Mark Duplass Interview: No One Wanted to Finance Penelope in the Time of Euphoria
12Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn, and the team over the Duplass Brothers Productions have been leading voices in the independent filmmaking space for years now. But, Penelope marks a big first for the team. It’s their very first independently produced television show, a venture Duplass dubbed, “the biggest financial and creative risk that our company has taken so far.”
Little Fire Everywhere star Megan Stott headlines Penelope as the title character, a 16-year-old who feels out of place in the modern world. With no plan in place, Penelope opts to leave her family behind to head into the wilderness. While she begins her journey with no supplies or skills, by necessity, Penelope acquires survivalist abilities that merge with a coming of age evolution that help Penelope build a different kind of life for herself.
While in Park City celebrating Penelope’s world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Duplass, Eslyn, Stott, and Austin Abrams visited the Collider interview studio presented by Film.io to discuss their experience making an independent television show. Check out the video above or the interview transcript below to learn all about the genesis of the idea, the song Abrams created and performed in the show, the lessons learned from the survival course Eslyn took, why Stott found the role of Penelope especially liberating, and loads more!
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