‘Manson Family Vacation’ at SXSW

We talk to Jay Duplass, Linas Phillips, Tobin Bell and J. Davis about the making of 'Manson Family Vacation' at SXSW.

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00:00what's up guys we're at the intercontinental in Austin Texas for South by Southwest in just a

00:08few minutes these four empty chairs will be filled by the guys from Manson Family Vacation I'm gonna

00:12sit in my chair do the cool leg cross thing and wait patiently the Manson Family Vacation where

00:20was the original inspiration for it and did you ever worry that people were gonna see the title

00:26and be like huh well no it's Charlie's idea we he had a film that he always wanted to make besides

00:33being a music you know wanted to get into the music business he wrote screenplays and this we

00:38just took one of his old screenplays and we're just trying to make that he's lying yeah he's lying

00:43don't don't give him the mic so the project kind of started by my expressing my interest in you know

00:51the Manson crimes and the Manson Family to Jay and Jay and I are friends we have a lot in common this

00:59was not something we had in common um so I wrote this script to sort of explore this difference

01:07between us well yeah he told me about the story idea and it was so disturbing but it had it was so fertile

01:14with possibility you know because ultimately the film is about these two brothers who are very very

01:21different see the world in different ways and are moving apart at such a rapid pace that you know

01:26their relationship seems to be disintegrating and it really is about you know exploring the roots of

01:32fanaticism and why someone would go to that place and the kind of love that it will take to prevent that

01:38level of fanaticism well I play the outcast brother and I was adopted and I always felt like ostracized in

01:44the family and I think there's a metaphor between the you know that and the relationship people have

01:51with Manson Manson talked a lot of about a lot of interesting things and so I think my character

01:56resents when he's just defending Manson he's really defending himself and the way that he's seen in the

02:01family it's a very very complex relationship and he's on the precipice of like going to a different

02:06world and the challenges is how do we keep a family together how do you keep dangerous things from

02:12happening and it all really comes back to love and I think that's why we were all attracted to the

02:16project one of the cool things about a comedy is that you can which it is it's a it's a funny movie

02:25is that you can accomplish as much in a comedy as you can in any other genre you can have character

02:33and relationship scary moments I think the film has all of those things all right guys that's it the

02:40Manson family vacation