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