Marc Maron Breaks Down Scenes From 'Almost Famous', 'Joker', 'Stick' & More | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Marc Maron sat down with The Hollywood Reporter for "Scene Stealers" to break down moments from his popular TV shows and films like 'Almost Famous,' 'Joker,' 'Maron,' 'Glow' and more. He recalls the moments he improvised in 'Almost Famous' and working with Robert De Niro and Joaquin Phoenix in 'Joker,' as well as what it was like starring in his own series, 'Maron.' Plus, he dishes on working on the Apple TV+ show 'Stick' with Owen Wilson and working with the showrunner to play an "honest" character.

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00:00Joaquin was interesting because he wouldn't talk to me on set.

00:02He only talked to Todd because he was immersed in this thing.

00:05And we did a take of that.

00:07And he would look at me when I talked to him.

00:09Joaquin would.

00:10And then he made this amazing choice where when I talk, he doesn't register me.

00:14He's locked in to Murray, Robert's character.

00:17And when I talk, he doesn't look at me.

00:19And that was a choice.

00:20I saw him make it.

00:21I know he was smart.

00:22Hey, hi, I'm Mark Maron.

00:23I'm a comedian, podcaster, actor, and cat owner.

00:28Come here.

00:28Oh, good timing.

00:30You're a real star.

00:31I'm here talking to the Hollywood Reporter about whatever it is they want to talk about.

00:36Right, Charles?

00:48You're the manager of this band?

00:50Yes, that and all.

00:51Come on, man.

00:51Yeah, well, you didn't finish your full set, man.

00:53Listen, pal, your shitty skate setup almost killed my guitarist.

00:57Yeah, well, you trashed my fucking dressing room and you didn't do it in 25 minutes.

01:00You're a bunch of amateurs, man.

01:03Come on.

01:03You want it?

01:04Come on.

01:05What do you got?

01:06What do you got?

01:07Take your fucking car, man.

01:09Watch the shirt.

01:10Watch the shirt.

01:11Almost famous.

01:12And I was almost famous for about 30 years after that.

01:16All in.

01:18What is that?

01:19What is that?

01:19What are you, Bruce Lee?

01:20I remember a lot of it.

01:22Like, it was very exciting.

01:23It was the first kind of real role for me.

01:26I don't know.

01:26You know, Cameron Crowe liked my energy.

01:28So he cast me out of New York and he's very nice to me.

01:31You know, they kind of let me improvise a lot of that.

01:34All I know is I hope you've got a good lawyer, buddy.

01:36Lock the gates on these f*** hands.

01:38He was walking around the set saying, we had to import this anger from New York.

01:42It was all pretty exciting.

01:43Everybody was pretty cool.

01:44It was pretty nice.

01:45We shot a lot more stuff.

01:46Watching it again, it was pretty good.

01:47I do remember the moments that I improvised and it was kind of, it's kind of funny because

01:52a lot of it was just kind of winging it.

01:54But Noah, Noah Taylor, he came in so hot.

01:57So I had to like kind of match that.

01:58But I'm Mark Maron.

01:59I live here alone with Monkey, Boomer, and La Fonda.

02:02They're cats.

02:03I had a wife, two actually.

02:04They're not dead.

02:05Well, they're dead to me.

02:06Well, actually, I'm dead to one.

02:08The other one, I could probably get back.

02:10Why are you telling me this?

02:11That's better than I thought.

02:13Maron was really the first indication that, well, I knew the podcast was popular, but before

02:17I started the podcast, you know, there was really no options for me.

02:21You know, so I didn't ever think I'd really do any acting.

02:24But then we pitched a show that's based on my life.

02:26These kind of shows were sort of around.

02:29It was really my first attempt at acting in a real way and doing some writing.

02:35And we just knocked this out, you know, and I knew going into it that I would not be good

02:40because I'd seen enough comics do a first season of a show where they're just not comfortable.

02:45Comics innately are a little self-conscious.

02:47I think I did better than I thought, but I knew I would have to learn.

02:50And that was sort of a kind of a grown-up disposition on the thing for me saying like,

02:56dude, just don't worry about it.

02:57You got to learn and people are going to see you learning, you know, but it's IFC.

03:01How big of a hit are you going to take?

03:04This is bad to see me stopping the podcast.

03:07The mouth is just looking for reasons to get me in trouble.

03:11IFC were great.

03:12Very supportive.

03:13We did four seasons.

03:14I don't know how many people really saw it, but the people that did liked it.

03:18And I think over the course of the four seasons, I got better.

03:21The scripts got better.

03:22The last season was interesting because it was not based on my life.

03:25It was sort of a worst-case scenario.

03:27Learned a lot of stuff.

03:29And yeah, I think I did all right just even by that clip.

03:33It's hard for me to tell, but like I'm glad I haven't seen it in a while.

03:36Happy first day.

03:37It's not sentimental present.

03:42It's vodka.

03:43It's classic star gift.

03:46It's 9 a.m.

03:47Oh, God, I know.

03:49That was Glow.

03:51And that's pretty funny.

03:53Me and Allison got along pretty good.

03:54I think I got along with all of them.

03:56And I think there was a nice dynamic that evolved between that guy that I was playing and all

04:00those ladies.

04:01I got that role on a video.

04:03Like, I shot the audition and I got it.

04:06I mean, they were apparently, you know, Jenji, Kohan was like, that's the guy.

04:10And Liz and Carly, the writers, they were into it.

04:14And that was the first big, you know, sort of TV job outside of my own show.

04:18But this one was a little more elevated.

04:20But it was great.

04:21You know, Sam Sylvia was pretty popular.

04:23He seemed to remind a lot of ladies of either their dad's or their dad's friend from that era.

04:29Like, I liked playing that guy.

04:31Murray.

04:31Hey, hey, hey.

04:32Mr. Franklin.

04:33Oh, come on, Gene.

04:34That's all bullshit.

04:37Thank you, Murray.

04:38What's with the face?

04:39I mean, are you part of the protest?

04:41No.

04:42I just thought I'd be good for my act.

04:44For your act?

04:45Didn't you hear what happened on the subway?

04:46Some clown got killed.

04:47He's a way with that.

04:48He's a way with that.

04:48Yeah.

04:49No, I hadn't heard.

04:50Yeah.

04:50You see, this is what I'm telling you.

04:51The audience is going to go crazy if you put this guy on.

04:54Maybe for a bit, but not a whole segment.

04:56Gene, it's going to work.

04:57It's going to work.

04:58I did better than I remembered.

04:59Well, you know, Todd Phillips likes comedians.

05:03He wanted me in that role.

05:04It was pretty exciting, you know, doing a scene with De Niro.

05:09There's a lot of waiting involved in acting.

05:11And it was a full set, the full talk show thing.

05:13And, you know, before the scene, I met Robert De Niro.

05:16And, you know, he was going through some stuff that day.

05:19But, you know, but he was a nice guy.

05:22But Joaquin was interesting because he wouldn't talk to me on set.

05:25He only talked to Todd because he was immersed in this thing.

05:27And we did a take of that.

05:29And in the first take, you know, he would look at me when I talked to him.

05:33Joaquin would.

05:35And then he made this amazing choice where when I talk, he doesn't register me.

05:39He's locked in to Murray.

05:40He's locked into Robert's character.

05:42And when I talk, he doesn't look at me.

05:44And now there's a choice.

05:45I saw him make it.

05:46I know he's smart.

05:48Because he's going to kill him.

05:56Hey.

05:58Can I be doing something?

06:00You make sure I don't wait.

06:14That was heavy stuff.

06:17That was too Leslie.

06:19That director really wanted me to do it.

06:20And I really didn't want to.

06:22And I couldn't understand why he wanted me.

06:25Then I got on the phone with him.

06:26And I'm like, why me?

06:28And he was a fan of my show.

06:31I think the last season of my show, Marin, I think is what he kind of locked into.

06:35And he just said, I think you have the emotional capacity for this guy.

06:39And I liked the last season of your show.

06:41And I'm like, all right.

06:41Well, that seemed genuine.

06:43And then I was like, I don't know if I can do the accent.

06:45You know, it's a Texas guy.

06:47He goes, don't worry about it.

06:48I took the role and I realized, well, this is a real part.

06:50It's definitely not me.

06:53So, like, once you try the accent, what do you got to lose?

06:55No one's going to see it.

06:58Just do it.

06:59And it was pretty exciting working with Andrea Riceboro.

07:02I didn't take into mind that she was such a great actress.

07:05I don't know.

07:05I knew her reputation.

07:07I just knew that I had to do my guy and she was going to do her lady.

07:11And I would just react to her.

07:13And it went pretty well.

07:14And people ended up seeing it because there was a big kerfuffle about getting her into the nominations for Best Actress,

07:22which I think caused her some anxiety.

07:25But I'm pretty proud of that work.

07:27Hey, you're that golfer, aren't you?

07:30Bryce Cahill.

07:31Used to call you Stick, right?

07:33Yep, that's me.

07:34This guy was a big pro golfer on television, everything.

07:3712th hole.

07:38Big tourney.

07:39Sawgrass, I think, maybe like 2009.

07:42Shanks went into the lake and just melts down.

07:44Full psychotic break on live TV.

07:48It was insane.

07:49Threw his clubs in the water.

07:50I bet you can't even look at a club after a train wreck like that, right?

07:54Stick on Apple TV currently.

07:56That was another one where they said they really wanted me to do it.

08:01And I said, I really don't want to do it because I'm an idiot.

08:06And it was just sort of like the whole idea.

08:09I'm kind of like an anxious, neurotic person.

08:12And the idea of like living in another city for three to four months, you know, not having a routine up there.

08:18How am I going to get all that together?

08:20The supporting role.

08:21It's going to be a lot of waiting.

08:22I don't know anything about golf.

08:25Why me?

08:25And I kept saying like, you know, there's got to be someone else that can do this.

08:30But they really had their mindset on me.

08:33Look, I love Owen.

08:34And the scripts were very touching.

08:36And the supporting cast was great.

08:38I'm just like, it's just, when I get offered things, I'm like, where is it?

08:43How long?

08:43How long is it going to take?

08:45Just stupid shit.

08:46But it was funny because I met the business affairs person when I went up there.

08:50And I was like, you know, I really was not going to do this thing.

08:53And she's like, we were going to get you.

08:56I didn't realize that that was sort of the thrill of their job.

08:58Like what I did by honestly saying no, they were like, oh, this is going to be good.

09:03We're going to break him.

09:04But I think the thing that what really struck me about these scripts when it came down to

09:09it as an actor was that these were two guys that were beaten up in a substantial amount

09:14of grief.

09:15And they'd been friends a long time.

09:17And there was a lot of unspoken between them.

09:20We're kind of both really these guys to some degree.

09:23Yeah, I think it's very honest characters for both of us to play.

09:27The writers and the showrunner was very kind of collaborative.

09:30And we kind of were able to find a zone where this guy had a life.

09:35And it came out pretty good.

09:36I mean, you know, people like it.

09:38And I think it's an emotionally moving series.

09:42Again, I'm Mark Maron, just to remind you.

09:44This is The Hollywood Reporter.

09:46And there'll be more in the article because they really want to get into this stuff.

09:52It was very nice.

09:53I had a good time.

10:00I had a good time.

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