The Fabelmans: Spielberg gets personal with a look at his own life  

Steven Spielberg has assembled an impressive cast to take on the tale of a young boy who loves to make films 
The Fabelmans: Spielberg gets personal with a look at his own life  

Paul Dano and Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans.

“This movie is his life. You don’t want to ruin Steven Spielberg’s life!” laughs rising star Gabriel LaBelle when we sit down to talk about The Fabelmans, the veteran film-maker’s most personal movie yet, in which the 20-year-old plays the director’s likeness. 

“The first thing I asked him was ‘How much of this script really happened to you?’ And he said ‘All of it’.

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