‘Yes Day’ Director Miguel Arteta on Why He Hopes Parents End up Doing a Real Yes Day

With Yes Day now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to director Miguel Arteta about making the fun family film. Based on the bestselling children’s book Yes Day, written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld, the film is about a mom (Jennifer Garner) and dad (Edgar Ramírez) who usually say no to everything allowing their kids (Ortega, Julian Lerner, and Everly Carganilla) 24 hours where they have to say yes to their requests. As you might imagine, chaos ensues and lessons are learned. Yes Day also stars Jenna Ortega, Fortune Feimster, Nat Faxon, Arturo Castro, and Molly Sims. During the interview, he talked about if he is prepared for all the families that are going to do a yes day because of this film, what it was like filming the big ice cream scene on the first day of shooting, trying to keep twenty-five kids under control while shooting the finale, if he had a longer cut, deleted scenes, and more. Miguel Arteta: • Is he prepared for all the families that