Lewis Pullman said on April 30 that working with Sally Field in Remarkably Bright Creatures was “very freeing and very exciting,” as he promoted the film at its premiere in Los Angeles. The 33-year-old actor also said his father, Bill Pullman, has given him career advice without trying to steer him down a single path.
“He’s very much in my corner and gives a lot of career advice,” Pullman said, adding that his father is not the kind of parent who says, “Do it this way, do it that way.” Instead, he said, Bill Pullman has let him “carve my own path” and “make my own mistakes and learn from them—and I think that’s helped me a lot in so many ways.”
The film brings Lewis Pullman into a cast that includes Field, a connection that also reaches back through his father. Bill Pullman worked with Field in the 2019 National Theatre Live production of All My Sons, though Lewis Pullman said he never got the chance to meet her after seeing his father perform in it. He said the new project was “beautiful and challenging” and that he was struck by how much it affected him.
“It’s a heartbreaking story and I didn’t go back and say to Sally afterward because I was so kind of paralyzed from that experience,” he said. “It affected me so much.”
That reaction helps explain why the film may land with audiences when it opens on May 8. Pullman said every scene brought “something new and something surprising,” and he praised Field’s approach as an actor who is “so in tune with the moment and with her instincts.” He said she knew the character and story so well that his job was to react and stay present, which made the work feel both open and demanding.
The family connection gives the film an easy hook, but Pullman’s comments show the more interesting part: he is not being handed a lane by his father, and he is not treating Field as a distant legend. He is stepping into a project that tested him, alongside an actor he had long known only through someone else’s career, and he is describing that experience as a turning point rather than a pedigree note.
What happens next is simple. Remarkably Bright Creatures reaches audiences on May 8, and the question is whether the same mix of family history and fresh chemistry that Pullman described on the carpet translates on screen.