Jay Duplass on Directing ‘The Baltimorons’ Without Brother Mark, Their ‘Conscious Uncoupling’ and the Film’s Pandemic Origins

Jay Duplass couldn’t help himself.

The 52-year-old New Orleans native — best known for his creative collaborations with his younger brother Mark and acting roles in Amazon’s “Transparent” and FX’s “Dying for Sex” — had been working on a script for a film with a bigger budget and scope than the low-budget comedies he and his sibling made their names with (“The Puffy Chair,” “Cyrus,” etc.). Then he connected with Michael Strassner, an actor-comedian he discovered via his comic Instagram videos, the creative dominoes fell, and in short order he found himself braving the December cold in Maryland directing “The Baltimorons,” about a six-months-sober improv comedian (Strassner) who cracks

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