Scene Stealers

Mark Duplass joins Scene Stealers to break down his career : from shooting Creep on a $100 budget in a cabin outside LA to building the Creep Tapes on AMC+ and Shudder, working with a teenage director on Backrooms, and reflecting on 15+ years of doing things his own way. He discusses mental health, mentorship, and why the old rules of "breaking in" don't apply anymore + scene breakdowns from The League, Creep Tape, Safety Not Guaranteed, and Paddleton.
Season 3 of Creep Tapes is out now on AMC+ and Shudder.

00:00 – Cold open
00:03 – Welcome + Creep Tapes Season 3
01:09 – The origin of Creep: shooting on a $100 budget with Patrick
02:38 – "It never has to see the light of day" : how Creep almost didn't exist
03:50 – Selling Creep to Netflix and finding an audience slowly
05:01 – Growing up in New Orleans and redefining what "success" looked like
06:02 – Survivor's guilt and why he mentors young filmmakers
07:28 – "I got my dream and I don't like it anymore"
09:50 – Why he keeps bouncing between big paychecks and $100 shoots
10:54 – Building an "oddball career" as actor/writer/director/producer
11:45 – Mentoring Colin Trevorrow and getting Safety Not Guaranteed made
13:24 – Working with Kane Parsons, the teenage director of Backrooms
15:03 – His mentorship philosophy: belief over advice
16:37 – Opening up about mental health on Instagram
20:15 – The response from fans and why it mattered
21:29 – The Russell Crowe "Beautiful Mind" analogy for mental health
22:11 – Seeing Tori Amos and what healing looks like over time
23:26 – Revisiting his SXSW "Cavalry" speech, 11 years later
24:22 – Why the path is more complicated now but the tenets are the same
25:28 – YouTube and Tubi as the new way to prove your show before streamers buy it
26:51 – CREEP TAPES
27:16 – Playing different characters every episode of Creep Tapes
29:11 – Half-writer, half-actor: his unscripted performance style
33:30 – "Balls equality" and nudity on his own terms
36:01 – SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
37:57 – Scene breakdown: Safety Not Guaranteed
40:12 – Pulling favors to make a $750K movie look expensive
41:15 – The scripts that never get made and why that's fine
42:11 – What actually gets him up in the morning now
43:10 – Sean Baker's Oscar run and stepping back from the chase
44:06 – Producing Elliot Tuttle's $50K film Blue Film
47:04 – THE LEAGUE
48:43 – Remembering $8,000-an-episode beginnings
50:20 – Why big "man-child" comedies stopped getting made
51:41 – Where Tires fits into that conversation
52:38 – Airport encounters and fans who want The League back
53:28 – Learning how to be gracious with fans
54:10 – Signing a six-year deal and deciding Season 7 was "mostly about the money"
56:14 – Behind the scenes with NFL players on The League
58:34 – PADDLETON
59:47 – Paddleton and the breath-holding trick that fooled Ray Romano
01:03:42 – Closing thoughts + where to watch Creep Tape Season 3

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Adria Arjona joins Scene Stealers with John Feitelberg to break down her most iconic movie scenes from ONSLAUGHT (in theaters now), HIT MAN, ANDOR, BLINK TWICE and SPLITSVILLE. Adria reveals the personal detail she pitched for her ONSLAUGHT character, goes deep on working with Tony Gilroy on ANDOR, talks filming SPLITSVILLE's real-blood fight scene with Dakota Johnson, and gets honest about why she can't stop spoiling secrets to the people closest to her.

ONSLAUGHT is in theaters now!

In this interview, Adria Arjona breaks down:

- The self-stabbing tic she came up with for ONSLAUGHT
- Making HIT MAN with Glen Powell and director Richard Linklater
- Working with Tony Gilroy on Star Wars' ANDOR
- Filming BLINK TWICE with Zoë Kravitz in Mérida, Mexico
- The insane real-blood fight scene in SPLITSVILLE
- Why A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE might be the best female performance ever
- Male vs. female directors, and why she wants to cancel method acting

00:00 – Intro
00:03:02 – Reginald Bell Johnson steals ONSLAUGHT
00:04:32 – "All I know is empathy"
00:05:23 – The self-stabbing scene she pitched herself
00:08:44 – HIT MAN
00:10:08 – Why Madison falls for a killer
00:11:19 – The Listerine strips
00:12:55 – Glen Powell's 100 characters
00:16:18 – ANDOR
00:17:12 – Reading her first Star Wars script
00:19:35 – Tony Gilroy picks up on the second ring
00:23:33 – Adria spoiled the ending (to her dad, boyfriend, brother)
00:25:32 – BLINK TWICE
00:26:08 – Living on set in Mérida, Truman Show style
00:27:37 – The Beyoncé needle drop story
00:28:38 – Male vs. female directors
00:29:51 – The actor she couldn't stand & "can we cancel method acting?"
00:32:40 – Monarch
00:34:55 – SPLITSVILLE
00:38:11 – The real-blood fight scene
00:39:46 – A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

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Mark Wahlberg & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sit down to talk By Any Means... Mark as real-life mob hitman Greg Scarpa, Yahya as FBI agent Wayne Strider and then dig into scenes from their own careers. Mark tells the wild story of almost turning down The Departed (and hanging up on his own agent over it), plus the real reason for that shower cap in the film's final scene. Yahya discusses Wonder Man's cancellation right after his Emmy nomination, working with Sir Ben Kingsley, and looks back at The Get Down, his first-ever job, next to where he is now.

Go see By Any Means, in theaters September 4th.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – By Any Means: building Wayne Strider & Greg Scarpa
05:36 – Shooting the film's hardest scenes
08:41 – THE DEPARTED
08:55 – Wahlberg almost turned down the role (the Ari phone call)
10:58 – The hair extensions / shower cap story
13:31 – WONDER MAN
13:49 – Yahya on the Season 2 cancellation
15:58 – Working with Ben Kingsley
20:02 – BOOGIE NIGHTS
20:15 – Burt Reynolds' complicated relationship with the film
24:43 – THE GET DOWN
25:02 – Yahya on his first-ever job vs. now
26:52 – Training & final thoughts

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Matt Johnson & Dominic Sessa Break Down TONY & Their Most Iconic Scenes

The director and star of TONY sit down to talk building the film from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, shooting on location in Provincetown, and the "layered heads" technique that makes every Matt Johnson movie feel so immersive. Plus, they break down scenes from BlackBerry and The Holdovers, and dig into the throughline of delusional ambition running through Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

TONY is out now in theaters, go see it.

Chapters:
0:00 – Cold Open
0:29 – intro
1:24 – Pulling scenes from Kitchen Confidential
2:08 – Getting the real stories from Larry Luster
2:54 – Best restaurant in Provincetown
3:15 – Writing dialogue only after casting the actor
3:38 – The line that defines the movie
4:42 – Matt's "next to Dom's feet" directing style
5:31 – Letting actors run long takes without cutting
6:07 – Why Matt’s movies feel so immersive
6:50 – The "layered heads" technique explained
8:22 – Leo Woodall becoming a Boston guy
9:05 – The punch scene with Antonio Banderas
9:42 – Most P-Town thing that happened off-camera
11:06 – The Yellow Deli
12:04 – Learning the real New England seafood culture
12:42 – Getting drunk, karaoke at the Colony Tap
14:07 – BlackBerry scene: "Where the vampires hang out"
16:23 – Casting Glenn Howerton and his ability to rage
17:23 – Making 1975 Provincetown feel lived-in
18:52 – The Nirvanna the Band The Show fireworks scene
20:10 – The Holdovers
20:56 – Alexander Payne's "90% of the role" theory
22:33 – "I make movies with people I like"
24:10 – The throughline of delusional ambition (BlackBerry, Nirvanna, TONY)
25:32 – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
26:23 – Matt hiding inside his own films / "The joke is on you"
27:08 – Go see TONY in theaters

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John Feitelberg sits down with Common for an all-new episode of Scene Stealers to break down the scenes that defined his career.

From his breakout role in Smokin' Aces to American Gangster, John Wick: Chapter 2, and Silo, Common reflects on the actors, directors, and moments that shaped him. He shares stories about learning from Denzel Washington, working alongside Keanu Reeves, and the decision to turn down a Kanye West tour to pursue acting.

Common also discusses what drew him to Robert Simms in Silo, why he believes acting can heal people, his pursuit of an EGOT, and the films that continue to inspire him.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Welcome & Becoming Robert Simms in Silo
01:28 - Why Common Chose to Play a Villain
03:11 - Can Acting Heal People?
06:16 - Lessons Learned From Playing Robert Simms
08:23 - Bradley Cooper & Obama
10:29 - Silo, Tim Robbins & Chasing an EGOT
14:50 - JOHN WICK : CHAPTER 2
15:00 - Behind the Scenes of John Wick: Chapter 2
17:24 - Keanu Reeves' Incredible Work Ethic
18:43 - AMERICAN GANGSTER
19:12 - Learning From Denzel on American Gangster
23:01 - SMOKIN' ACES
23:28 - Landing His First Acting Role (Smokin' Aces)
27:21 - Turning Down Kanye's Tour to Pursue Acting
29:19 - Working With Charlie Day on Fool's Paradise
31:44 - Why No Country for Old Men Is a Masterpiece
33:55 - The Comic-Con Lorax Story & Final Thoughts

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