What is grace? Read it all when you have time, especially if youre binging on House of Cards this weekend. And so it was; the asphalt ended, and then we began bouncing over a road of old blond bricks, until even that road ended, and we were parked in front of the place where Mister Rogers is to be buried. No, Mister Rogers was not a saint. TJ: Yeah, yeah. ESQ: I mean, you said that if he grew up in the age of Twitter, you can expect what he would have done. ESQ: I wanted to ask you about that nightmare scene [where Lloyd Vogel, the character loosely based on Junod, dreams that he's a character in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe]. TJ: I grew up Roman Catholic too. It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' It's this faithfulness to the essence of Junod's story that makes A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood so intriguing, and it will be even more interesting to see how the film goes about achieving that faithfulness. During his early conversations with Mr. Rogers, Lloyd is visibly disconcerted, even disturbed . I just wanted to let him know that he was strong on the inside, too. And so it was that the puppets he employed on The Children's Corner would be the puppets he employed forty-four years later, and so it was that once he took off his jacket and his shoeswell, he was Mister Rogers for good. And so in Penn Station, where he was surrounded by men and women and children, he had this power, like a comic-book superhero who absorbs the energy of others until he bursts out of his shirt. TJ: Well, I think its always changed, just like yours that way. The film is centered on a writer for Esquire, a men's magazine with an arch sensibility, who is assigned, against his will, to write a feature story on Mr. Rogers as part of an edition on American heroes. It is Vogeland, by extension, uswho grows as a result. It would take a couple Mister Rogers episodes and . Fred was all person by person. Neighborhood," about the TV star Fred Rogers. Her name was Deb. And I just think that its a trap; I think its false. "It's not a performance. His name was Old Rabbit., Old Rabbit. 85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors. He didn't have an umbrella, and he couldn't find a taxi, either, so he ducked with a friend into the subway and got on one of the trains. Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. [Junod gets up, alerts others to the now-smoking lightbulb, and returns with potato chips to share.]. 'Most people think of us as a great domestic airline. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. It's not a good word. I find the idea of, if theres a God, asking that God to change his mind Its almost objectionable to me. The movie is loosely based on Tom Junod's life around 1998 when he wrote an article on Mr. Rogers for Esquire magazine. It would not be easy, nofor in order to win such a battle, he would have to forbid himself the privilege of stopping, and whatever he did right he would have to repeat, as though he were already living in eternity. If this brutal, extended winter has you feeling down and cranky I suggest you give it a read. He had always loved Mister Rogers, though, and now, even when he was fourteen years old, he watched the Neighborhood whenever it was on, and the boy's mother sometimes thought that Mister Rogers was keeping her son alive. In the film, Junod is represented by the character Lloyd Vogel, played by Matthew Rhys. cynical writer Lloyd Vogel (based on Junod, but with a fictional estranged dad figure, played by Chris Cooper, so that Rogers can . Maybe it was something he needed to hear. I am ashamed to say it, but I was too cool at the time for Mr. Rogers. Mister Rogers still has a ways to go.". The ophthalmologists did not want to scare children, so they asked Mister Rogers for help, and Mister Rogers agreed to write a chapter for a book the ophthalmologists were putting togethera chapter about what other ophthalmologists could do to calm the children who came to their offices. The editor isn't looking for a cynical unpacking or a scathing expose, like Lloyd's used to writing; just 400 words that give a wee bit of insight to the man behind that (in Lloyd's words) "hokey kids' show." There was an energy to him, however, a fearlessness, an unashamed insistence on intimacy, and though I tried to ask him questions about himself, he always turned the questions back on me, and when I finally got him to talk about the puppets that were the comfort of his lonely boyhood, he looked at me, his gray-blue eyes at once mild and steady, and asked, What about you, Tom? This has happened so many times that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny fulfilled, because, as he says, "the number 143 means 'I love you.'. If Mister Rogers can tell me how to read that clock, I'll watch his show every day for a year"that's what someone in the crowd said while watching Mister Rogers and Maya Lin crane their necks at Maya Lin's big fancy clock, but it didn't even matter whether Mister Rogers could read the clock or not, because every time he looked at it, with the television cameras on him, he leaned back from . "Roy Rogers is done. That was on fire, right? He rested his head on a small pillow and kept his eyes closed while he explained that he had bought the apartment thirty years before for $11,000 and kept it for whenever he came to New York on business for the Neighborhood. Cerebral palsy is something that happens to the brain. His name was Fred Rogers. But, in that same way, do you think he could have became what he did with social media instead of TV? Three died, and they were still children, almost. And a lot of times conversations go to places that I dont expect them to go. First mook: "Looks like you're gonna have to break down and buy a dictionary." Beautiful Day is adapted from Tom Junod's 1998 Esquire profile of Rogers, and the scriptby Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blueuses Junod (here called Lloyd Vogel and played by Matthew . And it was just about then, when I was spilling the beans about my special friend, that Mister Rogers rose from his corner of the couch and stood suddenly in front of me with a small black camera in hand. With the film adaptation of Junod's legendary Esquire story out today, we talked to the writer about the man who changed his life. Margy couldn't stop them, and she couldn't stop him. It's Mister Fucking Rogers! That's a true thing the real-life Rogers adopted a vegetarian lifestyle back in the 1970s, when eschewing meat was a radical, "hippie" kind of thing to do. He clearly believed in prayer as a way of life. In 1998, Rogers strikes a friendship with Lloyd Vogel, a self-absorbed, embittered journalist who is assigned to interview him for the magazine Esquire. He was wearing beige pants, a blue dress shirt, a tie, dark socks, a pair of dark-blue boating sneakers, and a purple, zippered cardigan. Most famous architects are famous for creating big famous buildings, but Maya Lin is more famous for creating big fancy things for people to look at, and in fact, when Mister Rogers had gone to her studio the day before, he looked at the pictures she had drawn of the clock that is now on the ceiling of a place in New York called Penn Station. "But Mister Rogers, I can't pray," Joybubbles said, "because every time I try to pray, I forget the words. And so I wrote that. If You Loved The New Mr. Rogers Movie, Wait Until You Read What It's Based On. Freds favorite saying from all of literature was, That which is essential is invisible to the eye, from The Little Prince. Its like if you dont do it, maybe it wont happen. ESQ: So its like we dont knowwith the popular mediums we have nowhow to show kindness or come up to each other. And it just goes on and on in much the same way from there. Hate is such a strong word to use so lightly. 0:00. She had a long face and a dark blush to her skin. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of sneakers. And yet, here I am. It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.'. The blue walls are the ends of the daylit universe he has made, and yet Mister Rogers can't see themor at least can't know thembecause he was born blind to color. February 14, 2014. 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"Do you think we can go in?" Exclusive & Unlimited access to Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive. An ophthalmologist is a doctor who takes care of the eyes. She spent much of her time tending to the sick and the dying. A clock is a machine that tells people what time it is, but as Mister Rogers sat in the backseat of an old station wagon hired to take him from his apartment to Penn Station, he worried that Maya Lin's clock might be too fancy and that the children who watch the Neighborhood might not understand it. Now, what the fuck is grace?" "Thank you for calling, my dear," he said, in a voice whose . The movie was so well done and like a lot of people, I had no idea what a loving man Fred Rogers was. The news was confirmed by Fred Rogers Productions . The film is adapted from a real life 1998 Esquire feature penned by Tom Junod, long one of the nation's premier magazine writers. ESQ: In both pieces, the original and The Atlantic piece, prayer comes up. He did the same thing the next day, and then the nextuntil he had done the same things, those things, 865 times, at the beginning of 865 television programs, over a span of thirty-one years. The new film is inspired by the story of Rogers' relationship with journalist Tom Junod, who was assigned to profile Rogers in 1998 for a special issue of Esquire on American heroes. . This content is imported from youTube. Sometimes, ophthalmologists have to take care of the eyes of children, and some children get very scared, because children know that their world disappears when their eyes close, and they can be afraid that the ophthalmologists will make their eyes close forever. The two remained close until Rogers's death, in early 2003. Meaning that there should be mistakes, there should be accidents, and if that was filmed, then it should stay filmed. Enjoy a year of unlimited access to The Atlanticincluding every story on our site and app, subscriber newsletters, and more. I took the phone and spoke to a womanhis wife, the mother of his two sonswhose voice was hearty and almost whooping in its forthrightness and who spoke to me as though she had known me for a long time and was making the effort to keep up the acquaintance. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy, had bought something new for the corner room of their big redbrick house. After I watched the walkthroughand was somehow briefly enlisted in fashion-show-planning service as the only idle body in sightwe sat down on a couch in the middle of all the swirling fashion-show-planners, and talked about Fred Rogers, what he left behind, and what we do now. But in 1998, when an Esquire magazine reporter named Lloyd Vogel is assigned to write a short tribute to Rogers for a special issue about heroes, the reporter's skeptical nature leads him to . But at the same time, we dont know what to do with the lessons that Mister Rogers gave us. It's just a meeting of friends," he said. "Oh, hello, my dear," he said when he picked it up, and then he said that he had a visitor, someone who wanted to learn more about the Neighborhood. The boy had always been the object of prayer, and now he was being asked to pray for Mister Rogers, and although at first he didn't know if he could do it, he said he would, he said he'd try, and ever since then he keeps Mister Rogers in his prayers and doesn't talk about wanting to die anymore, because he figures Mister Rogers is close to God, and if Mister Rogers likes him, that must mean God likes him, too. Not his childhood, mind you, or even a childhoodno, just "childhood." Yeah. Yes, at seventy years old and 143 pounds, Mister Rogers still fights, and indeed, early this year, when television handed him its highest honor, he responded by telling televisiongently, of courseto just shut up for once, and television listened. "I'm done. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A distraction itself was dangerous. It wasnt like Fred was just a kind man who worked at the local food bank. He is losing, of course. It's based on a real-life 1998 Esquire article by Tom Junod, but almost everything in the movie is fictional, except for the wisest, kindest, most penetrating and insightful things Mr. Rogers says in the movie. Let's change it to 'bring the dog home.'" I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella. "Fred, they're not home. Junod also inspired Matthew Rhys' character, a fictional Esquire writer named Lloyd Vogel.. Also read: Where That Navy SEALs Rumor Started A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood shows how Fred Rogers used television to reach into the hearts . The movie, which opens November 22, casts Rogers as an agent of change . ESQ: You wrote in the original piece that he didnt even watch TV. But I mean, Fred and my dad could not have been more different. The quintessence of the man was not his nationality but his faith. His name was Fred Rogers. ", "Yes, Mister Rogers. There was nobody home. Lloyd's father Jerry (Chris Cooper) abandoned him as a child and keeps trying to reconnect, by Lloyd rejects him. Yeah, Mister Rogers is more amazing than you ever knew. He is losing to it, to our twenty-four-hour-a-day pie fight, to the dizzying cut and the disorienting edit, to the message of fragmentation, to the flicker and pulse and shudder and strobe, to the constant, hivey drone of the electrocultureand yet still he fights, deathly afraid that the medium he chose is consuming the very things he tried to protect: childhood and silence. It was a television. TJ: I think you try to put it together in one person. I grew up Roman Catholic. Per his piece in The Atlantic, Junod asked the writers for some changes after reading an early draft of the script in April 2016. He finds me, of course, at Penn Station. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuffed animal; so old that even back then, with the little boy's brain still nice and fresh, he had no memory of it as "Young Rabbit," or even "Rabbit"; so old that Old Rabbit was barely a rabbit at all but rather a greasy hunk of skin without eyes and ears, with a single red stitch where its tongue used to be. Yes, sure, he was taping, and right there, in Penn Station in New York City, were rings of other children wiggling in wait for him, but right now his patient gray eyes were fixed on the little boy with the big sword, and so he stayed there, on one knee, until the little boy's eyes finally focused on Mister Rogers, and he said, "It's not a sword; it's a death ray." I closed the door and sat back down. When he was your age, he had a rabbit, too, and he loved it very much. In 1998, Junod wrote a piece profiling Rogers for Esquire , which . I said, 'Do you know that you're strong on the inside, too?' And, its definitely one of the reasons that changing the name to Lloyd Vogel worked, because I think that things sort of drift towards magical realism at that time. He was in college. He finds me, because that's what Mister Rogers doeshe looks, and then he finds. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. He knowing what only Fred could do. esquire article. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a . Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) is an award-winning writer for Esquire who is nonplussed and annoyed when his editor assigns him to write a profile on Fred Rogers , pastor and star of the hit children's series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. "Oh, heavens no, Tom! I dont like it. Koko weighed 280 pounds because she is a gorilla, and Mister Rogers weighed 143 pounds because he has weighed 143 pounds as long as he has been Mister Rogers, because once upon a time, around thirty-one years ago, Mister Rogers stepped on a scale, and the scale told him that Mister Rogers weighs 143 pounds. And so what I try to pray really is that I represent his message accurately and wholeheartedly. He wanted something from the boy, and Mister Rogers never leaves when he wants something from somebody. Lloyd decides to treat the profile as an investigation to find out if Mr. Rogers is just a character for the . David Murdock is an English instructor at Gadsden State Community College. Twelve years in a Catholic school. Appearance, presentation, looks. If they can hate something like that, you wonder how easy it would be for them to hate something more important." I n early 1998, Tom Junod received an assignment that was outside his wheelhouse. Where is Fred?" And then he was on the move again, happily, quickly, for he would not leave until he showed me all the places of all those who'd loved him into being. Scenes where Lloyd Vogel passes out on the set of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Fred Rogers visits Jerry Vogel with a pie are created for the dramatic purposes of The film's protagonist is journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a cynic who is assigned by his . The shootings took place in West Paducah, Kentucky, and when Mister Rogers heard about them, he said, "Oh, wouldn't the world be a different place if he had said, 'I'm going to do something really little tomorrow,'" and he decided to dedicate a week of the Neighborhood to the theme "Little and Big." "Rephrase in a positive manner," as in It is good to play where it is safe. 'I love you.'. And so the next morning, we swam together, and then he put on his boxer shorts and the dark socks, and the T-shirt, and the gray trousers, and the belt, and then the white dress shirt and the black bow tie and the gray suit jacket, and about two hours later we were pulling up to the big brick house on Weldon Street in Latrobe, and Mister Rogers was thinking about going inside. And so the change is made, and the taping resumes, and this is how it goes all day, a life unfolding within a clasp of unfathomable governance, and once, when I lose sight of him, I ask Margy Whitmer where he is, and she says, "Right over your shoulder, where he always is," and when I turn around, Mister Rogers is facing me, child-stealthy, with a small black camera in his hand, to take another picture for the album that he will give me when I take my leave of him. ", "What prayer is that, Mister Rogers? Fred Rogers, whose gentle . A member of Family Communications and the creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , Rogers was known to young children as Mister Rogers and adored nationally for his gentle demeanor. Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers and Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." (Courtesy Lacey Terrell/Sony Pictures) This article is more than 3 years old. Im just wondering on your end, where has your relationship with prayer landed now, and do you think it will continue to change? She was 92. Its Joanne, he said. Lloyd Vogel Is Based On A Real Journalist Who Praises The Mr. Rogers Biopic. ", The walls of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are light blue and fleeced with clouds. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. He takes a nap every day in the late afternoonjust as he wakes up every morning at five-thirty to read and study and write and pray for the legions who have requested his prayers; just as he goes to bed at nine-thirty at night and sleeps eight hours without interruption. ESQ: Thats where Im at right now. But its the unintentional stuff that I think is really true to life. We swung up to the fashion show venue, where I watched Junod practice his strut to untz-untz-untz beats and avoid a janky step at the start of the runway. I sat in an old armchair and looked around. But Junod says he recognizes Vogel's . He woke up in the morning and prayed, and wrote, and prayed for people. I mean, to be honest with you, Ive been going and going in front of a crowd [suddenly, a lightbulb in Junods eyeview explodes in flames] Woah! Fred Rogers isn't even the central figure. A death ray! Matthew Rhys' character, the cynical Lloyd Vogel, is only loosely inspired by real-life journalist Tom Junod, hence the name change. While the film does look at the burgeoning friendship between Rogers (Tom Hanks) and writer Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), it focuses primarily on Vogel's personal life and how much it has been impacted by this newfound friendship. Fred turned it on, and as he says now, with plaintive distaste, "there were people throwing pies at one another." Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Ive gone on the road through this story and Ive become a spokesman not just for the movie, but for Fred, and its one of the great surprises of my life. Reading This 1998 Esquire Profile Of Mr. Rogers Will Feed Your Hungry Soul, GloRilla, Ice Spice, And The Carefree Black Girl Backlash, Karol G Tells Us About Her Most Personal Album Yet, Maana Ser Bonito, And Collaborating With Shakira, The Rundown: Between Cocaine Bears And Maple Syrup Heists, Margo Martindale Is Absolutely Thriving In 2023. Except that Mister Rogers wasn't going anywhere. Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Yeah, he would. I mean, if that was Tom Junod with bunny ears, I dont know how I would have responded. One second, two seconds, three secondsand now the jaws clenched, and the bosoms heaved, and the mascara ran, and the tears fell upon the beglittered gathering like rain leaking down a crystal chandelier, and Mister Rogers finally looked up from his watch and said, "May God be with you" to all his vanquished children. TJ: Thats a great question. It's his natural instinct to try and take Mister . 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