tell a story

“It seemed exciting to be able to tell a story in the past that somehow reverberated in the present. And then folding that into a genre piece that reminded me of films I went to, real crowd-pleasers of the ’70s and ’80s that are a thrill to watch.

“The Thing is a really special character, and he’s Jewish so it was very natural to tell a story through his point of view,” says Becca Topol, “Spidey’s’’ story editor and co-producer.

“You can tell a story here or there of, ‘Hey, Tuesday afternoon I was playing goalie at my girls’ soccer practice … and my girls were yelling at me because I was afraid of the ball or something,’” Stafford said.

“I’m focused on finding fabrics that tell a story about why I’m attached to them, why they make me feel a certain way.”

He likes to tell a story how he managed to talk himself into the Oval Office when he was on a school trip to Washington as a teenager.