Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

After the premier screening at Sundance and the subsequent hype of the film Leonard found himself in the spotlight appearing in magazine covers and getting roles for other movies. When he was six he was convinced by his father to appear in plays like Life With Father. After teaching poor children in Puebla working as a gardener and hiking through the jungles of Central and South America Leonard returned to the U.