Play Spielberg in a film directed by Spielberg? No pressure
When Gabriel LaBelle landed the role of Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's autobiographical new film "The Fabelmans," playing a version of the filmmaker in his teenage years, he figured he'd probably show up in the movie's second act and then disappear after a handful of scenes.
After all, it's not as if Hollywood's all-time highest-grossing director was about to place a huge chunk of his life story in the hands of a complete unknown, right?
Then LaBelle received the script.
"I started folding the page of each scene I was in — and then I just stopped folding pages because I was in everything," the 20-year-old LaBelle said on a recent morning as he sat next to an Indiana Jones pinball machine in the game room of
