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Welcome again to my very irregularly scheduled podcast Deep Focus, the place I, Playlist.web Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez, discuss lengthy or long-ish with completely different filmmakers, administrators, writers, and actors. Today, my visitor is none aside from comic/actor and podcaster extraordinaire Marc Maron. Maron has a brand new HBO particular out, obtainable now on HBO Max, referred to as “Marc Maron: From Bleak To Dark.”
I’ve been deeply underneath the climate, so let me apologize upfront for this pod being so delayed. The HBO particular is humorous, political in one of the simplest ways, humanist, and in addition soulful and candid, coping with many issues like grief, mortality, getting old, and our present cultural local weather.
I’ve been listening to Maron for years, possibly not solely from the start—his podcast launched in September 2009, within the early days of the podcast—however most likely inside a 12 months or two of debuting. I’ve listened to him interview every kind of attention-grabbing individuals. Perhaps extra importantly, I’ve heard the 59-year-old comic evolve and embrace humanity, vulnerability, empathy, and kindness—a far cry from the indignant, grumpy cliché the place Maron began. Listening to him develop as a human being over time has been a heartening journey, and I even delved into {that a} bit. As biting, satirical, and slicing as his comedy might be, I believe on the marrow of lots of it today, or not less than Maron himself, is a way of compassion and understanding. Or, as he calls it, the “evolving capacity for empathy,” which I advised needs to be the title of his autobiography if he ever writes one.
Two of the matters that Maron engages in bits that talk to this are his father’s mortality—his dad is coping with early onset dementia, and their relationship is therapeutic, however nonetheless sophisticated—and the colossal blow he was handled throughout the pandemic.
In May 2020, simply two months after the pandemic began and shutting down most of North America—the key citifies that took it critically—Maron’s romantic associate, the indie filmmaker Lynn Shelton all of the sudden handed away. Known for her associations with the mumblecore motion but in addition humanist and vibrant small-scale indies, “Your Sister’s Sister,” “Touchy Feely,” and “Outside In,” Shelton died—type of out of nowhere—from acute myeloid leukemia on the age of 54, after a number of days of sick well being. She had been undiagnosed and wonderful till the week earlier than her loss of life, so the complete factor was emotionally brutal and completely sudden for everybody.
Anyhow, Maron obtained very candid and weak about Shelton within the particular, it’s most likely the spotlight of all of it, humorous, unhappy, tragic, but in addition uplifting in its personal bizarre means, and we obtained into all of that too. He calls the post-trauma of all of it “mystical” as a result of all these odd, coincidental, kismet-like issues stored taking place that he attributed to doubtlessly… not speaking with Shelton from past the grave, however… Look, he sees it as absurd too, however in the event you watch the particular, some unusual issues did occur that he not less than needs to acknowledge.
It was an actual deal with, honor, and pleasure to have Maron on the podcast, and dare I say; I believe this is a wonderful dialog. We obtained into many various particulars of the particular and talked about Lynn. He even opened up in regards to the screenplay he was co-writing with Shelton earlier than her loss of life, and his blended emotions about reviving it and possibly making it right into a film—the quick finish of the reply is probably not. Possibly sure, at some point, although he did disclose to me that he despatched it to indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener identified for “Enough Said,” “Friends With Money” and her most up-to-date Sundance movie “You Hurt My Feelings” (you may learn extra about that right here).
Anyhow, I actually cherished speaking to Marc; I consider we had a terrific dialog that’s one in every of my current favorites, and I hope you hear and share it with these you’re keen on.
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