How an Unlikely Hollywood Juggernaut Came to Rule Netflix - Wired
The streets of downtown Austin are stirring blearily to life as the turducken street taco that is SXSW—a weeklong tech expo wrapped inside a film festival and finished off with a music showcase—shakes off the previous night’s revelry. But backstage at the Austin Convention Center, where he is due to deliver the film festival’s keynote address, director-producer-writer-actor Mark Duplass is rested and alert. Mark is a 38-year-old former athlete—he ran track in high school—and he possesses that strain of shticky carb anxiety common to the contemporary middle-aged male. ” Tomorrow he will give an interview to Salon in which he refers to them as a source of “extreme joy” followed by intense regret: “With years of therapy, we’ve been able to extend that doughnut joy from the 12 seconds of eating to another three... ” The point is, Mark is used to regulating his impulses for his own protection, and that’s why he eschewed yesterday’s industry parties and screenings in favor of a couple of miles on the treadmill and eight hours of sleep and why now, while the... Judging purely by his résumé, Mark is a fitting keynote speaker for SXSW’s maximalism. Source: www.wired.com
