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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Dee Jefferson

Jay Duplass: ‘Rocky is my favourite movie of all time. I’ve seen that film probably 20 times’

Jay Duplass poses, smiling, wearing a T-shirt with 'The Baltimorons' in baseball font, in a room with beige furnishings and curtains
‘A common problem with independent films is that there’s not enough story’ … Jay Duplass at SXSW 2025 in Austin, Texas. Photograph: Robby Klein/Getty Images for IMDb

Your new film The Baltimorons, about an improv comic who teams up with a divorcee dentist, has a very “yes and” energy. What’s been your wildest “yes and” moment?

My most memorable “yes and” moment is when I went home to New Orleans, where my friends who I grew up with were spending their weekends breaking into the local zoo and swimming in the tank with the sea lions. Not the seals – the sea lions. We had been out, it was one in the morning, there were many alcoholic beverages involved, and it involved waiting for the security guards to be looking the wrong way, finding the sea lion exhibit, climbing fences and diving in. Apparently when I jumped in, a sea lion had just swam right under me as I was hitting the water. I had no clue.

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