Nathan Fielder Lance Oppenheim PRIMETIME

    by Anjali Filmi: Lance Oppenheim

    Lance Oppenheim confirms Nathan Fielder offered significant behind-the-scenes help on PRIMETIME. The director shared works in progress with him and discussed Robert's performance constantly. They also talked about methods to adjust the production process, specifically tuning the machine a little bit.

    Transcript (en)

    Well, Nathan's a very close friend, and we've gotten to know each other very well over the course of the last several years. And, you know, we made this film together. You can see everything. The same crew of this film, you know, my cinematographer, my composer, several of my producers also worked on that movie. And that movie we had been working on well before Primetime ever came around. Of course, I would show him works in progress. I would talk to him all the time about the performance of Rob. I would talk to him about ways in which we could sort of tune the machine a little bit. But I also, I made these two films at the same time and he was, as a collaborator, very generous to me and as a friend, you know, being aware of just the intensity of the experience of making two films at once. I put him in the very special thanks as a way to honor the amount of time he had spent talking with me about the film and also living with me, more or less, while I made it. Always being an encouraging force for good and positivity and keeping things fresh and alive.