As his candidate eyes a second campaign, Citizen Weiner director Daniel Robbins helps separate the fact from fiction in his “reality movie.”
On October 25, once and future New York City Council candidate Zack Weiner hosted a rally in Washington Square Park. When I arrived, a large crowd had gathered in front of the Arch. I was impressed.and his latest supermodel cover star. The Weiner campaign was instead posted up at a table set further back in the park.
We panicked—what do we do? What do we film? Zack was just so upset, laying in bed. I said let’s film this, it might work. Let’s lean into it. So we called the whole team over and they all met in Zack’s room. I didn’t give him lines, it’s just him talking about documenting a year of failures. And getting votes and getting attention, and how nobody cares about his scandal. That scene, to me, is the funniest in the movie. A good scene in a movie is a scene that can only exist in that film.
AVC: Sometimes I’m legitimately scared for the actors in those projects because the other people are sometimes violent or angry. Were there moments duringI don’t think so, because it’s local politics on the Upper West Side, so it’s a pretty tame crowd. But there was a point where Jeff Coltin, when he was the city and state reporter at, came to Zack’s rally, where there’s people with ball gags and there’s a big crowd chanting his name.
Walking out of the theater, some people think it’s real the whole time, some people halfway through had a feeling it was fake, some people walked out and even after the reveal, they didn’t realize it was fake. The main thing was just keeping the actors as authentic as possible and trying to not to have what Mike Nichols calls “expensive jokes,” which are jokes that are funny but they stretch the reality too much and they make the rest of the jokes in the film less funny.
AVC: I spoke to Zack about potentially doing another campaign. I asked how he could do this again if people know there’s already a movie about the first campaign, and he said that the voters actually seemed to like it. It was a bit of a selling point and gave him some positive attention. What do you make of that?He’s definitely right and it’s bizarre that someone made a movie about running for city council while they ran for city council, which you’d think would make people not trust him.
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