The popularity of the film eventually led to an inevitable franchise with several cinematic sequels, which spanned between 1990 and 2004, with two additional direct-to-video films in 2013 and 2019 . There's a scene where I'm looking at the two of them, and I'd have to make sure it looked like I was looking at two people. Theres a charismatic leading man pulling onscreen double duty (like Adaptation), science-fiction technology hiding behind a nondescript storefront (like Eternal Sunshine), and all the midlife, upper-middle-class-white alienation and ennui you can stomach (like every Kaufman movie.) You dont want to do it just because its part of a larger thing, but there is the added bonus of being part of something that has a real place in culture.. Created by Timothy Greenberg and starring Paul Rudd a dual role, the Netflix comedy series explores a man's existential mid-life crisis. Could he really be flawed himself? Eggs would be fine., (Asked what further plans Marvel had for Rudd and his character, Feige, the Marvel Studios president, said: The chess pieces were arranged very purposefully after Endgame. Those that are off the board are off, and those that are still on, you never know.). We relive the cloning day but from Kate's perspective as she has a pregnancy near-miss and fed up with Miles' listlessness decides to try her hand at online dating. Call it "Two Clones and a Baby.". I think Billy Joel put it best in Keeping the Faith when he said the good old days werent always good, and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems, he said. Published: Friday, 18th October 2019 at 9:19 am, How Paul Rudd filmed his double role in Netflixs Living with Yourself. He then took a couple of supporting roles. Paul Rudd achieved his "Living with Yourself" dual role by having one of his characters' lines fed to him through an earpiece. On a tip from a co-worker, he tries a mysterious spa treatment that he hopes will make him a new and better man and which instead results in the creation of a clone (also played by Rudd) who is seemingly superior to Miles in every way. I dont have much of an interest in being an open book., That doesnt mean Rudd cant appreciate the strange serendipity he has enjoyed in his career, and which has steered him to some indelible cultural moments, whether its the final season of Friends or the highest-grossing superhero movie in history. And while the technical aspect of doubling up Rudd was fairly standard, following in the footsteps of TV shows such as Orphan Black and films like, well, Avengers: Endgame (remember the two Captain Americas), Rudd did bring something of an innovation to the performance side of the drama. This time were getting double the Rudd in potentially his funniest Netflix Original role to date. "I'd change over and remember what I did and look at where I said what, and moved on what word and what lineand then I'd go in, we'd reset the eye-lines, and it would be the same thing in reverse. But also, he has a child, and youd need somebody who could be funny and do action and who you would feel for as the father of this little girl., Rudds comedic chops were also an asset if Marvel ever hoped to fulfill its long-term vision of cramming all its heroes into one film. Because his mother is incredibly attentive and nice and emails her movie-star son these things in the morning.. Theres evident narrative strain to Living With Yourselfs later episodes, but thats never the case when the clone is tapping into some of his darker impulses. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), the husband-and-wife filmmakers who directed all eight episodes of Living With Yourself, said that Rudds input had been welcome and offered in the right spirit. They added that his affability was crucial to helping viewers navigate the opening minutes of Living With Yourself, which focuses on the pitiable, rundown Old Miles. And while the turnaround from the cable channel to the streaming giant was quick, the months between allowed for Greenberg to take advantage of longer episode lengths and add back in some of his bigger-budget ideas. Living with Yourself was shot on location in New York City, New York, USA. No, thats the crazy thing! he said with exaggerated amazement. Paul knew what he did last as the other character, while also trying to memorize what he was doing next. Adds Dayton, When you see his back, 95 percent of the time its Paul from doing both sides [of the shot]. (If I talk to somebody, theyre like, Why are you riding the subway? Because I need to get somewhere!). But the tough, quiet Brad Pitt roles are not coming my way, and Im not fighting for them, Rudd said. Like too many streaming series, Living With Yourself would probably have worked much better as a feature film. The adaptation of a novel about a haunted IKEA-like store. Paul Rudd plays his first dual role on Netflix's 'Living With Yourself,' and the star, along with creator Timothy Greenberg, go inside the making of the sci-fi dramedy in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. His job is not going well, and he and Kate are struggling to conceive. Striking that balance came from our understanding of who each character is, like who New Miles is and what does it mean to have the same memories but not the same physical experiences? And similar the other way round., Which is really not so different from acting with me just regularly in a show that didn't even have clones, Rudd joked. [9] Principal photography for the first season took place on location in New York City in 2018. It was huge.. Here's a guide to the show's cast and characters. The authors of this site also have no affiliation with Netflix. He wanted the protagonists name changed from George to Miles (he felt hed played too many Georges in other movies); he had specific jokes written for his characters; and he even had his own strategy for playing Old Miles and New Miles in scenes where they appeared opposite each other. But will you even remember watching Living With Yourself? And theres that nagging sense that whatever the show tries, somebody else has already done it better. [5][6][7][8], Alongside the announcement of the series move to Netflix, it was confirmed that Paul Rudd had been cast in the dual lead roles. Dual-screen roles are nearly as old as film itself. He returns home and frantically tries to contact the clone after finding out that he hasn't gone to work all week. But when he finds out that wife Kate (Aisling Bea . Because the truth is, I dont quite relate to them in the same way that I relate to a guy who is mildly depressed or put-upon, and trying to fight his way out of this common situation.. For three decades now, the iconic TV series has drawn tourists year-round to Snoqualmie North Bend and the rest of the Snoqualmie Valley, placing many City locations and businesses into popular culture history. In the series, he plays Miles, a dejected brand executive who has lost his passion for his work and his marriage. More so than any genre except for horror, science fiction is defined by its special effects. It read like a great book that I couldnt put down, Rudd, also an exec producer, recalls to THR of accepting his first starring role on TV. We have everything you need to know on Living With Yourself, including the Netflix release date, plot, cast & trailer. The complete list of the locations with latitude and longitude coordinates are listed below in the table. Now thats doing your business in luxury. Rudd with Evangeline Lilly in the Marvel movie Ant-Man and the Wasp, which Rudd helped write. Rudd was excited about the idea of working with Wright, whose action-comedies include Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, and Marvel thought Rudd could perfectly embody both the sweet and the unsavory sides of the title character. is, itself, an inferior copy. Living with Yourself is streaming now on Netflix. But he would not say what it was like to strap on a proton pack for the first time, or if he even wields one in the film. But when I'd say my line, somebody off-screen would be hitting an iPad cue and I would get it in my ear. Hours later, Miles wakes up buried in a forest, digs his way out and tries to return home. After polling around town to see how others have approached a dual TV or film role in the past, the team realized quickly that there was no one way particularly since Living With Yourself requires Old Miles and New Miles to often be in the same frame. It's just like, there's nobody there. I swallowed wrong, and I wasnt even swallowing. For all of his previous Ant-Man experiences, Rudd said he had never felt so acutely under the microscope as when the widely hyped, widely watched Endgame was released in April. Are you looking forward to the release of Living With Yourself? Living With Yourself was created and written by Timothy Greenberg, a former executive producer for The Daily Show. Greenberg, who wrote all of the shows first season, drew his inspirations from various sources, including a persistent childhood nightmare about meeting his exact double, as well as a frequent argument he had with wife, who wondered why he was sometimes very sociable and other times sullen and solitary. ", "Living with Yourself Season 1 Reviews", "Golden Globes Nominations 2020: 'The Irishman' and 'Marriage Story' Propel Netflix", "Critics' Choice Awards: 'The Irishman' Leads With 14 Nominations", "VES Awards Nominations: 'The Lion King', 'Alita: Battle Angel', 'The Mandalorian' & 'GoT' Top List", "Writers Guild Unveils 2020 TV Award Nominees", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Living_with_Yourself&oldid=1141678114. The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Samoas are manufactured by Little Brownie Bakers LLC., according to the GCUSA website. But Living With Yourself also allows Rudd to find the humor and the humanity in the old, original Miles: a man who was already struggling to fulfill his modest ambitions and must now contend with an unwanted doppelgnger, whose very existence creates standards he cant live up to. Zoe Chao as Kaylyn: Miles' co-worker, who develops a crush on other Miles after the cloning. When you see Paul in the first frame, you already know a lot., Faris said that the old Miles character is kind of unleavened, but he helps you get through the first part of this, because you know its Paul you know theres going to be more than just this guy whos down in the dumps.. Comedy Drama Sci-Fi An existential comedy about a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person, only to find that he's been replaced by a new and improved version of himself. We wanted to give Paul the most time prepping and performing in the roles, Faris tells THR. I first saw Paul Rudd from an old 1995 YA film, "Clueless", an adaptation from Jane Austen's famous novel Emma. It was like he had two brains, Faris brags of the shows star. This movie is based on a biography of the same name written by Jon Krakauer. Our Take: What we enjoyed about Living With Yourself, created by Timothy Greenberg ( The Daily Show) is just how simultaneously banal and deeply weird it is. At night, when he goes down to the living room, he bumps into his other self, the original Miles. The clone decides to accept the proposal, but also feels dissatisfied, since the life he wants is the one that the original Miles has. "Living with Yourself" features Paul Rudd acting with himself in a dual role. Keeping track, he admits, was like a jigsaw puzzle and would sometimes require helpful reminders from Greenberg and the script supervisor about what had happened in the prior scene for his characters. Release Date, Cast, Trailer, Plot. The concepts are sound; its the execution thats lacking. "[11] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". When it comes to his work, Rudd said, I dont have any sort of grand statement to make, to anybody. Living With Yourself is streaming now on Netflix. We had to figure that out carefully in the writing and, from pretty early on, we had built a calendar that you could look at and see where all the events happened, just to make sure it all lined up, he says. Your very existence is a crime, hes told early on, an anxious charge suddenly shooting through a show that previously earned a laugh with a cameo by one of the cloning facilitys other clients: uncannily invulnerable New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Similar to other recent existential TV offerings like Amazons Forever, Netflixs Russian Doll and NBCs The Good Place, part of the fun of watching Living With Yourself is going in somewhat blind to the very bingeable and theoretical twists and turns that await as the story unfolds. A lot of the jokes land, and the volume of Paul Rudd charm truly increases with the volume of onscreen Rudd, but its hard to shake the feeling that this is all just Netflix tiding its subscribers over until a genuine Kaufmanhis take on Im Thinking Of Ending Thingsarrives in their feeds. Instead of emerging as a better version of himself from the DNA-enhancing procedure, Miles has mistakenly been cloned. And what would happen was, if there was a stand-in there, then I would naturally start gravitating back towards Paul, whatever character Paul Rudd was being rather than a stand-in. All promotional material including but not limited to trailers, images and videos are all copyright to their respective owners. One might assume that Rudd chose to do Living With Yourself as an attempt to get back to his comic roots, to show that he encompasses more than his internet caricature or to stake his claim in the streaming television gold rush. Its possible that someone might catch a mistake! However, the guilt of what he has done hits Miles 1 and he is able to resuscitate his clone. And while you might expect his co-stars would have preferred to have a stand-in to include in the scenes, Irish actor Aisling Bea (who plays Miles wife Kate in the series) revealed that she actually found it easier with Rudds method. An existential comedy about a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person, only to find that he's been replaced by a new and improved version of himself. Which is fine if I wasnt going to have to go around and do the other side of it, he explains of his approach. [5] On August 28, 2018, it was announced that Aisling Bea had joined the cast. Blitz was also set to serve as a director and the series was slated to premiere in 2018. Living With Yourself. In Living with Yourself, a middle-aged man named Miles Elliot (Rudd) struggles with his place in life and receives special treatment from what appears to be a wellness center, located within a strip mall. See production, box office & company info, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Paul Rudd/Adrienne Warren. Rewind a week and Kate invites the clone to go with her on her business trip into the city. Thats what makes it really hard to play these parts. Production companies involved with the series were scheduled to consist of Likely Story and Jax Media. As Feige put it, One day, this person might need to do a scene with Robert Downey Jr., When Wright left the film over creative differences and Peyton Reed took over as director, Rudd stayed on as an actor and a behind-the-scenes contributor of ideas and dialogue, eventually earning writing credits on Ant-Man and its sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp.. 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