{"id":29344,"date":"2025-04-09T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29344"},"modified":"2025-04-12T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T04:27:07","slug":"sacramento-michael-angarano-maya-erskine-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29344","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sacramento\u2019 Filmmaker Michael Angarano and Partner Maya Erskine Team For a Road Comedy (Video Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Angarano has been acting since he was eight years old, but he\u2019s also made forays into directing, including his new movie, <\/span><b><i>Sacramento<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a mature dramedy that pairs him with many of the actors he\u2019s known for much of his life, including his partner and children\u2019s mother, Maya Erskine (<\/span><b><i>Mr. and Mrs. Smith<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Sacramento<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angarano plays Rickey, who has an encounter with Forbes\u2019 Tallie early in the movie. Years later, he coerces his childhood friend Glenn (Michael Cera) to join him on road trip to Sacramento, much to the concern of Glenn\u2019s pregnant wife (played by Kristen Stewart), who is unhappy about her husband going off with his annoying friend. It turns out that Rickey has ulterior motives for the road trip in hope of reuniting with Tallie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cinema Daily US<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had a chance to speak with Angarano and Erskine about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacramento<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a video you can watch above. Angarano spoke about how the idea for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacramento <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">came along with Forbes telling us how she had signed on to make the movie before they were in a relationship. They also talk about casting Cera and Kristen Stewart as well as famed WWE superstar A.J. \u201cLee\u201d Mendez, and about how they work things out between each of them working vs. taking care of the kids.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacramento<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2024, and it will be released in theaters on Friday, April 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHJXaNHan3UWwwUKozSB2BQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Check out more of CinemaDaily US\u2019 video interviews on our YouTube channel<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29346\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SacramentoPoster-696x1031.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Director: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Angarano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Screenwriter:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Michael Angarano, Christopher Nicholas Smith<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cast: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Angarano, Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, Maya Erskine, Rosalind Chao, A.J. Mendez,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Producer: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Abernathy, Michael Angarano, Stephen Braun, Eric B. Fleischman, Sam Grey, Christopher Nicholas Smith<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Production Co: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bee-Hive Productions, The Wonder Company<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distributor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vertical\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rating:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> R (Language)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Genre:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Comedy, Drama<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> English<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Release Date (Theaters):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> April 11, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Runtime:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1 hour, 24 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>If you like this video interview, please share your comments below.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-douglasgmail-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out more of Edward Douglas\u2019 articles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can watch the trailer below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jZRbFs_WhX0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sacramento | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZRbFs_WhX0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Angarano has been acting since he was eight years old, but he\u2019s also made forays into directing, including his new movie, Sacramento, a mature dramedy that pairs him with many of the actors he\u2019s known for much of his life, including his partner and children\u2019s mother, Maya Erskine (Mr. and Mrs. Smith). In Sacramento,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":29378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[26667,26668,26672,26670,2647,26666,7376,8374,4100,21642,26671,26669,2796],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Angarano and Maya Erskine on Sacramento<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cinema Daily US speaks with Sacramento director and star Michael Angarano and his real-life partner Maya Erskine.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29344\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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