ANDY SAMBERG HOUSE MOVIE
ANDY SAMBERG HOUSE SERIES

That was a jumping-off point.įrom that point on, there were a couple of Gram Parsons songs that were written into the script.

ANDY SAMBERG HOUSE MOVIE

For some reason, when I heard that song, and I was thinking about the movie - everything started clicking into place. Like “Spinning Away”, the John Cale/Brian Eno song. There are a lot of songs that didn’t end up making it in, but they ended up creating this sound of the movie that still ended up translating to the page.

SIARA: I made a playlist back when I was writing it the first time, and Max and I were just adding to it. It was like climbing up that proverbial crazy mountain to get what we needed every day - and we got it. But we got everything we needed and everybody really dug in. It was really a matter of doing less takes for a lot of things. We would always remind each other of where we were, but everybody was so on top of it emotionally that it was more about making our days because we have so much ambitious, fun, amazing stuff to fit in. And we’ve gotten questions like, “Was it hard to keep track of your spot in the movie? Was continuity hard?” And I was just thinking about how everybody really took ownership over this fun idea, over this puzzle that we were trying to figure out.

ANDY SAMBERG HOUSE SERIES

Doing a lot of series and jumping in and out and just knocking a lot of stuff out. The block shooting, honestly, I thought was one of the more fun parts, especially how I think Andy you like to work, too. Hope this music we put under it makes it good.”īARBAKOW: Yeah, we always had the soundtrack to fall back on, so that we could just mute everything that we actually got and it could just play as an extended music doc. It’s also like, “Alright, let’s just check this list off. So, there’s a soupiness to it that, outside of wanting to make sure that you’re hitting the right emotions as a performer and tonally from the point of view from the director, you’re getting what you need from that moment story structure wise. But, at the same time, time in the movie is kind of relative anyway.

That could’ve been over the course of multiple days, and Max could tell you a little more about how we strategized that. SAMBERG: There was a lot of block shooting, which is to say that anything in the same location we shot it all at once. But it was always, from the beginning, me and Max as kind of acting as each other’s therapists and entertaining each other and trying to make each other laugh. I got married, fell in love, and started a family, and a lot of it is kind of about that. And then it just evolved over the years for a variety of reasons. Honestly, the first version of this movie was more of like Leaving Last Vegas, where this guy goes out to Palm Springs to essentially kill himself. SIARA: Max and I did a couple of shorts together at AFI, and then when we finished up at AFI, and we were like, “Let’s do our first movie together.” So he and I went out to Palm Springs, had a little bit of our own lost weekend, and out of that we were like, “Alright, what’s a small movie we can do? We don’t really know what it’s about, but let’s set it in Palm Springs, maybe around one location.” Then we had the idea of this character Niles - that’s what we left the weekend with - and that was five years ago. What if you could live without the fear of consequences? What if we could just be in The Moment? And what if chaos afforded us such an opportunity?Ĭonsequence of Sound recently spoke to Samberg, Barbakow, and Siara about these concepts, the perceived challenges of making a first film, finding the right soundtrack for the film, how Joanna Newsom is responsible for the final song, and how they felt after the record-breaking Sundance purchase. But, what if we didn’t want to leave? That’s essentially the conceit of Hulu’s hilarious new comedy Palm Springs starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.ĭirected by Max Barbakow and written by screenwriter Andy Siara (formerly of The Henry Clay People), Palm Springs reminds us that, now more than ever, we need to focus on what makes us happy. You wake up to the same routine, the same activities, and the same limitations - all with no end in sight. The Groundhog Day Effect is certainly a hell we can all relate to amidst this pandemic.

Andy samberg house