Yes, Louis C.K. dares to go there: No stranger to upending convention, he puts sexual taboo at heart of 'Daddy'
by By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times
Sep 14, 2017
3 minutes
TORONTO - About two-thirds of the way through his new directorial effort "I Love You, Daddy," comedian Louis C.K. presents a conversation you don't hear much, well, anywhere: His character and a love interest played by Rose Byrne sit on a bed and discuss social attitudes about sex between older men and teenage girls.
C.K.'s character, a successful if bumbling TV showrunner named Glen Topher, has just seen his 17-year-old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) go off to Paris with a 68-year-old director (John Malkovich, in maximum slow-talk creepiness). Glen is horrified by the prospect and
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