In a 2017 interview with Vulture, Cuarón mirrored on the newfound acclaim that “Youngsters of Males” has acquired through the years and touched on working with Caine, even when they occurred to be on reverse sides of the political spectrum. Ten years on at that time, right-wing populism was on the rise within the age of Trump and Brexit, and Cuarón commented on how “Youngsters of Males” felt like it could have been making predictions about our future. “A really unhappy reality is that folks, they have been speaking concerning the stuff that is been occurring. Individuals have been warning about it.” The director went on to say that, for all its prescient social commentary, “‘Youngsters of Males’ is a product of that. ‘Youngsters of Males is just not a prophetic piece.”
Maybe that humble perspective is without doubt one of the explanation why Cuarón and Caine labored so properly collectively. Cuarón by no means claimed to be a soothsayer, and because of this, “Youngsters of Males” is extra a story of survival. Theo meets Jasper initially of his journey after which embarks on an virtually Odyssean journey. Once they have been filming that first pot-smoking scene, Cuarón did not even know that Caine was a conservative. They only bonded over John Lennon. The director recalled:
“Once we met, I suppose we related as a result of he met John Lennon, and he stated, ‘Can I play as if I used to be John?’ I stated, ‘That is improbable.’ However then we’re doing the pot-smoking scene, and at some second, Michael began to get that I wasn’t very conservative. I can inform that for a second, Michael thinks, Why am I sitting right here?”
