My name is Marielle Heller. I’m the director of ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.’ “And trolley. Action.” [MUSIC PLAYING] So this scene is when Matthew Rhys’s character, Lloyd Vogel, has shown up to the studio to meet Fred Rogers for the first time. And they’ve had their first very short interview, and he has a chance to watch them film one of the episodes from the Neighborhood in the Land of Make Believe. “Hello, Lady Aberlin.” “Oh, hi, Daniel.” So technically, it was a very tricky scene. We filmed what we called ‘inside the show.’ Anything that was in the program, we filmed on these Ikegami cameras, these tube cameras that were just like the original cameras they filmed the real program on. We had a live feed going to these monitors, and then we were filming on a digital Alexa camera, so we were capturing two physical formats of the show at the same time. So all of the cameras that you’re seeing that look like props, they’re actually working cameras that are also filming the program inside the show. And we wanted to recreate the way they really made the show, so we filmed it in the actual studio where they filmed ‘Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’ originally in Pittsburgh. We recreated the set in the exact same orientation that they had it as well and really looked at plans of where they would have had their cameras, and then we set up our cameras sort of one step behind that so we could kind of pull back and watch the making of the show. ”(SINGING) When the whole wide world seems oh so wrong and nothing you do seems very right.” But we didn’t want to get too bogged down with the technical aspects of this scene because what’s actually happening in the scene is Lloyd is having a very big emotional turning point that starts to happen to him there, and that’s more important than any of the technical aspects that are happening. ”(SINGING) I can stop when I want to, can stop when I wish.” And then my secret is Tom Hanks didn’t actually know that I was focusing on him for this scene. He thought we were really just focusing on Daniel Tiger and Lady Aberlin and the scene as it was being captured for the program, but we were on Zoom lenses, which means the camera wasn’t actually pushing toward him. We were just zooming into him. He figured it out after a few takes, but he was so busy concentrating on the puppeteering that he was actually doing that he was not really very aware of what he was doing inside that clock. And so we used one of the takes before he realized that I was actually focusing on him. “Thank you, Lady Aberlin.” “Thank you, Daniel.” “I feel better.” “Oh, I’m so glad.”