ItsAlanYang

Busta was incredible. He was supposed to show up to shoot at 7 in the morning. At 7:01, we started to get nervous he wouldn't show up, because he's a famous rapper with other stuff to do. But he showed up right then. I tried to give him his sides for the day (little copies of the script that he can refer to), but he told me he didn't need them, that he knew all his lines. And he did. He was totally off book.

Also, he improvised the line "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go fuck with some of those shrimp." Which is one of my favorite lines in the show.

Next year the show is going to star Forest Whitaker as a down-on-his-luck cop investigating a drug ring on the streets of Memphis who gets embroiled in a dark mystery involving illegal crocodile smuggling, the yakuza, and an evil Haitian priestess with whom he has an electric physical chemistry.

I haven't told Aziz about this plan yet.

Paro

Dude sounds like that in real life

From the beginning, we wanted it to feel less like most of the single camera comedies that are out there and more like a loose, personal, realistic comedy from the 70's. A big part of that was the look of the show. We'd definitely like to thank our DP Mark Schwartzbard, who is supremely talented and maybe even a better guy than he is a DP if that's possible, along with James Ponsoldt, who directed episodes one and three, is an unbelievable director, and maybe even a better guy than Schwartzbard if that's possible.

We pushed really hard for the anamorphic aspect ratio. We did a camera test where it was Aziz's stand-in Danny looking through some papers. With the regular aspect ratio, it looked pretty boring. But then with the anamorphic ratio, we were like, "What's Danny looking at? That shit looks interesting as hell!"