My official stance on Teddy is that hes being played by himself.
That said, Murai was more than willing to talk about what it was like directing Teddy Perkins.
It was very unnerving, he says.
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You could never really tell if things were registering with him, and his reactions were very muted.
Everybody was just so uncomfortable being around him.
Even though he couldnt tell how he was feeling, Murai says Teddy was very responsive to direction.
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He was a total pro, he says.
I think the pacing is way more deliberate than usual.
We focus a lot more on the silence between lines.
I think youll recognize ticking clocks in the background more.
And visually, too, I think we slightly stylized it less.
Theres a little more of naturalism, or a matter-of-factness, visually, than usual.
But it was about calibrating that stuff.
It smelled like 10 hardboiled eggs in a giant bowl, he says.
When he opened it and was digging around in it, that was an actual soft-boiled ostrich egg.
Thankfully, Teddy was spared having to actually eat any of it.
When he was eating it, we swapped it out for an egg with custard and pudding in it.
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