Dwier Brown

And the reason that father-son narrative was so potent is because of the incomprehensible reality of how the climax was filmed.

We talked about this at the very top of the show, but we need to explore exactly what the actor, Dwier Brown, went through

Dwier Brown plays John Kinsella, Ray's ghostly father as a young man.

He's the emotional payload of the entire two-hour runtime

Right, everything leads to him

The entire movie builds to the moment Ray asks his father to have a catch

And Dwier Brown had to shoot that scene literally hours after returning from his own real-life father's funeral.

He buried his dad, flew to Iowa, and had to stand on a baseball diamond and pretend to be the ghost of a father reconnecting with a grieving son