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 Ken Marino
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Ken Marino is one of New York’s most perennial talents. He’s best known for his work on the enduring MTV sketch show favorite The State and has since been known for his various recurring roles on TV series like Dawson’s Creek, Charmed, and Veronica Mars, as well as his short-lived comedy series Stella on Comedy Central. Marino reunites with his former State co-star David Wain to co-write and act in the film The Ten, which is now available on DVD. The movie’s a series of ten vignettes loosely based on the Ten Commandments. He appears in the “Thou Shall Not Kill” vignette as Glenn Richie, a doctor who kills his patient as an accident. We spoke with Ken and had many questions for him regarding the sheer oddness of this film. The first we asked was whether The Ten’s origins as The Ten Commandments had any special significance. “Certainly, our intention was not to make any sort of comments or any sort of statement about religion or anything for that matter. We took, as we did with every story, we took our very silly premise and think it through and execute it as seriously and as artfully as we could.” Marino insists. We also asked the now 39 year old actor how he and David if they made any rules for themselves in structuring a film of this caliber. “It is true,” Ken says, “There’s a lot of random, non-sequitur, service humor, but there’s probably far more method to the madness than might be apparent, because it’s not like yeah, whatever, whatever, like every single line is poured over and every little structural element, we actually made the choices as to where to carefully break convention and when to break the rules and when to stick to rules and when to wink, when to break to full-throttle.” “Yeah,” he continues, “I mean the order changed a little bit in editing, but that was the idea that we would change it up enough so it would hopefully not feel monotonous, but that’s the built-in inherent risk of any sort of sketch-oriented movie is like, OK, you got to start all over again with another one. There are tangents and extra things that were very funny, I think, but just for time, we had to cut. Even though we thought we had a tight-cutted, it was a two hour plus cut and we just said it has to be 90 minutes, no matter what, period.” Also on deck was whether there were any moments in the film Marino thought went too far. “Not really,” he says, “If we thought it was funny, we left it in, if we thought it was funny, we took it out. That’s the only barometer that means anything in comedy. I mean certainly, in a rated R movie like this, you know if ... |
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