Since those days, everyone from Jeremy Irons to Nicholas Cage has played dual roles on screen, with actors like Eddie Murphy and Peter Sellers virtually making a career of the trick. These eight episodes are less about getting him back to a place where hes not shambling through work presentations and brushing off reminders from Kate, and more about reinforcing the fact that even the most ordinary existences have something to envy about them. I swallowed wrong, and I wasnt even swallowing. With the season tightly written, the challenge then came in filming Rudds dual roles, a task that the team includingJonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who directed all eight episodes first looked to the actor to sort out. Rudd has been a film and TV star in his own right for more than 25 years now, from his earliest appearances in movies like Clueless to his first Netflix series, Living With Yourself, which debuts Oct. 18. Four years ago, Greenberg began writing and eventually turned his questions into a pilot for IFC. It's a little weird and I felt it could of been better but no shows perfect so enjoy. Creator Timothy Greenberg Stars Paul Rudd Aisling Bea Ali Akbar Sepahi See production, box office & company info Watch on Netflix Living with Yourself is an American science fiction comedy-drama streaming television series created by Timothy Greenberg that premiered on October 18, 2019, on Netflix. I thought, my God, what a movie star, just so cool, Rudd said a few weeks ago, still sounding awe-struck. He seems to be successful and Miles 2 seems to be dead. 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. "Whichever character was driving the scene, we would film that one first, and I would act to just where I knew I would bethere was nobody there. Original title: Living with Yourself. After a blow-up at work and a brutal rejection from Miles, she logs on to the online dating site, finds she has matched with the clone and resolutely heads out the door for a face-to-face meeting without telling Miles. The star of Ant-Man and Avengers: Endgame confronts himself, quite literally, playing both an imperfect man and his perfect clone in Living With Yourself.. When a c-oworker tips him off to an experimental therapy treatment, things go disastrously (and comically) wrong. They sleep together, but after a few days, it starts to get awkward and Kate realizes she has made a mistake. The website's critical consensus reads, "Strange, surreal, and surprising, Living With Yourself can't quite sustain its high-concept premise, but it remains engaging thanks to its clever writing and the sheer force of Paul Rudd's dueling performances. Head to Oahu's Mokule'ia Beach, which was used as not only the crash site, but also the location of the survivors' camp in the first season of the mega-popular series. Like too many streaming series, Living With Yourself would probably have worked much better as a feature film. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who helmed every episode, could have molded it into something like their quirky dramedies Little Miss Sunshine or Ruby Sparks.Instead, there are whole episodes that feel entirely extraneous, and the show frequently doubles back on events to . His voice rose to an ironic timbre Leos no slouch either! before it returned to its usual, gentler register as he described how the Brad-gazing experience reminded him that audiences were never going to see him in quite the same way. Now thats doing your business in luxury. 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. Youll never get to see all those Charlie Kaufman TV shows. However, before anyone is able to verify that, the case is shut down due to a lack of funding, down to a lack of prosecutions of clonesturns out they're very hard to spot, as any viewer of Living with Yourself who spent much of the season confused which Miles was which can attest. The eight-episode sci-fi dramedy, created and written by Timothy Greenberg, stars Rudd as Miles, an unsatisfied middle-aged man who finds himself meandering about his marriage, job and life, having seemingly given up on the idea that things could be better. And then theres the closest we ever got to seeing what a TV show made by the guy who wrote Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Anomalisa might look like: How And Why, starring Keener, Michael Cera, and Sally Hawkins in the story of someone who can explain how and why a nuclear reactor works but is clueless about life. FX passed on that one in 2014. The unfortunate irony of this show about copying people is that it itself feels like an inferior knockoff, a genial lark that cant help but fall short of the soul, wit, and creative ingenuity of the thing its unconsciously echoing. Living with Yourself season 1 chronicles the give-and-take between not only Miles and his second self, but also between Miles and his wife, Kate. The amount of hours Paul put into making the show and playing two parts, really long days in the winter in New York, was nuts, even physically as a challenge, Bea said. 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. Here's a complete cast rundown for Living with Yourself season 1. In the finale of the sci-fi dramedy starring Paul Rudd in a dual role, Old Miles has finally realized that he wants to fight to get his life back. Starting with the character who was most driving the scene, Rudd would then act off the recording of his other Miles. Give it a try, you can unsubscribe anytime. 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.) [9] Principal photography for the first season took place on location in New York City in 2018. This movie is based on a biography of the same name written by Jon Krakauer. When will 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season 8 be on Netflix? This isnt a case of Joker battering its audiences over the head with specific Scorsese homages; Living With Yourself lives in the uncanny valley of recommended-if-you-like. [10], On October 18, 2019, Living With Yourself was officially released on Netflix. It was huge.. But thats a lot of window dressing gussying up an over-told tale: A dead-end job, a crumbling marriage, a protagonist learning that he has a pretty good life, all things considered. 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. is, itself, an inferior copy. So I would record both parts then someone off-camera would play my line on an iPad and I'd flip around.". ", Speaking to The Press Association about this, Rudd's co-star in Living with Yourself Aisling Bea said: "He's so transformative doing two characters," she said. 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. As his friends and family bond towards the new George, the original soon begins to realize hes his own worst enemy. Thats particularly true when the one doing the envying is a clone who was grown in a retro-futuristic spa and endowed with his predecessors memories. I didn't wind up doing it the same way Sam did ithe had a stand-in and would flip it around. There's nothing there.. [5] On August 28, 2018, it was announced that Aisling Bea had joined the cast. To become a better person, George undergoes an experimental treatment, only to find that hes been replaced by himself, but by a new and improved version. But when I'd say my line, somebody off-screen would be hitting an iPad cue and I would get it in my ear. 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.. Rudd also serves as an executive producer, alongside Greenberg, Anthony Bregman, Jeff Stern, Tony Hernandez, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, and Jeffrey Blitz. Following an argument, they both decide to go to the Spa to find out what happened. 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. 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.. However, eventually Miles 1 overpowers Miles 2 and tries to smother him with a pillow. The series directing duties have been shared between Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The most random show you will watch this year, but it's not a bad thing, it's quite funny and interesting, it has 8 episodes and there not that long so it's easy to get through them. Flashing back, it turns out Miles 2 had the same plan to win back Kate, but Miles 1 had got there first, leading him to consider suicide after seeing Miles 1 and Kate perform the dance she earlier said to Miles 2 she couldn't remember. With its dry, deadpan tone, Living With Yourself is a show that might not work half as well without Rudds inherent duality. Netflix has made a great effort to improve the number of titles within their 4K library. Feige recalled a trip that he and Rudd took to Hong Kong Disneyland earlier this year to open an attraction based on Ant-Man and the Wasp, during which the actor shared an email he received from his mother. The complete list of the locations with latitude and longitude coordinates are listed below in the table. I think the audience has gotten more sophisticated that theyre willing to tolerate cross-genre things, he says of the draw to shows that are hard to define in the traditional comedy or drama sense. It became a real question for me: Why is it so hard for me to be my better self? Mayors Katherine Ross and Rob McFarland have proclaimed February 24, 2023, Twin Peaks Day. There would occasionally be a moment in the edit room where the other Paul would disappear and youd realize you had forgotten that he was acting to thin air. She was reminding him to appreciate how special it was to be featured in a Disney ride. I just choked on my own spit, he said. Is this a remake of the Michael Keaton comedy "Multiplicity" from the 90's. Clad inconspicuously in a baseball cap, T-shirt and shorts, still sporting his summer vacation beard, he was conscious of his celebrity without indulging in it, as when he spoke credibly about taking the subway like a civilian. I'd hear myself again, and that's how we did it, he concluded. Later he was known as Phoebe's boyfriend Mike from "Friends". I dont know why its a thing now, other then I feel like science-fiction has become much more prevalent in popular culture than it was maybe 20, 30 years ago. After spotting NFL star Tom Brady leaving the company, Miles moves forward with a procedure- only to discover that he's been cloned. Miles is a real drip, and Living With Yourself, to its credit, realizes this. By the time the script made its way to Rudd, the actor had a tightened and complete eight-episode story ready for his review. Realizing, perhaps, that he was on the verge of saying something too straightforwardly sincere, Rudd put a hand to his heart and began to rhapsodize. Synopsis: A man undergoes an experimental treatment to improve his life in this comedy starring Paul Rudd as the man who's beside himself when he's duplicated . Were sharp. Somewhere out in the vast forests of television development, you'll find the corpses of the Charlie Kaufman pilots that never made it to . I dont know what to say about any of this theres nothing really to say about it.. Even if Im acting opposite somebody youre not going to see in the scene, Im still acting opposite somebody while filming it and that will, in essence, change the direction of the scene because Im going to react to whatever somebody opposite me is doing. When Rudd appeared on O'Brien's show to promote "Living with Yourself," the appearance followed the same format: Rudd pretended to have brought a clip from the real show and even described which scene from "Living with Yourself" the clip would be from, but when it rolled it was instead, once again, the same clip from "Mac and Me"--with one difference: at the end, instead of one Mac popping up, the clip had been digitally altered so that two Macs appeared (a nod to "Living with Yourself"'s cloning theme). If Paul Rudd had not been in this one, it probably would not have even made it to Netflix. Production companies involved with the series were scheduled to consist of Likely Story and Jax Media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w54yW2Ur50. The first is believed to be in 1922 film Lady of the Night, which features Norma Shearer playing two dancers. Starring Paul Rudd, Aisling Bea, Desmin Borges, Karen Pittman, Zoe Chao, Zach Cherry, James Seol, Gene Jones, and Rob Yang, the series premiered on Netflix on October 18, 2019, and nominated for a Golden Globe. In the film, Miles Elliott (Paul Rudd) is a man struggling to keep both his career and marriage afloat. And I was like, Who doesnt want to turn on a switch and always be the best version of themselves? But we cant do that. (He added that he and his wife were very happily married and beyond this now.). Were speculating that each episode will be approximately thirty to forty minutes long. Returning to Netflix once again is the immortal Paul Rudd. 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. (Before Cloning), Kate and Miles suffer a miscarriage. Back to the present, they have become cold, depressed and distant. At work, his coworkers notice a positive change in him, resulting in his job proposal being universally accepted. "The thing I've come away with is, there is no one way to do it. It seemed as if, no matter where I was, people had just seen the movie or they were going to it. 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And then there are the other six days of the week.. Deciding to face it, he reveals to his friends and Kate that there are two of him. Flashback to 5 years B.C. With the series starring Paul Rudd, this will be the actors 6th Netflix Original, the first being The Fundamentals of Caring. From left, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow, Leslie Mann and Rudd in the 2006 comedy Knocked Up. Since the 90s, Rudd has often played a kind of handsome and charismatic Everyman. Living With Yourself is an upcoming Netflix Original comedy series created by Timothy Greenberg. February 24th was chosen because it is the . 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.. Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris establish a relatively mundane visual palette, perhaps limited by the requirements of stitching Rudds separate takes together in post-production. Living with Yourself season 1 features a double performance from a seemingly-ageless comedy actor, as well as a collection of other familiar faces. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/arts/television/paul-rudd-living-with-yourself-netflix.html. The Ant-Man star used an unusual acting technique to get the best dual performance he could manage. He finds that the success of the clone's ad campaign hangs on the outcome of a small-town referendum and sneaks into the meeting to gleefully watch it fail. After filming the differing sets of footage were split and spliced together, and all that hard worked paid off when fans finally sit down to watch Living with Yourself, theyll be seeing double like never before. 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