The new movie, adapted from the Tony Award-winning play, is a story familiar to any family that has gathered together for a bumpy holiday celebration. The cast reunited to tell «Sunday Morning» what they are most grateful for this Thanksgiving.
Look familiar? The new film «The Humans» follows the most time-honored recipe of all for Thanksgiving dinner: food, family, and a whole lot of drama. The movie, out this week on Showtime (a ViacomCBS company), is based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, about a family gathered at a couple’s newly-rented New York City apartment. Steven Yeun and Beanie Feldstein are the couple; Jayne Houdyshell (who won a Tony for originating the role on Broadway) is her Mom; Richard Jenkins is her Dad; and Amy Schumer is the big sister. June Squibb also stars as Grandma. The apartment itself is a nightmare, so correspondent Tracy Smith met up with the cast at the slightly more elegant Gotham Bar and Grill in Manhattan. Smith asked, «What do you think it is about Thanksgiving that lends itself to family drama?» «It is intense; Thanksgiving is intense,» Schumer replied. «I turn into, like, ‘son’ whenever I go back home,» Yeun laughed. «That’s your role, that’s your predesignated role?» «Yeah. And you have to, like, battle that, expand that, but also honor that.» Houdyshell said, «I mean, the meal’s nice, but basically the kind of things that I think about are the preparation with my sisters.
