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Jay and Mark Duplass on Competing at Emmys and Playing Against Their Good Guy Personas in ‘Dying for Sex’ and ‘Good American Family’
Jay Duplass stars in "Dying for Sex" while Mark Duplass appears in "Good American Family" and hte filmmaking brothers are competing at Emmys.
The brothers made their name as a DIY filmmaking team with their initial feature, 2005’s “The Puffy Chair,” but the duo hasn’t directed together since the 2011 comedy “Jeff Who Lives at Home.” (“The Do-Deca-Pentathlon” was released in 2012 but actually shot prior.) It’s very clear that he loves her and I think it’s romantic that she says, “I’m going to divorce you and have sex with as many people as I can and also I still need your credit card” and he was like, “You got it.” I was honestly honored that they thought of me as a person that could be a villain, but play it in an understandable way so we knew that ultimately, he was a good guy. It was also a big swing; I wasn’t sure they would be able to pull off the tonal tightrope of full-blown drama and hard comedy at the same time; putting Michelle Williams, one of our greatest living dramatic actors in the same show as someone like Rob Delaney, who is one of the funniest humans alive.
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