"I WAS CAPTIVATED BY THE FILM'S ACTING & STORYTELLING, SO MUCH SO THAT I KNEW THEN WHAT I WANTED TO DO WITH MY LIFE"
Thanks to Christian Hamaker for sending along this profile of Jim Gaffigan from The Wall Street Journal's Marc Myers, in which Gaffigan talks about seeing Brian De Palma's Obsession when he was ten years old:
Mom was the most important person in my life. When I was 10, in 1976, she took my brother and me to see ‘Obsession,’ a movie that wasn’t especially age-appropriate. It’s about a guy whose wife and daughter are kidnapped. The rescue fails and his wife dies. The guy believes his daughter died, too, but she disappeared. Years later, he meets and falls in love with a young woman who looks just like his wife. It turns out to be his daughter. Yeah, I know. A fast track to therapy. But I was more captivated by the film’s acting and storytelling, so much so that I knew then what I wanted to do with my life.