Jay Duplass & Michael Strassner On The Art of Creative Rebellion

The movie is set during six months of sobriety and that's one thing that Michael talked about a lot is how there aren't a lot of movies about early sobriety. There's a movie's about what it takes to get sober, but this movie really is about being early sober and still being an alcoholic and really not knowing how to do it. And, you know, there were so many poignant moments about that when Michael was telling me his personal story that made me want to tell this story. And, you know, one of 'em was, you know, his

desperate fear of like never being funny again. That was your biggest fear in terms of getting sober is like being funny is everything that you were at the time and what you felt like you had to offer the world. And if you are sober and you can't do that, obviously you made the decision that it wasn't worth living in that moment. I was downstairs in my basement And my best thinking was, uh, I don't think I want to be here anymore, you know?

So I tried to hang myself and uh luckily the belt broke and the next day was the first day I actually asked for help. So there was a brief chapter of my life, this period of time in which I was beginning to kind of give my curiosity wider birth to explore new projects and do interesting and different types of creative things while also looking for, you know, kind of ways out of my lawyer career, but also before the full-blown existential crisis meets healthscare incident that uh, you know, basically precipitated the chapter that I'm most well known for, which was my period of lifestyle upheave and then ultra endurance competition. But the phase I'm talking about right now is a phase of my life that I actually don't think I've talked about very much.

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