Silicon valley actor dies today9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Like most bootlegs, the man filming it kept getting up to go to the bathroom. I traded 11 hens and 20,000 Renminbi to buy a pirated version of it. I liked it better when I was on it, but I’m a bit of a self-absorbed blowhard, and occasionally I was on enough opium that I realized I wasn’t watching it, I was watching two turtles fight to the death for the purpose of gambling. Miller's Messy Exit)Īs a viewer, what do you think of the Silicon Valley finale?ĭogs on scooters and skateboards? Spoiler alert - my favorite part! No, but I loved it. 'Silicon Valley' Confronts a "Darker Side" of Tech Culture (and T.J. I have eaten chicken feet and dim sum with him. Yang - who has become both a friend and a cultural ambassador for me to all things Chinese. I feel so lucky because I was friends with those core guys from the get-go (and a couple from long before the show), and I also got to work with people I didn’t know, like Amanda Crew and Jimmy O. I was texting with Mike Judge and Clay Tarver over Thanksgiving just congratulating them and also thanking them for making me a part of the show, and for all I had learned from them and all the laughs we made and shared. Opium den, and then self-actualization, reincarnation (metaphorically) and appreciation of life.ĭid you miss being a part of the show in the end? Have you kept in touch with anyone involved? What do you think of the original idea?Īs far as killing me off literally in the narrative, I’m sure it would have been funny, and at that point they could do whatever they wanted - but I’m pleased they left a little mystery, that’s more fun for the audience. Judge and Berg told the Hollywood Reporter that they initially made it more clear that Jian-Yang killed Erlich, but then decided to pull back a bit and keep it mysterious. ![]() I thought it was great - especially because I’m such a Jimmy O. How did you feel about how they wrapped up your character Erlich Bachman’s storyline with Jian-Yang assuming Erlich’s identity in Tibet and it being open-ended what actually happened to Erlich? Richard (Thomas Middleditch) ended up working for Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) on ‘Tethics,’ Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) co-founding a company, Jared (Zach Woods) working with the elderly, Big Head (Josh Brener) the president of Stanford, Monica (Amanda Crew) working for the NSA, Gabe (Aristotle Athiras) being so, so funny - again. To see them fail and succeed and fail and then fail at failing and then fail - it was perfect. So, like that experience but times 10, I was able to be surprised at every turn and especially by the finale! So fun. I am better off the cuff, it would allow me to see jokes for the first time, and so my laughter would be genuine and a surprise - very helpful in a room full of executives and people who already knew the jokes. That’s why I would come to table reads and do a cold read, not reading the script beforehand. I better appreciated the way the series was always a roller coaster - when you are on the show you know how it’s all going to end before it even airs. Again, so interesting to not know what was going to happen the entire season. I watched it Monday afternoon with Kate and it was perfect. The show really flourished and developed into something very different from when I was on it, so as always, I am a fan.ĭid you watch the finale on Sunday? If so, what did you think of it? I also immensely enjoyed what I had hoped - that Amanda Crew and Jin Yang and all of the characters had more room to grow and more screen time they deserved with my departure. ![]() So it was fun to laugh at these guys who are so funny and so great and had developed these characters for so many years. I was able to just enjoy everyone’s performance without being taken out of it by either remembering other takes from the day or what was going on in our lives the day we shot this or that, and also not having to turn into an analyst of my performance and study what was chosen and not, and then try to return to just watching it. It was so interesting and quite fun to be able to watch the show as an audience member and not part of the making of it. Actually in the week before you reached out for the interview, I had been bingeing a couple episodes here and there and just finished the final season. I saw the first few episodes where Jin Yang tried to use a pig to impersonate my body and claim ownership of the hacker hostel, which I thought was very funny. Not regularly - only because I’ve been touring. Have you been watching Silicon Valley since you left the show? ![]()
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