'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' trivia and fun facts
Emmy Jim Emswiller
Emmy-Award winner Jim Emswiller fell from a balcony around 7.30pm October 12th 2018 during a break in filming in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, authorities say. The 61-year-old Pittsburgh man died later at a hospital. Emswiller was involved in the sound production of the film. Mount Lebanon police say Emswiller fell over a brick wall on the balcony at an apartment building.
The Sesame Street stamp
The puppets used in the film are not the originals but instead are meticulous recreations by the puppet makers for Sesame Street.
Tom Hanks, the perfect actor
Fred Rogers' widow, Joanne Rogers, has stated that Tom Hanks is the perfect actor to play her late husband.
What a lucky woman is Heller!
Marielle Heller is longtime friends with Tom Hanks' son Colin, and met the former at a birthday party in which she pitched him the project. Heller claimed that access was fortunate because Hanks had put out the word through his agency that he wanted a break from playing real-life people and to not send him those scripts.
Real lives expert
This is the eighth film where Tom Hanks has portrayed an actual person from real life.
30 years ago...
In a scene in the feature film, 'The Burbs' (1989), Tom Hanks's character, Ray Peterson is watching a television episode of 'MisteRogers' Neighborhood' (1968). Thirty years later, Tom Hanks would go on to portray Fred Rogers in this feature film.
Together again
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys previously starred together in 'The Post' (2017)