INTERVIEW WITH THE PUFFY CHAIR DIRECTOR MARK DUPLASS

DAVE: What was the genesis for The Puffy Chair? And what about the project seemed like it might breathe fresh air into the “road movie” story?

MARK: We had a short at Sundance in 2003 and also one in the 2004 festival. We noticed that the feature filmmakers got much cooler shwag than we did as short filmmakers... it was our hope that THE PUFFY CHAIR would breathe fresh air into our shwag bags... it was also our hope to help launch our careers and stop living off of our parents...

DAVE: What happened to the actual Puffy chair?

MARK: well, like when casting kids in a movie, there were actually 2 of them... twin puffies... one is no longer with us and one is sitting in our lead actor kathryn aselton's basement... we visit him once a year... he loves fruitcake...

DAVE: Is there any truth to the rumor that Jerry Seinfeld is suing you claiming that the title Puffy Chair is a rip off of his famous “puffy shirt?”

MARK: i hope so... would be amazing publicity for our IMPENDING DVD RELEASE ON JANUARY 23rd!!!!

DAVE: How do you know I’m not an underage female and that dateline isn’t monitoring these exchanges?

MARK: i don't... i can only hope...

DAVE: If you challenged the Polish brothers to a fight who would win? Would the outcome still be the same if they had to pretend they were the conjoined twins from Twin Falls Idaho?

MARK: we would definitely lose... definitely... i think the only set of brothers i'm confident we could beat up would be the lumiere brothers... mostly because guys were smaller back then and they're dead...

DAVE: If you wanted to make a horror film with the title The Puffy Chair what would it be about?

MARK: you would have to unscramble the letters in BARCALOUNGER to discover clues about where chair was buried... with the ancient goblet of Lord Bunski hidden inside the chair, which would unleash the evil spirits of the underworld upon the world... until one man had the courage...

DAVE: What is next for the Duplass team?

MARK: movies movies movies... we shot one in october that'll be ready next year, and we've two more we're doing in the big dawg studio system (but with nice people)... also, we sold a really cool TV show to NBC that I'm pretty sure they're not gonna let us make... also, jay and i played tennis this morning at 8am and we had a lot of fun... we hope to do more of that...