Episode 87 - Jay Duplass

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jay Duplass is a busy guy. Often alongside his younger brother Mark, Jay has left his distinct signature on dozens of projects over the past two decades, proving through his prolific yet singular work that the indie film spirit is still alive and well in America. Whether he’s acting, directing, writing, or producing, Jay is always creating art that’s imbued with a sense of unvarnished honesty. Movie fans since childhood, the Duplass brothers created a handful of short films before breaking onto the festival scene with The Puffy Chair in 2005. Since then, Jay has brought us films like Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home, and the upcoming Outside In, as well the short-lived HBO series Togetherness. This week, he and Sam cover everything from how it felt to love movies pre-internet to the myths surrounding the Duplass brothers, as well as the spontaneity necessary for good filmmaking, and of course, the particular strangeness of being known to the public. http://talkeasypod.com/

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	But then I have like young filmmakers who come to me and they're like why are you beating yourself up so much like you figure this out you know what you're doing and I'm like because the beating the
0:24.6	self up is how you get the good stuff it's like getting into beginners of mind it's like
0:30.1	reinventing scared that it's not going to work, taking chances enough to where it could fall apart on you so that you're like on the edge of like what is important to you in this moment and everything that you feel in like you know
0:47.1	it's like priming yourself to be like emotionally available
0:51.5	intellectually available imminently in touch with this moment in society, you know, all that
0:57.4	shit.
0:58.4	That was J. Diploss.
1:03.0	I'm San Francisco so and this is Talk Easy.
1:06.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone.
1:27.0	Jay Deplace is a filmmaker, a producer, a writer, an actor, an activist, a man who, in many ways, jump-started
1:38.9	Kickstarter and the people on it. He's done a whole bunch of different things for different people at different times
1:46.4	and I imagine everyone's entry into J-plus is a little bit different.
1:59.6	It would be incredibly boring if I went down a long, long list of everything he's either produced, directed, written, or acted in. But you know the main ones. He's in transparent. He co-created the show
2:06.0	Togetherness. He's been alongside his brother Mark Duplas on all of their films from
2:11.6	the puffy chair to Jeff who lives at home. The point is, the guy has done
2:17.7	a lot of things. And one of the things he doesn't like doing in the circus of Hollywood is doing interviews.
2:27.0	You know, we've had a whole bunch of people who have come on the show and told us off the top that interviews are not something they're
2:36.7	particularly good at or they don't feel comfortable doing.
2:40.3	And I have to say when someone says that in the beginning of an hour conversation, and we address it and we understand the room that we're in and the thing we're about to embark on.
2:52.0	The conversations go pretty damn. and the thing we're about to embark on.
2:52.8	The conversations go pretty damn well.
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