{"id":993630,"date":"2026-08-11T03:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/993630\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:26:26","slug":"j-j-abrams-on-the-end-of-oak-street-daughter-gracies-acting-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/993630\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams on ‘The End of Oak Street,’ Daughter Gracie’s Acting Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhile the internet has been filled with fan theories around the new sci-fi adventure The End of Oak Street<\/a>, producer J.J. Abrams<\/a> is quick to cut some of them down. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, directed by David Robert Mitchell, follows a family (led by Anne Hathaway<\/a> and Ewan McGregor) whose suburban street is suddenly uprooted and lands among the dinosaurs in prehistoric times. In the lead-up to its release, some online have speculated that the movie is secretly connected to Abrams\u2019 Cloverfield<\/a> franchise. However, the filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter at the L.A. premiere that this was not the case.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe only connection to our Cloverfield movies is that Ewan\u2019s partner is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who was the star of 10 Cloverfield Lane, who we were very lucky to get to work with and who I adore,\u201d Abrams said. \u201cSo there was that, but other than that, people are just making connections that they happen to see.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe producer also explained the decision to take on a dinosaur genre that has long been dominated by the Jurassic Park franchise, saying, \u201cThis was a movie set in suburban America \u2014 our neighborhoods, our backyards, our living rooms \u2014 so to have dinosaurs in that world, in our world, there was a juxtaposition that was so immediately exciting. It wasn\u2019t just cool dinosaurs; it was dinosaurs interacting with things and people and our front lawn, and suddenly it was a very different experience even reading it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAside from his day job, Abrams is also dad to pop star Gracie Abrams<\/a>, who will soon be making her acting debut<\/a> in an A24\u00a0movie from\u00a0Babygirl\u00a0director\u00a0Halina Reijn. Of his daughter crossing over to join his side of the industry, the filmmaker said, \u201cI know how hard she\u2019s working to do all she\u2019s doing so I\u2019m thrilled for her. As a parent, all you can do is hope that the work that your kids do fulfills them, so as long as that\u2019s what\u2019s happening, and I know how hard she\u2019s working, I\u2019m thrilled for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe End of Oak Street hits theaters on Friday. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the internet has been filled with fan theories around the new sci-fi adventure The End of Oak…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,398237,171,2879,24493,154194,368202,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-993630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cloverfield","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-gracie-abrams","tag-j-j-abrams","tag-the-end-of-oak-street","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117074748168985916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}