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GETTING EMOTIONAL WITH THE DUPLASS BROTHERS
GETTING EMOTIONAL WITH THE DUPLASS BROTHERS
Filmmaking brothers Mark and جے Duplass are sensitive guys. Depth of feeling is a theme throughout their work, which includes films like Jeff Who Lives at ہوم and Cyrus...
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called Mark and جے Duplass Interview on HBO دکھائیں Togetherness - Esquire
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
Michael Brown Sr. and the Agony of the Black Father in America
co-creators talk to us about how they work so well together, how they cope with success, and how often they cry (a lot).
On Mark (left): two-button cotton jacket ($750) by L.B.M. 1911; cotton t-shirt ($64) by AG; cotton jeans ($89) by Levi\'s; suede boots ($298) by Brooks Brothers // On Jay (right): two-button cotton jacket ($750) by L.B.M. 1911; cotton shirt ($295) by Massimo Alba; cotton jeans ($188) by AG; canvas slip-ons ($70), Vault by Vans. (Photograph by Aaron Richter)
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Filmmaking brothers Mark and Jay Duplass are sensitive guys. Depth of feeling is a theme throughout their work, which includes films like
, about young men trying to navigate a world that doesn\'t take it easy on the tender, the male midwife characters they play on
(premiering January 11), follows a couple (Melanie Lynskey and Mark) and their fuckup friends (Amanda Peet and the wonderful Steve Zissis) as they flail through the aimlessness of adulthood in Los Angeles.
ESQUIRE: Maybe its just because Mark acts so much more, but I feel like the public perception of you is a Penn and Teller, Jay and Silent Bob, Jack and Meg White kind of vibe. Do you foster that perception?
MARK DUPLASS: We dont foster it. I would say, historically, just by me being an actor, sometimes people assume that about us. But I think its not necessarily like that in our normal, everyday life. Whoever is in the better mood tends to come forward. Like for instance, if were heading into a shoot day and we both show up at the same time, I dont have to say anything and Jay doesnt have to say anything for that person to know whos kind of going to lead the charge today. We call it president and vice president mode.
ESQ: Do you think that people on set are aware of the shifting dynamic?
JAY DUPLASS: When I talk to crewmembers, they feel like were pretty interchangeable. The process is very organic and sort of this caveman way that we make movies, which is that we make it up as we go, and we pick up slack for each other and start sort of functioning as this singular being. Like, sometimes someone will have stronger energy. Mark does tend to have a little bit more outward energy than me, and I tend to have a little bit more inward, sort of emotional energy.
MD: Thats gonna shift in thirty minutes when I go into my sugar crash. Literally. It will.
JD: And then Ill pick up the slack and Ill be a little more forward with it. Ive talked to a few of our actors about it. Like, Yeah, it doesnt really matter whos talking to me at any given point in time. Im just discovering this now as youre asking it, but its definitely constant subconscious communication.
MD: Its like parenting. Like for those people who have kids, you start sussing out what the other parent is doing with the child that day, and if theyre coming in heavy and theyre less patient, you start being more patient and sensitive and scooping it up. And if theyre getting steamrolled, and youre like, "Well, I gotta fuckin lay down the law here." You know?
JD: On set were always just kind of weirdly working with energy. Like lets say you have a scene one day where the actor comes in and theyre just in a bad mood cause they had to get up at four in the morning and makeup was late and so they sat around for 45 minutes. Theyre fucking pissed off and theyre tired. They had a really hard scene last night. And the scene calls for them today to be really peppy. We know immediately that its probably not gonna be peppy. And so well just start feeling that actor out and well see what happens in the first take. And if its a big deal, maybe Mark and I will talk about it. Like, This dudes never gonna be peppy. But you know whats really interesting? Is how creepy he looks when hes trying to be peppy. And I think we can use that right now. We can totally use that. And because we are obsessed with the minutiae of how people behave and how theyre dealing with each other, were acknowledging a reality of what it is and then doing a little witchcraft to kind kick it back into our story.
MD: Its a big EST session, is really whats happening. Its 1973.
JD: You dont live in California. Let us tell you some stuff.
MD: We dont really know. Its like a very sensitive new age culture of people really obsessed with feelings. We share that DNA.
JD: Its like feelings taken to a philosophical level. Its like the study of feelings.
MD: Were in the business of feelings over here at Duplass Brothers Productions.
JD: Our autobiography is called Feelings and the People Who Feel Them.
MD: Sensitive Feelings and the Sensitive People Who Feel Them Sensitively.
ESQ: Ive interviewed married people before, but you guys are the most in-sync couple Ive talked with. Are your wives like, Youve already found your soul mate, where do I fit in?
MD: Its been an issue throughout our whole lives. Not just our wives, but our girlfriends, even our parents. And weve had conversations with sets of twins before about the nature of what it means to be so connected to some person. And if that person is not your spouse, whos supposed to be your number one, basically, what does that mean?
, actually, is that the two main guys are essentially soul mates, and what does that mean to the character that Mark plays, Brett, who is supposed to be in an egalitarian modern marriage where youre giving everything to that person, but its not in the cards. Its not like hes cheatinghes not cheating at allbut theres emotional cheating going on with his best buddy.
Its cool though, because its rare for siblings to stay close into middle age. I mean, I would say an average of very close relationship of siblings in their late thirties would be like, We watch football on Sundays together and we drink beer. If you did that every Sunday all year, everyone would be like, Oh my God, you guys are so close. We hang out every day, but the cool thing is we get to explore new frontiers together. Theres so much to making a movie. You fly around the country and you go on location scouts and then you build this thing and you have battles together against people who are trying to stop you from doing what youre trying to do.
ESQ: Youve clearly figured out how to grind out a film. Do people ask you for advice all the time?
MD: We get ten emails a day that say, I would love to meet up and have coffee and I would love to pick your brain about independent filmmaking. And what we used to do was lie and say, Oh, that sounds so great, I would love to do that, and lets do it when Im not busy later. And just keep putting them off with excuses. And we hate that because it drags people on. So now we say, I would love to be in a life where we could do this, but Im not living that life. Every moment we spend not working is spent with our wives and children, who we already dont give enough time to, so theres never, ever gonna be enough time for coffee. Im so sorry, but I cant do it. But we then email each person to say, But if you have five questions you would like to ask us, we can do it over email. Because thats probably what it is. And its always the same five questions, and we also have five answers prepared.
MD: You know, If I dont have any connections in the industry, how do I get started? Once I make my movie, how do I get it shown? How do you get money to make your movies? How did you find out exactly what your voice was going to be? Something that people tend to miss which took us a while to figure out is your quote-unquote voice probably has something to do with the last conversation you had between 1am and 3am in the morning with your siblings or your spouse or your best friends, where you were laughing a lot and kind of cried a bit and there was a weird hug.
JD: Yeah, your voice is not necessarily what you watch. We love the Coen brothers. We were obsessed with the Coen brothers, and we tried to be the Coen brothers so desperately that it actually fucked us up. It, like, literally delayed us from reaching what it is that we feel like we have to offer. It turns out, our style is the polar opposite. Theyre like the most controlled, stylized filmmakers working today, and were probably the least controlled, least stylized filmmakers working today.
MD: Did we tell you that were sensitive? Have we expressed this to you? Its not a brag; this is a warning.
"Our wives will tell you. It is not fun to be married to a really sensitive dude.
JD: It might sound like were trying to say, Oh, were so sensitive. No. Were saying, This is a warning. Our wives will tell you. It is not fun to be married to a really sensitive dude.
MD: Oh, I cry all the fucking time. Are you kidding? I cried on Metro North last night.
MD: I went up to Beacon because I was curious about it as a community. And it was raining, and I started reading Knausgaards
MD: This is the first time were getting competitive.
JD: I went to see my friend Gaby Hoffmann, who Im in this TV show
with, and I hadnt seen her in two-and-a-half monthsand she walked in, she was like crazy pregnant. And I was like, "Oh my God, theres baby in there." And she hugged me and
Its not hard.
ESQ: If you guys ever need a release, I would recommend watching
MD: Im not making this up. I read it on a plane. And the stewardess came up to me and asked me if everything was okay. Im not kidding you. Because I was disturbing the other passengers with my howls.
JD: Theres also a show, just in case, called
, and its about a man who helps people find their birth parents. And let me tell you, I am not fucking joking with you, you are guaranteed three ugly cries within a thirty-minute programming slot. Its better than any therapy you could do. We come home from a hard day at work, and youre just like, We gotta watch
MD: We love it. We love producing movies with younger filmmakers who are really smart and exciting. And part of it is selfish, too, because we get juiced up on that energy.
"The sadness of success is a thing. When you climb to the mountaintop and youre trying to get there your whole life and you get there. \'Im gonna be so happy now. Oh shit, Im just at the top of a mountain.\'"
MD: It sounds crazy, because its not like were massively successful, but the sadness of success is a thing. When you climb to the mountaintop and youre trying to get there your whole life and you get there. "Im gonna be so happy now. Oh shit, Im just at the top of a mountain." And so us juice-ifying on younger filmmakers and stuff is nice.
ESQ: Do you know what it kind of sounds like? On the
podcast, Dan Savage says even if youre in the happiest marriage, if you just go fuck somebody else once in awhile, it brings a lot of juice to your marriage.
MD: Were getting hand jobs from young filmmakers, and its really working out for us. We give them too.
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