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. I came to terms pretty early on, he said, that I was not going to be the guy up there that people would watch, going, Yes! Its guy in a rut winds up with exact genetic duplicate premise raises interesting questions about work, romantic relationships, and gratitude. [12], Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 06:53, Best Actor Television Series Musical or Comedy, Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode, "Paul Rudd Goes to War with Paul Rudd in the Trailer for Netflix's 'Living with Yourself', "IFC Orders 'Living With Yourself,' Scripted Comedy Series From 'Daily Show' Veteran", "IFC Orders Comedy 'Living With Yourself' From 'Daily Show' Scribe", "Paul Rudd To Topline Netflix Comedy Series 'Living With Yourself' From Timothy Greenberg", "Paul Rudd to Star in Netflix Series 'Living With Yourself', "Paul Rudd to Topline Netflix Comedy Series 'Living With Yourself', "A double dose of Paul Rudd! The series about a sad sack named Miles Elliot (Rudd), who undergoes a mysterious spa treatment and comes out the other side with a superior version of himself (Rudd) has brought the A-list. But that one really feels like a comedy. At night, when he goes down to the living room, he bumps into his other self, the original Miles. 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. Freed from the breast-pumping room (though not before sampling some breast milk and trying a pump on himself out of boredom), Miles 1 heads home to apologise to Kate. Now thats doing your business in luxury. If Paul Rudd had not been in this one, it probably would not have even made it to Netflix. Living with Yourself, the new Netflix series, is built on the premise that the only thing better than one Paul Rudd is two Paul Rudds, with the Clueless actor appearing in a dual role as Miles and his clone. I dont want people to know that much about me, really. 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. It was huge.. We wanted to give Paul the most time prepping and performing in the roles, Faris tells THR. Id change over [into the other Miles], and remember what I did, and look at where I said what, and moved on what word and what line and then I'd go in, we'd reset the eye-lines, and it would be the same thing in reverse. With the series starring Paul Rudd, this will be the actors 6th Netflix Original, the first being The Fundamentals of Caring. He wants to feel that he is good at what he does and is expressing himself through it, but he also wants to hold on to a sense of commonality and privacy that he sometimes feels is slipping away. He's also the founding editor at Vague Visages, and has contributed to RogerEbert.com and Fandor. 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. Four years ago, Greenberg began writing and eventually turned his questions into a pilot for IFC. 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. Living with Yourself follows the story of a man who, after undergoing a mysterious treatment that promises him the allure of a better life, discovers that he has been replaced by a cloned version of himself. The series was set to be written by Greenberg, who was also expected to executive produce alongside Blitz, Bregman, Stern, Tony Hernandez, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, and Paul Rudd. The next day, the clone buys an abduction kit and just as he heads towards the house a van drives up and two men jump out and abduct Miles. 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. "As you may have heard from stateside councils and volunteers, Little Brownie Bakers (LBB) is experiencing national supply chain disruptions," the . Join our email list to get the latest blog posts straight to your inbox, Titles Leaving Netflix Canada in September 2019, New Releases on Netflix: August 27th, 2019. I thought, my God, what a movie star, just so cool, Rudd said a few weeks ago, still sounding awe-struck. Each actor and director has found their own way to do a dual role, with some preferring to work with stand-ins, while others (like Ang Lee in the recent film Gemini Man) preferred to just create a second CG version of the actor so as to avoid getting bogged down in camera trickery. The episode ends with them in a three-way hug. Here's our guide to who's in the cast ofLiving with Yourself, and where you might have seen them before. Living with Yourself was filmed in 20 Legendary Cir (Miles House), 900 King St (Miles Work), New York City, The Beekman, a Thompson Hotel and Top Happy Spa. Theres no confirmation as of yet but we fully expect Living With Yourself to be available to stream in 4K. Is this a remake of the Michael Keaton comedy "Multiplicity" from the 90's. Enjoy this party classic with an updated RT twist - fun for all the family! The post-Synecdoche, New York team-up with Catherine Keener that was set up during a fruitful time of development at HBO, but never came to be. There were some things that didnt work out exactly right that we had to adjust. "Living with Yourself" features Paul Rudd acting with himself in a dual role. Jacob covers all things Netflix movies and TV shows but specializes in covering anime and K-dramas. Its possible that someone might catch a mistake! 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. Production companies involved with the series were scheduled to consist of Likely Story and Jax Media. There's nothing there.. "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. Starring: Paul Rudd,Aisling Bea,Desmin Borges Creators: Timothy Greenberg Watch all you want. Rudd recently revealed in a number of interviews how the crew show found a unique solution to the problem of shooting scenes where he had to appear twice. Following this, the two Miles confront each other and fight, making more of a mess of the room than they do of each other (among the furniture casualties is the credenza that has felt almost like a supporting character in the show so far). Rudd would record the voices of both characters and, using an earwig, flip back and forth to do the scene from both perspectives. And it was actually very easy to do. Created and written by Timothy Greenberg ( The Daily Show With Jon Stewart ), the show features plenty of funny and clever material, including the notion that a move to the suburbs has coincided. In his most successful performances, he is besieged by quotidian problems; he is blessed with impeccable comic timing but at his funniest when hes flailing and frustrated. Who wrote the incidental music in episode 1? "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. After waking up in the Spa, New Miles, not knowing he is a clone, feels strange but happy. Miles Elliot is a copywriter at Pool Branding who lives an ordinary and routine life with his wife, Kate. 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. Here's a complete cast rundown for Living with Yourself season 1. 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. But the point of a show like Living With Yourself is that we all have these imperfections even those of us who outwardly appear perfect and there is comfort in this universal truth. The filmmaker Jonas Mekas in Ins Toharia's . I first saw Paul Rudd from an old 1995 YA film, "Clueless", an adaptation from Jane Austen's famous novel Emma. A co-worker, Dan, tells Miles he can improve his life by going to a spa called Top Happy Spa. Living with Yourself streams on Netflix from Friday 18th October, Try 12 issues for 1 today - never miss an issue. 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? 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. 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. We kind of figured out the best way to make this work for us and for me to do the scenes was to not do the scenes with another actor, as a stand-in, but instead just record the scenes as both characters, and listen into an earpiece, Rudd told RadioTimes.com. Still, this technique didnt make things any easier for Rudd, whose casting as two lead characters in a TV series meant he spent double the amount of time on set changing back and forth between the two characters. And I would act to just where I knew I would be there was nobody there. by With the series starring Paul Rudd, this will be the actor's 6th Netflix Original, the first being The Fundamentals of Caring. More so than any genre except for horror, science fiction is defined by its special effects. 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. 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. Resides in the United Kingdom. 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. Netflix has made a great effort to improve the number of titles within their 4K library. 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. No sooner had he finished saying this than a server came to our table and offered us a complimentary plate of breakfast pastries. Please use Latlong.net at your own risk. If Netflix does give the show a second season (and they have not done so yet), then this seems to set up a plot that will see Kate and the two Miles trying to navigate life as an unconventional throuple, as they try and raise the child while dealing with all the emotions left unresolved in the first series of Living with Yourself. [1] The series stars Paul Rudd and Aisling Bea. [10], On October 18, 2019, Living With Yourself was officially released 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. I'd hear myself again, and that's how we did it, he concluded. But this was very confusing!, Even Greenberg himself had his own trick for keeping track of the narratives. We feel good about how we look, or we feel comfortable about the day. Today, we have Living With Yourself, the new Netflix cloning comedy that throws the high concepts, themes, and novelty of the Kaufman filmography into a salad spinner to produce a weekend binge with the shelf-life of a potluck caprese. Running time: 127 MIN. The fight scenes are so fake as to be unbelievable. The story is one dimensional with added scenes that have no real value to the goal. Jacob joined What's on Netflix in 2018 and serves as one of the lead writers here on What's on Netflix. When a c-oworker tips him off to an experimental therapy treatment, things go disastrously (and comically) wrong. 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. I filmed my show [This Way Up] straightaway after our show, and I'd never been a lead in anything before. 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. 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. The finale begins with one of the Miles being dragged out of a van and into the breast-pumping room of a police station, where he is questioned about being a clone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w54yW2Ur50. Published on August 27th, 2019, 5:00 pm EST, Living With Yourself Copyright. Now his film work also requires a level of secrecy that he is unaccustomed to, and he worried that even my describing the contents of his breakfast would give away whether he was or was not in training for another Ant-Man movie. 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 . 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. The ending of "Living with Yourself" sees Kate announce to Miles and his clone that she is pregnant. New Miles, who still feels married to Kate, struggles to adjust to single life and takes a sample of her hair to have a clone of her created at the spa, only for the spa employees to reject his offer, fearing what will happen if their corporate headquarters finds out. Instead of emerging as a better version of himself from the DNA-enhancing procedure, Miles has mistakenly been cloned. Jacob Robinson There, Miles discovers that he has been cloned. Rudd added many of his own ideas to the series. Instead, he pre-recorded one version of Miles first, and acted opposite himself or at least the audio of himself. Rudd told Cosmopolitan: "I thought he did such a great job, so I asked him how he did it. 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. Dance With the Weeknd In a new film the pop star co-wrote with director Trey Edward Shults. I have hours of tapes, filled up notebooks.. To not have actually lived through the pain but to remember it how does that leave you? But first, a recap of what led to that final scene: Note: For sake of clarity, we will refer to the original Miles as "Miles 1" and his clone as "Miles 2.". I dont know what to say about any of this theres nothing really to say about it.. 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. Whats on Netflix is not endorsed, moderated, owned by or affiliated with Netflix or any of its partners in any capacity. [3][4], On August 10, 2018, it was announced that the project had moved to Netflix, which had given the production a series order for a first season consisting of eight episodes. The following cast members have been confirmed for Living With Yourself: Production took place at the latter end of 2018 with filming taking place from October 17th and concluding in February of 2019. Fearing his career and relationship are both going down the tubes, Miles heeds the advice of a newly successful co-worker and visits a mysterious spa. They sleep together, but after a few days, it starts to get awkward and Kate realizes she has made a mistake. 9. Rudd had to be cautious, too, when talking about his Ghostbusters movie, which is directed by Jason Reitman and will reportedly feature appearances from founding Ghostbusters cast members like Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. After a small scuffle, the two confused Miles decide to return to the spa, which was the site of his last memory before the grave. But hey: There are multiple chances for Rudd to remind you what a funny dancer he is. 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. Living with Yourself season 1 features a double performance from a seemingly-ageless comedy actor, as well as a collection of other familiar faces. Hough is a senior writer at Screen Rant. 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