Cast your mind back to March 2020. While half the planet binged Tiger King, cultivated sourdough starters and stockpiled loo roll, John Krasinski was hard at work on Some Good News - a charmingly low-rent YouTube show with a single purpose: to put something positive into the world when the world needed it the most.
‘When I saw the power of that, and certainly how much I got out of it, I just said, “Well, what if I did a movie that was basically in movie form?”’ a typically affable Krasinski tells during a break from filming Guy Ritchie’s in the UK. ‘I thought, “Let’s make a movie that is a hug waiting there for everybody if they need it.”’ The process took on even greater urgency as the multi-hyphenate filmmaker observed the ‘lights go out’ behind his children’s eyes during lockdown, with imagination and courage rapidly taken over by uncertainty and fear. ‘All of a sudden, I was like, “Oh my god, I can’t stand by and allow this to be their reality.” So I immediately had the idea: “OK,
