Name: Directing The Eyes of Tammy Faye w/ Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Directing The Eyes of Tammy Faye w/ Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Directing The Eyes of Tammy Faye w/ Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-28. Transcript available.

i don't feel like an actor i don't feel what i think an actor should feel like
which is in control
and and and happy you know doing it yeah is that what you saw your leads in tammy
faye doing it
breathing yeah it's living yeah when when you're at that level when you're a
great actor and it
doesn't you don't have to be that kind of actor you could be a comic actor you
can there's there's
any you could be a soap opera actor it doesn't matter yeah but it's that
feeling that like i'm
i'm me right now and when i'm directing and this feels sort of like goofy to
even say but i feel
that way i feel like completely in my own skin i feel very confident in i don't
feel the need to
pose or posture or anything i am more than happy to say if i don't know uh what
something is could you
you know the ad or someone will say like oh we need a something or other thing
and i'm like what's
that what are you talking about yeah i don't need to know it all i don't need i
just but i do feel like
there's something that i have to offer and it's unique and um i never really
felt that way as an
actor yeah i love that i love i'm just happy for you just as a human person
because
finding those spots where you're fully yourself relationships where you're full
yourself jobs
where you're full everything it's it's literally everything authenticity yes
authenticity and is
that what andrew and jessica you saw them i have to imagine so they just um
they're different they
have both of them have a different process they're both very very well
researched so they both do an
incredible amount of reading and research and and they think a lot about their
characters and they talk
to people that knew i mean they all that stuff i mean they treat it you know
they have they they take it
they they approach it with such such professionalism and um hard work um so i
sort of see it as it
as they're they're creating something they're creating they're putting a
character together piece by
piece the way a bird would build a nest or something like that and i'm there to
kind of help them in
whatever way i can but also to like get to kind of figure them out get on their
page that's a lot of
of with me what what if i have a directing style or or or process it's like to
try to get on the
actor's page and every actor is different so i may meet them where they are
yeah but so it will be
like i'm doing one thing with jessica i'm doing different thing with andrew and
what was that a
different thing with vincent d'onofrio i don't don't mention just the leads
that's fun
working with working with an actor you know like oh who you working oh vincent
d'onofrio okay sure
no big deal um they're all different they all have different and you're trying
to get get on
their page yeah and figure out what what what that what that's going to be and
then um can you
remember the difference if andrew is struggling andrew andrew is very i don't
want to say this and
be wrong but he's somewhat of a method actor so he's kind of in character even
when he's not on
camera that must have been or he's sort of has his character with him in a way
so it's not like
you know i used to think method actor you hear that they're always in character
that literally
like if you go up to them and ask them a question they'll use the voice of the
character they'll be
like what what do you mean yeah yeah i don't understand yeah yeah no for the
next shot shot
is this the hallelujah show no we're shooting a movie a documentary yeah okay
we can't do this every
time um it's not that it's more that they don't drop the character's feelings
when they're not
shooting so if the character is angry and you if the character is angry or hurt
in some way or happy even
the actor i my my sense of it is and i didn't talk to him about this a lot but
my sense of it is he
holds on to that your spidey sense my spidey sense of it because i didn't want
to be like what are you
doing right now you know like what are you doing right now what are you
thinking it was more just my
vibe checking it out is he'll keep he'll keep the feeling very alive keep that
fire burning yeah yeah um
whereas jessica is more turning it on and off i see which is what i certainly
do yes and so before
i do a scene i often my co-stars on the thing i just did would laugh at me they'd
be like all right
we're ready to go and i would just say out loud i'm angry and then i know it's
stupid yeah but i even
think robert de niro well that's more of a method guy i guess but like a lot of
actors even if they're
not saying i'm angry they are going like remember you're you're in a fight you
just left that fight
sure or you're disappointed i mean sometimes in your script a lot of actors
they just keep a note
keep notes that say like this is what my character is thinking in this scene
well i wish i had done
that because i was watching what we shot and i i noticed i was like oh i should
have been keeping
like uh like you're more mad than you were in the last because you're shooting
out of order and stuff
it's like this should be your six like you're really pissed yes but it was the
first thing we shot
so i can tell i'm just kind of like happy to be on set yeah you know like that's
what um sally field
did i did a movie with me with sally field and she we shot it out of order and
it's called hello my
name is doris i hope everyone goes and checks it out it's on netflix right now
um she made it i said
edit that out i just want you to be in on the joke yeah i didn't want you to
think i was being a dick if
you watch this later i always do edit that out edit that out edit that out no
uh yeah it's a wonderful
film i i didn't know it was on netflix it's on netflix that's great it just
came on netflix great
yeah it just came on it great um and uh she would do it did you say netflix.com
yeah yeah yeah um she
would do yeah she sort of made a chart so she could look at her script at any
moment and her chart could
kind of tell her where her character needed to be i love that so that she could
almost just like
yeah like reference a piece of paper that could tell her where she needed to
get to because so
she had the whole performance kind of charted out on paper so that she could
just reference
the level and are you doing because i've had directors that do that and don't
do that some
no my favorite directors really no it's really helpful no you do whatever you
do but like the
ones that make it really easy let's say go like hey don't forget the scene
before this oh yeah i do
that okay i do that but i don't have it okay i don't i do that but i do that in
the moment so it's
like i'll turn to oh i i absolutely do that but i don't have it all written
down yeah that's all i meant
okay yeah i just don't have it all written down well i absolutely do that that
it was super helpful
don't edit that out i do that i do that i swear to god i do i believe of course
but well but i'm
in awe of a i'm i'm in awe of directors like wes anderson or the guy that did
um bong bong ho i
think his name is who did but who did um parasite i'm in awe of directors who
it appears to me are
you could if the camera was on me you'd see my face i was smiling and it
started to fade realizing
i had made fun of a name i thought you were trying to think of the name of a
movie no and then i was
like oh no you can edit that out you have you maybe you do want to edit that
out well i think it was
because it was earnest i didn't know his name so you just had like a real
moment of me like but
if you go to the me on the my shot you just heard you could see me go you just
heard i heard bong and
all you heard is bong and then when you went bong ho the academy award-winning
director and i was like
like yeah i couldn't do it in a million years let me it was like this mike it
was like there was like
bong hits and you went bong honer like that that was too much it was so subtle
your vertebrae started
started like getting fusing together and i i felt my eye move so subtle like
that little flutter it
was a flutter flutter in the corner of the eye it was like if we could have
done an extreme close-up
if we could have gotten an extreme close-up we'd have seen a little twitch
happening you would have
been in video village going like god damn it yeah that's beautiful we got it
that's beautiful because
what i felt this is that we got that right we were recording right please tell
me we were recording
that's the sort of stuff and i say circle that circle that circle that circle
that take yeah and
those are the types of things that i can't yet will i can't will something so
small well or or just be so
or just be so like in it that it comes out that you're not even thinking you
trust you you trust
that whatever comes out of you is going to be that good yeah yeah yeah so bong
ho bong ho
and wes anderson and many others yeah who you know who i get the feeling that
they plan their
movies within an inch of their lives yeah their movies are like blueprinted yes
so to the to the to
the letter with with music and the shot and how that's all going to cut
together it i'm in awe of
that because to me what i doing you know doing even the the stuff i've done it
feels like
just making anything is like so miraculous forget making it perfectly or
precisely to make them to
make a movie like eyes of tammy fay and the amount of of like pieces that need
to come together and the
amount of like x factors that go into it to say nothing of just like anything
like the script and
the actors and the production and you're trying to make your day and the budget
and there's so many
different important people that who are doing their jobs the best they can and
then to think like
to be one guy getting 200 people to do it exactly the way you want it and to
even have a vision of
exactly the way you want it because that's the other part it's like i'm
shooting and i'm like i don't
know i'm not really sure how this is gonna go you know like i'm just in whole
foods getting attractive
looking ingredients and then i'm and then we're gonna go and we're gonna go
cook it but we don't
know exactly how we're going to cook it