The Office star bjnovak explores the stories that Texas tells itself in VengeanceFilm.
"Tell me if I'm slouching." It's early - early by journalism junket standards - in an upstairs room at Cooper's BBQ on Austin's Congress Avenue. If you've been to Austin during South by Southwest, the odds are pretty good you've been here. It's the kind of place that Ben Manalowitz has likely been.
Impressions are important, because they define how something or someone is viewed. Yet first impressions ofare now set in stone, and Novak is sending his story into the world. Ge said,"As a former standup, it's interesting to me how similar and different it is to play your movie. Because, on the one hand, you can sit back and relax, and it's all done. On the other hand, you can't change it. You can't go, 'You know, tomorrow night I'm going to open with the other bit.
You said that Texas self-mythologizes, well that myth is also packaged for export, and so when I looked at a map of the United States and asked,"Where would this guy have to go?" I saw Texas. First I went,"Well, that's just too hacky. Texas is such a mythological stereotypical larger-than-life idea." And then I went,"Well, that's why you have to go there, why you have to explore it.
The thing I learned on my many trips to small town Texas, to feel out what he would be encountering, was a paradox where the most intimidating, mythological, larger-than-life place was also the friendliest. So as much as he was an outsider he was also welcomed - which I think made it even stranger to him.
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