How ‘Reno 911!’ Taught Kerri Kenney-Silver to Keep Up with Changing Times | ‘What No One Tells You’

When you’re capable to motorboat into a successful profession successful drama consecutive retired of college, landing a cherished cult sketch bid connected MTV and continuing connected successful deed shows for illustration “Reno 911!,” it’s easy to go jaded into reasoning you person each nan answers. However, successful reflecting connected these experiences during nan latest section of “What No One Tells You,” Kerri Kenney-Silver admitted that galore of her accomplishments person travel from keeping up pinch changing trends.

“When we did nan aviator for ‘Reno 911!’, it was the twelvemonth 2000,” she said. “Which sounds for illustration a sci-fi movie now, but, things were different. Things were different successful comedy, things were different successful nan world.” 

She added, “We conscionable did our astir caller ‘Reno’ movie 2 years ago, truthful it’s a 25 twelvemonth span of time. While nan characters person remained nan same, nan taxable matter has changed, and besides nan gait of drama is changing. If we stuck to our guns and did everything nan measurement we did when, erstwhile we first started, I don’t deliberation this show would’ve had arsenic agelong a life arsenic it has.”

Comedy has particularly changed since Kenney-Silver first started consuming it arsenic a child. Back then, she would watch “SNL” get distant pinch 10-minute sketches, but nowadays, she sees that “people are consuming drama successful 10-second bites.” Rather than disregard these shifts, it’s amended to clasp them and deliberation creatively astir what it intends for your art. Likening it to really integer quickly overtook movie and really now compartment phones are being utilized for master shoots, Kenney-Silver shared that advancement is par for nan course.

“I conscionable did ADR for a movie and they missed a line, truthful I did it from my chamber closet connected my iPhone and it’s successful nan film,” Kenney-Silver told IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking. “So you person to support up pinch exertion and support up pinch nan changing times.” 

Watch her section of “What No One Tells You” below.

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