Director Jay Roach goes into the desert with PatriciaArquette for quirky, noirish AppleTV series HighDesert
It's something Sydney Pollack, who was a mentor of his, once assured him was normal. He'd also read something similar about Mike Nichols in Mark Harris' biography. Good company to be in, sure, but still not the greatest feeling to be thinking"I've made a horrible mistake and how can I get out of this?"
Roach got the script, written by Nancy Fichman, Jennifer Hoppe and Katie Ford , from Ben Stiller, a longtime friend who is an executive producer, to see if he'd consider directing the pilot. Soon, Roach was asking to do all eight. Though he's still developing films, including a glamorous"Ocean's Eleven" movie, set in Monte Carlo in 1962 and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, he'd been interested in diving into longer-form storytelling.
"In Joshua Tree, everyone is a bit of a rebel and a recluse or, you know, a refugee of some sort," he said."All types of classes come out there to get away and end up hanging out with each other. There's so many contradictions and there is such a strong sense of community because there's almost a bonding over facing the challenges of surviving."
The cast was key -- a group of actors who are"comedy capable," Roach said, even if they're not known for comedy. The music helped enormously, too. From music supervisor Maggie Phillips to the cast, everyone had something to contribute.
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