Check out what she had to say! How did you get into filmmaking, and more specifically editing? Over the course of pre-production, I helped put together animatics based on Roman's shot list. He liked my work so much that I was eventually hired as a line editor on the movie. That's when I fell in love with editing - it helped that it was on a pretty cool set I got to meet Bill Murray on that job and for a comedy-nerd from the Midwest, it was like I died and went to showbiz heaven.
That's when I realized how editing is almost like the final draft of the script. From there, I got an internship at Tim and Eric's Absolutely Productions and climbed the post-production ladder. We had worked really well together on a Netflix comedy special for Joe Mande. When he approached me about the project, it was an immediate yes - Sacha Baron Cohen has been my comedic hero since high school.
Sacha played him with such hilarious realism. During a time where gay marriage wasn't legal, it meant a lot to me to see a queer character make bigots look foolish. Getting the chance to work with Sacha was a dream come true.
I really enjoy working on dark, subversive comedy that directly confronts both real and imagined horrors and is shot out in the real world, which is how I would describe both a show like "Who Is America" and the work I have done with Tim and Eric.
The difference is that Sacha's show was my first stab at political satire. This is such a dark and absurd time in our country, and it was cathartic to work on a show that had such a strong point of view with no qualms about exposing hypocrisy. Working with Sacha made me feel like I was being constructive with the frustration I have with this current administration. What is your editing process like? With reality based comedy, so much of the writing and directing happens in post-production.
