Name: The Director's of "Talk to Me" Discuss How it Was Made
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Director's of "Talk to Me" Discuss How it Was Made' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-27. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience where were we we were talking about talk to me we're
talking about how the process from going from um okay how to get the script
picked up to actually shooting so we got we got yeah we got a blackout in the
studio so we got to the script gets approval you yeah managed to dodge all
the obvious tropes yeah but I remember one of the studios the people that
financed it were still iffy and us directing they said to Sam our producer
they're like can you what have they done exactly can you send some stuff but
they
were still a little bit unsure because it's a big gamble it's so much money so
he sent him the car hit video yeah well we just sent them some examples of a
more
narrative driven video which our YouTube videos never really were so it was it
was
hard I remember we did a short film called deluge before we started the
YouTube channel so was there talk of someone else taking it over that's what
they didn't say that specifically the thing is like and one of the reasons we
didn't go with the Hollywood studios because they would have final cut and be
able to make changes and stuff and like yeah every single like shot and like
sound
effect and everything was so like I guess have like a strong sense of how we
want
it I couldn't imagine having that control taken away from us right so doing it
so we
went the independent route lost half the budget and then it was supposed to be
an
eight-week shoot we ended up it dropped to a seven then a six and a five so we
had five
weeks we lost an extra million dollars out of the budget because we cast Sophie
Wilde because she wasn't a name yet like as a lead so they took a million
dollars worth
yeah yeah but she was great she was incredible she is the best and now she's
doing like
she's got a lot like a lot of stuff coming up which is amazing like it was
worth it to
us because she was the best like performer and like I've never man it's such an
amazing
experience having someone that's like so good at their craft and like elevate
it to a point
higher than you could imagine in your mind like we have a strong thing of like
how we want it to
be you get amazing artists like that and they just fucking elevate it she she
was so committed
there were days when we asked her not to sleep and come to set not having slept
because her
character's losing her mind or she's meant to have been up on that so she would
do that there
was a scene where she starts like hitting herself and she was so committed she
started beating the
crap out of herself for real she was just so caught up into the character in
the moment yeah yeah yeah
she was like uh yeah and because it was such a short shoot like uh we had to
really and it was it was
during covert was got like down but coming back up so if you get if you get
covert then you know you
can't come to set for a week or so it was like survivor on set like people
there was one week we lost
seven people or and that was on friday i'm like come monday there's gonna be no
one left like uh
uh yeah we're just like losing so many people everyone was constantly getting
tested i mean if the
production shut down we yeah we weren't gonna finish it we're gonna make it on
budget there was like
budget set aside for certain emergency situations but it was like really really
tight so we had to
reinvest all of our fees back into the film our producer reinvested all of our
fees back into the film to
make sure that we could get sophie and it was just a race for the finish line
it was so there was days
that we had to shoot eight minutes of the film in one day usually on a film it's
supposed to be like
on average what 90 seconds something like that per day of filming so how did
the film get so popular
well so we had a was just word of mouth it well we got picked up from so we got
into sundance film
festival which is like a really like prestigious film festival one of the
biggest in the world sundance
and we got into that somehow and then uh there was i think like word started
spreading there so we
were getting contacted by like all the agencies like all these big you know
talent agencies and we're
getting like and they were getting people to like reach out to us so we're
getting like two three
hundred emails a day of like people like oh sign with us like this thing so the
word was spreading
before the movie even no one even saw the movie i think they spoke to the
people at sundance like
what's like a buzz title or something and that came up so when we got there we
it was like this chaotic
like yeah like a strange everything we're trying to get achieve in our life
like being in film was like
and like it was scratching the door forever it just like blew open and then
everything was like it's
like the most it was overwhelming we spent all of sundance because we had the
crew there in the
car so everyone was just crying the entire time it was so overwhelming and even
all those emails all
these people reaching out all these heroes of ours or all these companies that
you've seen so many
products from saying oh do you want to look at this script driver look at this
it was the first time i
got so overwhelmed i couldn't even open emails i couldn't look or i was so did
you just feel surreal
everything like yeah jordan peele sent a message like randomly and then uh ari
aster who did hereditary
he came to the premiere and like man it was there was all this hype around the
movie before anyone saw
i was like man i would have rather it be like you no one knows like you just go
in not knowing expecting
anything but there was this really high expectation going into it we were
sitting at the back of the
theater just cringing man like oh like it was the most painful experience
because it was it was the
first time we were going to be exposed to critics and like harsh critics you
know sundance and and
things like that and uh we wanted audience members just in the in the theater
but i think it was all
just like industry professionals so it was like it was terrifying it was it was
i was truffing so bad
throughout the screening thinking it was playing like yeah people would get up
to go to the toilet and they
opened this the back door and then light would go over the crowd like oh yeah
it's just constantly
people are moving around i'm like why is the movie boring why is people yeah
yeah and it was like a
midnight screening as well like they play it at midnight in egyptian theater it
was like a big
famous theater and like it was midnight so it was late people like a little bit
maybe drunk or yeah
it was like a weird yeah that whole night i just remember being really
emotional and troughing
a lot and and cringing and dropping uh in film like this is a central peaks and
troughs peaks and valleys
yeah it was like truffing and feeling really down we went up to arias to
apologize to him after the
movie i literally got up to say i'm so sorry you got dragged here because of
all this hype for no
reason i went to apologize to him so i walked up to him i'm like bro i'm so
sorry that and he's like
that was amazing and i was like well what the and then he's so you thought it
wasn't being received
well just because people were distracted and moving around or just you guys
were hypersensitive
hypersensitive and focusing on small things yeah anything that was like you
know like a crackle in
the speaker or someone going to the toilet was like you're overthinking it was
such a very heightened
emotional moment that every small thing i was like this is playing like so when
did you realize that
it wasn't when did you realize that this is a hit when at that night our
producer said a24 want to
make an offer on the film i was like what the a24 which is we would joke about
it on set oh this is
very a24 this film this is a very a24 shot you know with a24 no what's that so
they're a distribute
uh distribution company oh no they're also like like a production company
production company they're
like the most prestigious like like kind of indie studio thing like okay so
like it's all like they're
really selective with their talent and it's kind of like art films like can you
give me an example of
a film movie oh yeah one of my all-time favorites that was yeah i've watched
that movie like 10 times
it's incredible god i love that movie which that's another great movie yeah
they've got all good stuff
uh uncut gems oh i love that movie yeah we love all these films as well so oh
so they make dope movies
yeah they make amazing movies oh everything everywhere all at once too oh yeah
the daniels
so that's the thing we had we were at a party once with all those directors and
actors and stuff and
it was like we never felt more out of place because they're like you know i
know we're stupid
duh than proper film directors we feel so uh unsophisticated or or on a that's
good yeah yeah
yeah that's just authentic oh yeah but yeah stereotypical movie making human
being to make a great movie
obviously yeah thank you thank you yeah yeah it's like a thing like i remember
adam sandler walked
in the room and i was like damn adam sandler i'm like i want to say something
to him i was like i was
like so like uh it was like meeting you and i was like he came up and i was
like hey bro big fan yeah
it's like we're having fun even walk past yeah it was exactly that michael just
starts being a fanboy
fanboy fanboy like oh i can't believe i'm here like michael be professional
what are you doing yeah
like look we have to like wear a suit and like sip martinis or something i don't
know no just be
yourself be yourself be yourself be annoying you know yeah just be yourself
yeah well i do have a
nightmare of being ourselves i have a nightmare of like you like chewing me out
on something and then
you know it's like then i'll be your comments on youtube like hey look at this
guy yeah yeah like
like yeah yeah he showed you i don't know being here as well yeah you guys have
a nightmare of being
here yeah so whatever you say like i agree with man yeah please don't worry it's
working great no need
for nightmares this is fun