Feb 13 2025 19 mins 1
In the history segment from our Patreon-only episode about The Truman Show, Matt and Laci cover:
- How The Truman Show started as a much darker script by Andrew Niccol about an alcoholic, philandering New Yorker.
- When director Peter Weir came aboard he had a few notes—like, why would this show be so popular if it's about a depressing, unlikable cheater?
- Jim Carrey based his performance on his dad, and was at a level of fame in 1998 that he could whole-heartedly understand a man who is literally the center of the universe.
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Source:
“Twenty Years Later, Everything Is The Truman Show” by Julie Miller | Vanity Fair, 2018 - https://bit.ly/41cSW8X
