Jay Duplass had come to a turning point in his life and career. After years of mining personal stories, add those of his family, he’d decided that he was ready to tell other people’s stories.
That’s when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon approached him with a special project that fit the bill, Adam Cayton-Holland’s tragicomic script, and memoir, about his PTSD after his sister dies by suicide. It had Duplass both laughing and crying and wanting to help tell the story.
