Colin Farrell has one of the harder jobs in Saving Mr. Banks, playing the outwardly lovable but inwardly tortured father of author P.L. Travers, whose life and death helped to create Mary Poppins, one of the most beloved literary characters of the 20th Century, and the subject of Walt Disney’s really quite different Oscar-winning motion picture. I sat down with Colin Farrell to discuss the differences between P.L. Travers’ version of Mary Poppins and the one audiences fell in love with in the 1964 musical classic.
Saving Mr. Banks opens in select theaters on December 13, 2013, before expanding nationwide on December 20.
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William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and co-host of The B-Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
