Mayim Bialik on Directing Her First Movie

BY MARISA GUTHRIE As the Zoom window on my laptop flickers to life, I come face-to-face with the pointy, alien head of a hairless cat. Over the next hour, we will discuss Bialik's new movie "As They Made Us," which opens in theaters Friday and marks her screenwriting and directorial debut, and how she wrote it to process the death of her father, Barry, from multisymptom aphasia, a debilitating neurological disease that robs the body of basic functions. [...]once "Big Bang Theory" ended in 2019, Bialik finally had the mental bandwidth and enough distance to process her dad's 2015 death. "There are families all over the world who experience mental health challenges, alcoholism, trauma, abuse.