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‘The Curse’s Nathan Fielder On Infusing Reality Into The Satirical Show-Within-A-Show — Contenders TV
The Curse star, co-creator and director Nathan Fielder talks about efforts to infuse reality in the satirical dark comedy series at Deadline's Contenders TV.
As the star, co-creator, executive producer, writer and director of Showtime’s dark comedy series The Curse, Nathan Fielder admitted he and his collaborator Benny Safdie were committed to infusing the show’s satirical take on an unscripted HGTV home-flipping series with as much a sense of reality – or faux reality – as possible that he didn’t realize some of the crew were left wondering how much of the show they were working itself on was actually real. During Deadline’s Contenders TV panel Sunday, Fielder learned from production designer Katie Byron that she and many of the crew had begun to suspect that the rug was going to be pulled out from under them at any moment. “And so we were sort of conscious, too, that we as filmmakers are coming into this community and, even though it’s temporary, constructing these mirrored homes in the neighborhood, and so we wanted that to be a part of the show when you’re watching it, to be thinking about the level of realism and incorporating real people.”
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