{"id":34683,"date":"2026-06-29T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=34683"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:16:04","slug":"young-washington-exclusive-interview-with-director-jon-erwin-kelsey-grammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=34683","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Young Washington&#8221; : Exclusive Interview with Director Jon Erwin &#038; Kelsey Grammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Angel Studios<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\"><strong>Check out more of our Youtube Channel\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<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>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34684 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Young-Washington-poster-697x1024.png\" alt=\"Young Washington \" width=\"696\" height=\"1023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Young-Washington-poster-697x1024.png 697w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Young-Washington-poster-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Young-Washington-poster-768x1128.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Young-Washington-poster-696x1022.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Young-Washington-poster.png 862w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Washington<\/strong> : Before he was the Father of a Nation, he was a soldier fighting to survive. A single misstep thrusts young George Washington into the center of a global conflict, testing his honor, loyalty, and courage. As alliances crumble and the frontier erupts into war, he must confront not only his enemies but the man he&#8217;s becoming. This is the untold story of Young Washington.<\/p>\n<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>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> : Jon Erwin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Adam Abel, Jon Erwin, Chip Diggins, Benton Crane, Edmund Sampson, Tyler Zacharia, Kristopher Kimlin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Jon Erwin, Jon Erwin, Tom Provost, Diederik Hoogstraten<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> : Angel Studios<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : Wonder Project<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating<\/strong> : PG-13 (Some Bloody Images|Strong War Violence)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : History, Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : Jul 3, 2026, Wide<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong> : 2h 5m<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=2\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LJek-kc384w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Young Washington | Official Trailer | In Theaters July 3 | Angel, 2521 Entertainment, Wonder Project\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJek-kc384w?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<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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Angel Studios Check out more of our Youtube Channel\u00a0 Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20471],"tags":[31010,3116,6335,31012,31011,31013,30844,25731,30847,31015,31014,30845,30843],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Young Washington&quot; : Exclusive Interview with Director Jon Erwin &amp; Kelsey Grammer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Young Washington : Before he was the Father of a Nation, he was a soldier fighting to survive. 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