When Bill Hader first moved to Los Angeles after graduating college, he was going west to pursue his dream of becoming a serious filmmaker, not a comedian. But like so many in their twenties who move to Hollywood to be creative, the need to pay the bills and the industry itself was a harsh reality.
“I was an assistant editor on ‘Iron Chef America’ and I was Pa for a long-time, Pa’d on a ton of movies and would just go to [arthouse movie theaters] and rent stuff every weekend,” said Hader when he was guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, along with his “Barry” co-creator Alec Berg. “All my friends, we just sat around in coffee shops and just bitched about movies and what people intended. Oh man, we were the worst.”
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“I was an assistant editor on ‘Iron Chef America’ and I was Pa for a long-time, Pa’d on a ton of movies and would just go to [arthouse movie theaters] and rent stuff every weekend,” said Hader when he was guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, along with his “Barry” co-creator Alec Berg. “All my friends, we just sat around in coffee shops and just bitched about movies and what people intended. Oh man, we were the worst.”
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After breaking up with a girlfriend, Hader was motivated...
- 6/22/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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