Markiplier

Like,

Jim Carrey's The Grinch over and over again at Christmas, even though I know it's not a great movie, but I love that movie so much.

Holiday classic.

Yeah, I know I should.

And I don't give myself a lot of time to enjoy enough movies as an art form.

So I will say I probably should have, but I know of them and I kind of had an idea of what they were doing with them.

I did watch some behind the scenes of those movies.

I knew that I could do it because with YouTube, I've done that for all my other projects.

I've been lead.

And I think...

there has to be some, it's not ego, right?

Because I don't really like acting all that much.

I'll do it and I feel like I'm good at it, but I like so much more the other parts of putting the story together.

But also I knew what I wrote was so brutal to this character that I kind of didn't want anyone else to suffer through what I had to suffer.

And a lot of my fans are going to hear that and be like, oh, he's a masochist and he really wants to put himself through it.

But if this was going to be kind of

uh like earning my place like you know a trial by fire of me entering this art form i wanted to see myself rise to that challenge i wanted to be able to put forward the performance necessary to earn this spot as an actor and i wanted to do it so that if i go into any other projects i'm working with actors which i've obviously worked with actors before

I want to know that process intimately and the suffering that can go into it and the struggles that can go into it so that I can better communicate as a director to actors in the future how to get through these scenes and approach them and the perspectives needed to get there.

I think that there is a great value in knowing enough about the other departments and how they work together.

as a director that you can communicate in their language like i i know a lot of vfx now i'm not as skilled as the vfx team that worked on this but i i have learned a lot through it so that i can know when i'm asking them something impossible right and as a director with an actor how can i know when i'm asking something impossible or that i shouldn't expect if i've never been through that myself or i don't know the limits of my own ability so i can't expect