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Billy Bryk

Billy Bryk

Canadian actor and filmmaker

Jan 3, 2026

Mike DHOST
14:37
... and everybody else?
14:38
I mean, it's a good question, and you just have to trust that it was funny to you.
14:42
A- and like obviously when you see a joke a million times, it doesn't make you laugh every single time.
14:47
So sometimes you have that instinct to like can I push this further? Do I try to make this funny to me every time I'm watching it? But in my opinion, that's kind of a dangerous game to be playing, where it's like if this really made us laugh as we were writing it and we feel like this is the most sort of most grounded version of this performance, the, the, the read of this line that we think worked best, we have to trust it.
15:06
And then as we screen it for people and get other eyes on it, it's really helpful to see sort of what they're laughing at.
15:11
Um, and I'd say more often than not, the stuff that we thought was the funniest, like our instincts were right.
15:16
So, um, I don't know.

5 MINS LATER

Mike DHOST
20:46
What did you love about that role?
Mike D
Mike DHOST
9:53
it, and then you're directing it, and then you're seeing all the edits, and then you're thinking, like, now that people are seeing it, like, how can you think, like, is this still even funny to us and
10:04
everybody else? I mean, it's a good question, and you just have to trust that it was funny to you.
10:08
And, like, obviously when you see a joke a million times, it doesn't make you laugh every single time.
10:13
So sometimes you have that instinct, like, can I push this further? Do I try to make this funny to me every time I'm watching it? But in my opinion, it's kind of a dangerous game to be playing where it's like if this really made us laugh as we're writing it and we feel like this is the sort of most grounded version of this performance, the read of this line that we think worked best, we have to trust it.
10:32
And then as we screen it for people and get other eyes on it, it's really helpful to see sort of what they're laughing at.
10:37
And I'd say more often than not, the stuff that we thought was the funniest, like our instincts were right.
10:44
I don't know.
Mike D
Mike DHOST
12:17
So is this movie a lot of what you guys are in real life?

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