The LivingWithYourself creator and star Paul Rudd unpack the 'jigsaw puzzle' of their Netflix clone dramedy
is going in somewhat blind to the very binge-able and theoretical twists and turns that await as the story unfolds. The eight episodes shift the narrative to show multiple perspectives and the story jumps back and forth in the chronological timeline.
With the season tightly written, the challenge then came in filming Rudd's dual roles, a task that the team — including Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who directed all eight episodes — first looked to Rudd to sort out. What ended up as a 61-day shoot also meant they had to film the eight episodes in the same amount of time typically allotted for a 90-minute movie..
"It was like he had two brains," Faris brags of the show's star. "Paul knew what he did last as the other character, while also trying to memorize what he was doing next." Dayton adds, "When you see his back, 95 percent of the time it’s Paul from doing both sides [of the shot]. There would occasionally be a moment in the edit room where the other Paul would disappear and you’d realize you had forgetten that he was acting to thin air.
Because the season was filmed in block shooting and out of order, Rudd would often jump back and forth from Old to New Miles and across various episodes. Keeping track, he admits, was like a "jigsaw puzzle" and would sometimes require helpful reminders from Greenberg and the script supervisor about what had happened in the prior scene for the Miles'.
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