Exclusive: JayREllis talks making his directorial debut on tonight's insecurehbo.
This week's episode of the HBO comedy,"Lowkey Trippin'," went international, as Molly and Andrew went on a couples' vacation to Mexico with his brother, Victor , and his wife, Lydia . While the setting couldn't have been more beautiful, things didn't exactly go smoothly when Molly and Victor got into an argument over a hotel employee stepping out of line.
"I'm sure he thought I was about to beg him for a job," Ellis cracks of their interaction, which worked out in his favor. They traded emails, and ended up sitting down for a conversation about Peele's career, his transition to directing and how he approaches each project. told ET of Ellis stepping behind the camera."Like, he's been shadowing directors since season two, and before he even told me that he wanted to direct.
ET: You make your directorial debut in Mexico -- where there challenges to shooting in another country as a first-time director? 's fourth season]. I was just focused on directing. I had a hell of a crew around me. We brought all of our department heads with us, and then we had a Mexican production company who came from Mexico City that we worked with also. They were great, they were fully up to speed. They had everything we needed and we were easily able to communicate with them.
So, I broke my script down.
My DP, Michelle Lawler, and my producer on the episode is one of our EPs, Amy Aniobi, they were behind the monitor. I actually did not go back and watch any of it. I didn't watch playback, I 100 percent trusted them.It's for two reasons. A, I know Amy has such a strong point of view, and I've worked with her on so many episodes. I know if anything is off, she's going to come and tell me. And then Michelle, as my DP, it's just an eye that I trust.
I don't think we know who that phone call was to, but I think we could assume that it was to her. And I think Lawrence may still have some questions bouncing around in his head that haven't been resolved from episode four. He didn't get a chance to really shoot his shot if you will, because she got interrupted when she found out her headliner on the Block Party dropped out. So, I think there might still be a little bit of that.
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