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. 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. Appearance, presentation, looks. Thats what I actually pray for. Second mook: "Fuck that. However, he also said in the Atlantic piece that his father was a flawed man, "a fetishist of his own fragrant masculinity." . And my essay from 1998 is the intro for that. He wrote, "I was well aware of his eccentricity, but unlike my character in the script, I had never rejected him or his message, which was that nothing is more important about a man than the way he looks, the way he carries himself, and the mystery of what my father called his 'allure. Fred was all person by person. It was one of those swords that really isn't a sword at all; it was a big plastic contraption with lights and sound effects, and it was the kind of sword used in defense of the universe by the heroes of the television shows that the little boy liked to watch. And yet, here I am. He was born with cerebral palsy. Would you like to tell me about Old Rabbit, Tom?. Second mook: "Huh. Of course, she knew who Mister Rogers was, because she had grown up with him, and she knew that he was good for her son, and so now, with her little boy zombie-eyed under his blond bangs, she apologized, saying to Mister Rogers that she knew he was in a rush and that she knew he was here in Penn Station taping his program and that her son usually wasn't like this, he was probably just tired. And in a lot of ways, things that couldnt happen on a person by person level could happen on media, because its mob versus invisible person. I do think that if you transported Fred through time from then til now, would he try? Koko was much bigger than Mister Rogers. He was thunderstruck. It's his natural instinct to try and take Mister . You were a child once, too. TJ: I mean, I never had that nightmare, but very interesting. As he gets to know the children's TV show host . Oh, and Ill bet the two of you were together since he was a very young rabbit. Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) probes the state-of-mind of his interviewer, Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) Somehow, the loss of Mr. Rogers, a thoroughly decent man who preached a gospel of kindness to generations of children, aches much more in a social and political landscape awash in anger and pain (and "leadership" that sets that tone). I sat in an old armchair and looked around. ESQ: Another interesting thing in your piece is how you talk about how theres still a hunger for spreading goodness in the world. 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. I was okay with Lloyd Vogel with bunny ears. Her name was Deb. "I imagine they're blue.". I sat in an old armchair and looked around. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of navy-blue canvas boating sneakers. TJ: Thats a great question. So far, its worked pretty well. 'I love you.' He had already won his third Daytime Emmy, and now he went onstage to accept Emmy's Lifetime Achievement Award, and there, in front of all the soap-opera stars and talk-show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned jaws and jutting saltwater bosoms, he made his small bow and said into the microphone, "All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Does it mean anything? Lloyd has daddy issues, which Junod did not (at least not in the same way) something he outlines in a recent piece about Rogers for The Atlantic Monthly. Today marks the 10th anniversary of his death. His name was Fred Rogers. Would you like to tell me about Old Rabbit, Tom?". He was so nervous, in fact, that when Mister Rogers did visit, he got mad at himself and began hating himself and hitting himself, and his mother had to take him to another room and talk to him. "Thank you for calling, my dear," he said, in a voice whose . And I just think that its a trap; I think its false. The doctors were ophthalmologists. He was starting a television program, aimed at children, called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Then he looked at me and smiled. The place was drab and dim, with the smell of stalled air and a stain of daguerreotype sunlight on its closed, slatted blinds, and Mister Rogers looked so at home in its gloomy familiarity that I thought he was going to fall back asleep when suddenly the phone rang, startling him. The premise of the moviebased on a profile of Rogers that the journalist Tom Junod wrote in 1998, for Esquireis that an investigative reporter named Lloyd Vogel (played by Matthew Rhys), who . Everything we can't stop loving . 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. 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. Three of the doors are opened to reveal the familiar faces of Lady Aberlin, King Friday, and Mr. McFeely.The fourth door is opened to reveal the face of Mr. Rogers' troubled new friend, Lloyd Vogel, who has a cut near his nose. Once upon a time, Mister Rogers went to New York City and got caught in the rain. The tie is next, the scanty black batwing of a bow tie hand-tied at his slender throat, and then the shirt, always white or light blue, whisked from his body button by button. It wasnt like Fred was just a kind man who worked at the local food bank. Junod has stated that his encounter with Rogers changed his perspective on life. Your prayers are just wonderful." There are many people who follow the legacy of kindness, but I dont know of anybody who follows his legacy of kindness in media. Welcome, Tom, he said with a slight bow, and bade me follow him inside, where he lay downno, stretched out, as though he had known me all his lifeon a couch upholstered with gold velveteen. Tick, Tick . If this brutal, extended winter has you feeling down and cranky I suggest you give it a read. He looked very little in the backseat of the car. The character of the writer in the movie, Lloyd Vogel, is not amused. "Looks a bit likeOld Rabbit, doesn't it, Tom? And the fact that Im talking to you at a fashion show with a turtleneck on, you know, the irony is not lost on me. The answer to: What did Fred want? Lloyd Vogel (based loosely on the real life journalist Tom Junod) is the anti-heroic protagonist of the 2019 drama film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.An embittered, self-absorbed, antisocial Esquire journalist who holds a grudge towards his philanderous father Jerry for abandoning his family, Lloyd is assigned to profile children's television host Fred Rogers for a magazine issue about . He prayed every day of his life. Nearly every morning of his life, Mister Rogers has gone swimming, and now, here he is, standing in a locker room, seventy years old and as white as the Easter Bunny, rimed with frost wherever he has hair, gnawed pink in the spots where his dry skin has gone to flaking, slightly wattled at the neck, slightly stooped at the shoulder, slightly sunken in the chest, slightly curvy at the hips, slightly pigeoned at the toes, slightly aswing at the fine bobbing nest of himself and yet when he speaks, it is in that voice, his voice, the famous one, the unmistakable one, the televised one, the voice dressed in sweater and sneakers, the soft one, the reassuring one, the curious and expository one, the sly voice that sounds adult to the ears of children and childish to the ears of adults, and what he says, in the midst of all his bobbing nudity, is as understated as it is obvious: "Well, Tom, I guess you've already gotten a deeper glimpse into my daily routine than most people have.". He had just come back from visiting Koko, the gorilla who has learnedor who has been taughtAmerican Sign Language. I mean, one of the great surprises of my life is doing this. Read it all when you have time, especially if youre binging on House of Cards this weekend. But the boy was shaking his head no, and Mister Rogers was sneaking his face past the big sword and the armor of the little boy's eyes and whispering something in his earsomething that, while not changing his mind about the hug, made the little boy look at Mister Rogers in a new way, with the eyes of a child at last, and nod his head yes. Tom Junod's "Can You Say . [Junod gets up, alerts others to the now-smoking lightbulb, and returns with potato chips to share.]. 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. He clearly wanted me to pray. A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD - Official Trailer (HD), What Mr Rogers Was Leading Tom Junod to All Along, Read Tom Junod's Iconic Mr. Rogers Profile, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. At first, I chalked this up to some Neighborhood of Make-Believe voodoo energy, but now I have a legit answer. "And now if you don't mind," he said without a hint of shame or embarrassment, "I have to find a place to relieve myself," and then off he went, this ecstatic ascetic, to take a proud piss in his corner of heaven. 2:27. "Do you think we can go in?" Architects are people who create big things from the little designs they draw on pieces of paper. TJ: I mean, the tents great, but the tents intentional. The movie is about Lloyd Vogel, (Matthew Rhys), an investigative journalist who receives an assignment to profile noted children's television host Fred Rogers, . 0:00. "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is loosely based on the 1998 Esquire profile of the beloved TV host. Did you have any special friends growing up? 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 . Junod and Rogers exchanged dozens of emails that would . Freds favorite saying from all of literature was, That which is essential is invisible to the eye, from The Little Prince. Now he was stepping in front of the camera as Mister Rogers, and he wanted to do things right, and whatever he did right, he wanted to repeat. 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. I'll let y'all know. "Remind you of anyone, Tom?" '", In fact, Junod's current project is a book about his relationship to his father, Lou Junod. Fred Rogers loved her very much, and so, out of nowhere, he smiled and put his hand over hers. Oh, Margy Whitmer tried to keep people away from him, tried to tell people that if they gave her their names and addresses, Mister Rogers would send them an autographed picture, but every time she turned around, there was Mister Rogers putting his arms around someone, or wiping the tears off someone's cheek, or passing around the picture of someone's child, or getting on his knees to talk to a child. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. 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. Per his piece in The Atlantic, Junod asked the writers for some changes after reading an early draft of the script in April 2016. ESQ: Thats where Im at right now. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (opens Nov. 22) tells the story of one writer's experience profiling Fred Rogers . "Fred, they're not home. I said, 'Do you know that you're strong on the inside, too?' I mean, he was in favor of thatmedia should be human. She worked very hard at writing the chapter, until one day she showed what she had written to Mister Rogers, who read it and crossed it all out and wrote a sentence addressed directly to the doctors who would be reading it: "You were a child once, too.". Who wrote the article about Mr Rogers in Esquire magazine? Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. Lloyd Vogel Is Based On A Real Journalist Who Praises The Mr. Rogers Biopic. he asked, and then handed me the phone. And so we went to the graveyard. I told him I didn't mind, and when, five minutes later, I took the elevator to his floor, well, sure enough, there was Mister Rogers, silver-haired, standing in the golden door at the end of the hallway and wearing eyeglasses and suede moccasins with rawhide laces and a flimsy old blue-and-yellow bathrobe that revealed whatever part of his skinny white calves his dark-blue dress socks didn't hide. The movie is loosely based on Tom Junod's life around 1998 when he wrote an article on Mr. Rogers for Esquire magazine. His personal story is changed too. 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 . What I'm buying is a ticket to the fucking Lotto. I like to take pictures of all my new friends, so that I can show them to Joanne. And then, in the dark room, there was a wallop of white light, and Mister Rogers disappeared behind it. It's not a good word. Fred" But Mister Rogers was out of the car, with his camera in his hand and his legs moving so fast that the material of his gray suit pants furled and unfurled around both of his skinny legs, like flags exploding in a breeze. "Thanks, my dear," he said to me, then turned back to Deb. 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. And I dont know which take they use, but it was hard for Tom to do that. 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 . I had never prayed like that before, ever. A woman was with him, sitting in a big chair. Hero?" is about Mr. Rogers as much as it is . He just waited patiently, and when the boy came back, Mister Rogers talked to him, and then he made his request. 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. ", "Old Rabbit. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (opens Nov. 22) tells the story of one writer's experience profiling Fred Rogers, otherwise known as Mister Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. 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. He clearly believed in prayer as a way of life. . That was a challenge. It depicts Lloyd Vogel (Rhys), a troubled journalist for Esquire who is assigned to profile television icon Fred Rogers (Hanks). 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. ESQ: So its like we dont knowwith the popular mediums we have nowhow to show kindness or come up to each other. Thats as far as I want to go, you know? In the film, actor Matthew Rhys plays central character Lloyd Vogel, a journalist who's writing a profile on the legendary creator of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire. Mr. Rogers explains that Lloyd has . Once upon a time, you see, I lost something, and prayed to get it back, but when I lost it the second time, I didn't, and now this was it, the missing word, the unuttered promise, the prayer I'd been waiting to say a very long time. . He moved his hand from her wrist to her palm and extended his other hand to me. Will you pray for me?" "he turned into Mister Fucking Rogers. After a while, Margy just rolled her eyes and gave up, because it's always like this with Mister Rogers, because the thing that people don't understand about him is that he's greedy for thisgreedy for the grace that people offer him. Really, I think its just that Tom Junod is a guy who stands out in a crowd. His name was Old Rabbit., Old Rabbit. Except that Mister Rogers wasn't going anywhere. 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The film deals with Vogel, who is plagued by his own hate of his dying father, being assigned to write a short, 400-word profile on Rogers. Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers, the minister who became a children's TV host then beacon of hope for a struggling society, and also the person who saves Lloyd. Yeah, he would. Fred Rogers, whose gentle . "But Mister Rogers, I can't pray," Joybubbles said, "because every time I try to pray, I forget the words. 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 story and have no baring on . If You Loved The New Mr. Rogers Movie, Wait Until You Read What It's Based On. Maybe it was something he needed to hear. No, not that he weighed 143 pounds, but that he weighs 143 pounds. He is not speaking of the little girl. You know that they shot it with like the original cameras. "If Mister Fucking Rogers can tell me how to read that fucking clock, I'll watch his show every day for a fucking 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 his waist and opened his mouth wide with astonishment, like someone trying to catch a peanut he had tossed into the air, until it became clear that Mister Rogers could show that he was astonished all day if he had to, or even forever, because Mister Rogers lives in a state of astonishment, and the astonishment he showed when he looked at the clock was the same astonishment he showed when peopleabsolute strangerswalked up to him and fed his hungry ear with their whispers, and he turned to me, with an open, abashed mouth, and said, "Oh, Tom, if you could only hear the stories I hear!". Junod is also noted for his Esquire profile of Fred Rogers. I have actually tried, since that moment, Ive tried to pray. He woke up in the morning and prayed, and wrote, and prayed for people. If . And so that's what I told him. "Bunny Wunny," she says. ", "Yes, Mister Rogers. And so when he threw Old Rabbit out the car window the next time, it was gone for good. On this day, however, he is premature by a considerable extent, and so Margy, who has been with Mister Rogers since 1983because nobody who works for Mister Rogers ever leaves the Neighborhoodcomes running over, papers in hand, and says, "Not so fast there, buster. Enjoy a year of unlimited access to The Atlanticincluding every story on our site and app, subscriber newsletters, and more. And I called Joanne [Rogers] after that and said, What do you think about that? And she was like, You know, Fred would never represent that. That seems so obvious, but I think to a lot of people its not obvious because I think that the temptation of being able to think that yelling at somebody on the street, youre somehow striking a blow. 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. No, he had to show it, he had to demonstrate it, and that's how Mister Rogers and the people who work for him eventually got the idea of coming to New York City to visit a woman named Maya Lin. He couldn't just say it, the way he could always just say to the children who watch his program that they are special to him, or even sing it, the way he would always sing "It's You I Like" and "Everybody's Fancy" and "It's Such a Good Feeling" and "Many Ways to Say I Love You" and "Sometimes People Are Good." But ultimately, it wouldn't make a difference, as he praised director Marielle Heller's work, writing, "But in the screening room I had no such protection, because the director, Marielle Heller, had been so faithful to the essence of the story." Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. I wanted to be him." Lloyd decides to treat the profile as an investigation to find out if Mr. Rogers is just a character for the . Lloyd's father Jerry (Chris Cooper) abandoned him as a child and keeps trying to reconnect, by Lloyd rejects him. 'I love you.'. Im just wondering on your end, where has your relationship with prayer landed now, and do you think it will continue to change? He wanted something from the boy, and Mister Rogers never leaves when he wants something from somebody. Hmmm. he asked her, and when she said yes, he said, "Oh, thank you, my dear." Or do you take elements of what you see of the best men in your life, and try and put it together into one person? "Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet . ESQUIRE: In your Atlantic piece, you talk about how theres no true successor to Mister Rogers. If we wanted to go into the house, we should have called first. Maya Lin is a famous architect. But Junod says he recognizes Vogel's . 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. On this afternoon, the end of a hot, yellow day in New York City, he was very tired, and when I asked if I could go to his apartment and see him, he paused for a moment and said shyly, "Well, Tom, I'm in my bathrobe, if you don't mind." Isn't that wonderful?". "Will you be with me when I die?" Browse featured articles, preview selected issue contents, and more. She weighed 280 pounds, and Mister Rogers weighed 143. But its the unintentional stuff that I think is really true to life. What kind of prayer has only three words? ESQ: You wrote in the original piece that he didnt even watch TV. Because Mister Rogers is such a busy man, however, he could not write the chapter himself, and he asked a woman who worked for him to write it instead. She and the boy lived together in a city in California, and although she wanted very much for her son to meet Mister Rogers, she knew that he was far too disabled to travel all the way to Pittsburgh, so she figured he would never meet his hero, until one day she learned through a special foundation designed to help children like her son that Mister Rogers was coming to California and that after he visited the gorilla named Koko, he was coming to meet her son. Mr. Rogers, fully aware of this, still invites . Now, what the fuck is grace?" He wanted us to pray. A minute ago we were stand-ins for children watching the show; now we seem to be somehow inside the brain of Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a cynical Esquire reporter tasked with profiling Rogers for . 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. For my father, everything that was important was visible to the eye. In trying to strip away Mr. Rogers . 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. Or maybe, if the truth be told, Mister Rogers went into battle against a little boy with a big sword, for Mister Rogers didn't like the big sword. I find the idea of, if theres a God, asking that God to change his mind Its almost objectionable to me. Twenty minutes later, I got off the train, chose the closest of the stations 14 exits to start my Junod scavenger hunt from, reached the top of the stairs, turned to cross the street, and, wow, okayover on the other end, red turtleneck, black suit, there he is. TJ: I think the mediums themselves sort of make us prejudiced against that. Tom Junod / Lloyd Vogel experiences this first hand as he tries to get Mr. Rogers to come "out of character". 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. Fred turned it on, and as he says now, with plaintive distaste, "there were people throwing pies at one another." A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (opens Nov. 22) tells the story of one writer's experience profiling Fred Rogers, otherwise known as Mister Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.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 . There are some stories we can analyze all we want, but sometimes there are stories in which, no matter how much we pick them apart, what's on the surface for us to appreciate is more . TJ: Yeah, yeah. 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. The Real-Life Lloyd Vogel: Tom Junod is the real-life reporter on whom the character of Lloyd Vogel is based. 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