- Hi Matt, how are you?
- I'm good, I'm good, I like your backgrounds.
- There's nothing there.
But I just realized when I was talking to Kathryn [Hahn],
that my light makes me look like I'm Mysterio.
(laughing)
Which you know, I'll take... It's all good.
Congratulations on the show.
It's, I've only seen the first three
but it's, it's fantastic.
So congratulations on, on it so far,
obviously this, I mean
you get a call, talk about Marvel.
You probably expect, oh, good.
You know, big explosive, end of the world
$200 million and they pitch you a sitcom.
(laughing)
Just wondering what your reaction was
to your first meeting
and why this one kind of stood out for you.
- You know, it's funny how they say, when you look back,
you, it sort of feels like where you ended up was inevitable.
And yet it seems like as you look forward
you have no idea where you're headed.
That's sort of how I feel about WandaVision.
You know, I was a child actor.
I grew up on sitcoms sets and
and then I became a director of comedies as well as dramas
as well as large scale action shows.
And then here was this opportunity to come
do something that involves kind of everything
that I've done in my life all at the same time.
And I mean, what can I say?
It's the job of a lifetime, yeah.
- Yeah, I can imagine it.
And also, I mean, there's so many periods, you know
you go for all these amazing periods
of American sitcoms TV history
which you wouldn't expect in this
but actually it works quite well for this particular story.
It must be great to, because you seem to perfectly
marry the story that you're telling
between Wanda and Vision, but also keeping to the concept
of this is, this is something a little bit different.
- Absolutely, I mean, the form is part
of the content and you know, that's part
of the puzzle box that we're building - the mystery is,
is what is this reality?
Why, why are they there?
And, and hopefully people are leaning in
and wanna figure out those answers.
- Kathryn just told me you filmed some of it
in front of a live studio audience,
which I didn't, I didn't know
which I think is incredible
because it adds to the authenticity.
How was that?
Because you have to film the thing
but also everybody wants to know secrets I'm sure.
- Yes, there are a lot of NDAs, you know
and confiscated cameras and all of that.
Marvel did an amazing job.
I'm still amazed that to this day
no one from that audience leaked any information about it.
And so hats off to them.
They're very honorable people and I thank them
but we had a great time.
You know, it was the first thing we did.
We started off that way.
It was our first episode
and the first thing we shot and we got together
and did our sit-com bootcamp, basically with all the actors.
And we studied all the different show references
and tone and style.
And then we went right into a proper rehearsal
and I do a lot of theater
and a lot of the actors do a lot of theater too.
And so it was very much like reversing a play.
You know, we rehearsed it
in a room separate while they were building the set.
And once the set was ready, we all got together in the set
and actually worked it out and really felt just like a play.
And really just like the way they did
I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke
And then, you know, all that amazing energy of,
oh my gosh, we gotta go out
and do this show in front of a live audience.
I mean, that is lightning in a bottle.
That's something you can't really create
just on a sound stage
working methodically the way we normally do.
And you can feel it in the Dick Van Dyke Show
you can feel the energy
of the audience the way they're playing off of each other.
And I think that's what we wanted to capture.
We wanted to make sure it felt the same way.
- Yeah, and how important is it for you guys to,
to make sure you focus on the story?
Because obviously everybody wants to know what comes next
how it's connected to the MCU, all that kind of stuff
but you guys are going to get there.
The important thing is that you tell the story first,
before you get to any kind of connecting,
connecting positions if you like.
- Yeah, we're getting there.
We're getting there slowly.
And if you're paying close attention where
we're maybe getting there quicker
than you realize, but yeah, I mean for us
it was about creating authentic worlds and grounding that
even though the comedy can be broad, but you know
this show is... it's many things.
It is a comedy and it is a trip down to golden
the golden age of TV history, but it is also a romance.
It is a drama, it is a large-scale action show.
It is all those things.
And so it was about carefully balancing those, those stories
and those tones as we sort of build to the big conclusion.
- Absolutely, well thank you so much for your time.
I will quickly say I love the little adverts.
(laughing)
That nice, that nice little nuggets
that you're talking about that yeah.
If you, if you know your Marvel, very interesting.
Thank you so much for your time
and good luck with the rest of the show.
- Thank you, you too.
- Thanks so much, cheers.
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