‘Jojo Rabbit’ Featurette: How Taika Waititi Made His Anti-Hate Satire
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2019 5:00 pm EST
Jojo Rabbit Featurette
But in the featurette, Waititi is aware that he walks a thin line with this satire, and that he doesn’t want the comedy to overshadow the message of love and tolerance he wants to spread.
“I wanted to make sure that it didn’t just seem like I was making a weird comedy amongst a really traumatic, violent, and tumultuous time period in history,” Waititi says in the featurette. “It’s really easy to get caught up in this idea that you’re entertaining people with laughs and ridiculous moments. I just had to make sure that I wasn’t letting that get the better of the story and take over essentially what was the main message which is we need to be more tolerant, and spread more love and less hate.”
Jojo Rabbit stars Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Thomasin McKenzie, Rebel Wilson, and newcomer Roman Griffin Davis as JoJo.
Here is the synopsis for Jojo Rabbit:
Jojo Rabbit opens in theaters on October 18, 2019.
Writer director Taika Waititi (THOR: RAGNAROK, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, JOJO RABBIT, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as JoJo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
