He has been estranged from his father for 30 years, the actor tells EW.
Gets a letter in the mail from his father asking him to come see him.
And things take a turn for the worse.

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The whole process was cathartic and beautiful and creepy and sad.
Instead of producing, I used tomakefilms when I was young.
I was an obsessive video filmmaker, every weekend, and then I just went down another path.

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I was like, this is a wake-up call.
In the film, Wood sportsa memorable haircut-and-moustache combodesigned to reflect his characters hipster nature.
The haircut was sort of an evolution, says Wood.
Both for costume and just Norvals style in general, there were a lot of references.
Some of them were really extreme.
Ive now seen that cut in the wild a couple of times.
Ive seen it lots of times in the wild, Timpson says.
I keep trying to take photos to send.
I think its mainly baristas, Wood adds.
So, will Timpson wait around for another bizarre and traumatic event to inspire his next movie?
Well, Ive run out of parents, the director says with a hefty dose of black humor.
So unless the other family members start knocking off, its going to be tough.
But everything Im involved with has to have some sprt of personal connection, I think.
Toby and I get along great, and so we want to work together on something else.
Well see what happens.