Richard Linklater’s Animal Rescue Show Will Make You Feel Better About America
“It’s a beautiful day here,” Richard Linklater tells me. “I have my own pandemic refuge farm.”
The celebrated filmmaker behind Boyhood, Dazed & Confused, and the Before trilogy (to name a few), phoned me while strolling across his “acreage” in Central Texas, about 40 minutes outside Austin. And he appeared in good spirits, despite the country being just days away from one of the most important elections of our lifetime. And why wouldn’t he be? He’s surrounded by a medley of animals—ducks, donkeys, pigs, turkeys, and too many chickens to count—and his first big television series, That Animal Rescue Show, is debuting on CBS All-Access.
“I remember when they said they were going to release this around the election, I said, ‘Really? Could we be farther away from the climate of what everyone will be focused on?’” he recalled.
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