Mark Duplass Breaks Down The League, Creep Tapes & His Most Iconic Scenes

Mark Duplass joins Scene Stealers to break down his career : from shooting Creep on a $100 budget in a cabin outside LA to building the Creep Tapes on AMC+ and Shudder, working with a teenage director on Backrooms, and reflecting on 15+ years of doing things his own way. He discusses mental health, mentorship, and why the old rules of "breaking in" don't apply anymore + scene breakdowns from The League, Creep Tape, Safety Not Guaranteed, and Paddleton.

Season 3 of Creep Tapes is out now on AMC+ and Shudder.

00:00 – Cold open

00:03 – Welcome + Creep Tapes Season 3

01:09 – The origin of Creep: shooting on a $100 budget with Patrick

02:38 – "It never has to see the light of day" : how Creep almost didn't exist

03:50 – Selling Creep to Netflix and finding an audience slowly

05:01 – Growing up in New Orleans and redefining what "success" looked like

06:02 – Survivor's guilt and why he mentors young filmmakers

07:28 – "I got my dream and I don't like it anymore"

09:50 – Why he keeps bouncing between big paychecks and $100 shoots

10:54 – Building an "oddball career" as actor/writer/director/producer