SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Living With Yourself,” streaming now on Netflix. When writer and producer Timothy Greenberg was a child, he used to have a recurr…
“I think that central question of identity and if you really could sit with another you, how would that make you feel, what would you think about seeing yourself from the outside is really interesting,” Greenberg tells. “But it’s taking that magical thought and applying it to much more mundane, daily life concerns: How am I doing at work? What am I like with my family and my loved ones? A lot of what the story is about is these very real-world, grounded things.
Greenberg admits he didn’t want to go too broad with any of the jokes or other situationally comical moments within “Living With Yourself” because he wanted to immerse the audience first in Miles’ newfound reality and then shift the focus to New Miles’ perspective. “Living With Yourself” packs a lot of story into the eight episodes because the show first considers sending New Miles off on his own but then pulls him back quickly to keep Miles’ world complicated. And then rather than keep this secret between himself and his clone, Miles starts to let others in on the truth, including the friend who referred him to the spa in the first place, which creates a second existential conversation with the show.
But he was always cognizant of not distancing the two men so much that “if you were going to run into one on the street, you were going to be thrown.” Four-and-a-half years ago when Greenberg was first working on this script, Rudd was at the top of the list for who he’d want to play both versions of Miles, in part because it was easy for him to imagine Rudd playing New Miles with that sense of “optimism and bright, loveableness that [Rudd’s] famous for.” But above that, he felt Rudd has “immense charisma” that lends itself to making the original version of Miles, who is “darker and more questioning and depressed,” more engaging.
“I think you kind of have to think of it in terms of accepting yourself and appreciating yourself and loving yourself for the things about yourself that you don’t like. That’s how you form a full-formed human being that has good parts and bad parts, and maybe the bad parts are actually good parts, and we probably need to accept ourselves for who we are and continually work on changing the things that can get better,” says Rudd.
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