Wrap Screening Series: ‘Boyhood’ Director Richard Linklater Clears Up ‘Misunderstanding’ of the Best Picture Oscar Nominee (Video)

“Boyhood” writer and director Richard Linklater clarified what he believes is a misconception about his Best Picture of the Year nominee, which follows the development of a teenage boy, played by Ellar Coltrane, over 12 real years.

“I think there is a misunderstanding that I would, like, take things from [the cast members’] lives and put them in the movie,” Linklater told an audience at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday following TheWrap‘s Award Series screening of the film. “I never really did that. I don’t think there is one thing in this movie that is from Ellar or Lorelei’s actual life.”