Jay Duplass: Breaking Into ‘Industry’

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jay Duplass never wanted to be an actor. For years, he remained entirely behind the scenes of the intimate indie films he wrote and directed with younger brother Mark Duplass. Then, he was handed the role of Josh Pfefferman in ‘Transparent,’ which transformed his life and career more than he ever could have imagined when he still thought it was a little “web show” for Amazon. In this episode, Duplass reveals how his latest acting gig as “Mr. COVID” Jesse Bloom on HBO’s ‘Industry’ was inspired by Jeff Bezos, opens up about the difficult decision to separate from his brother professionally, explains why it would be “unthinkable” for a cis actor to play Jeffrey Tambor’s role on ‘Transparent’ today—even if that’s what viewers “needed” at the time—and a lot more.

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0:00.0	My guest this week never wanted to be an actor.
0:03.5	Then he was cast in the part that changed his career.
0:06.6	You have a cabinet of Pfefferman family's secrets.
0:09.8	Yeah.
0:10.2	Let's hear it.
0:10.9	What you got?
0:12.7	There was the whole defense.
0:14.6	We both know how that got there.
0:16.6	Yeah, I know that one.
0:18.0	Anything I don't know?
0:19.3	Okay.
0:23.6	Allie used to sell your mom's volume in high school. Really?
0:24.6	Yeah. How do you think we always had money to do stuff?
0:26.6	That's fucking awesome.
0:28.6	And there's the woman that babysat you,
0:32.6	that drove you around and took advantage of your sweet little teenage bod.
0:36.6	And it was super lecherous.
0:40.3	Um, if by lettuous, you mean rad?
0:43.3	That's really gross.
0:45.3	You mean, um, every 15-year-old boy's wet dream?
0:50.3	Yeah, Josh, who's wet dream?
0:53.3	Mine.
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