{"id":3840,"date":"2018-08-12T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/08\/12\/richard-linklater-on-casting-alex-jones-in-waking-life-i-just-thought-he-was-kind-of-funny\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:02:54","slug":"richard-linklater-on-casting-alex-jones-in-waking-life-i-just-thought-he-was-kind-of-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/08\/12\/richard-linklater-on-casting-alex-jones-in-waking-life-i-just-thought-he-was-kind-of-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Linklater on Casting Alex Jones in \u2018Waking Life\u2019: \u2018I Just Thought He Was Kind of Funny\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/alex-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alex-jones\">Alex Jones<\/a> may have been banned from Facebook and YouTube, but the Deep State can never take away his &#8220;Waking Life&#8221; cameo. We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/richard-linklater\/\" id=\"auto-tag_richard-linklater\">Richard Linklater<\/a> to thank for the InfoWars host, conspiracy theorist, and Sandy Hook truther&#8217;s most notable film performance, not that Jones was as dangerously unhinged back in 2001. That&#8217;s according to the filmmaker himself, who in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/richard-linklater-is-baffled-by-old-pal-alex-jones-rise-its-insane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a Daily Beast interview<\/a> said that Jones was simply &#8220;this hyper guy that we\u2019d all kind of make fun of&#8221; back then.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/06\/richard-linklater-peta-texas-am-university-dogs-exclusive-1201973905\/\" title=\"Richard Linklater and PETA Fight Texas A&amp;M\u2019s Experiments on Dogs With Muscular Dystrophy \u2014 Exclusive\">Richard Linklater and PETA Fight Texas A&amp;M\u2019s Experiments on Dogs With Muscular Dystrophy \u2014 Exclusive<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>A mere public-access TV host when he auditioned for a role in Linklater&#8217;s rotoscoped meditation on the nature of consciousness and reality, Jones is now a hugely controversial (and frighteningly influential) peddler of baseless conspiracies.\u00a017 years ago, however, &#8220;he wasn\u2019t so virulent, he just had all that energy,&#8221; Linklater added. \u201cI just thought he was kind of funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, to be fair, Jones&#8217; brief megaphone rant in the film is in keeping with its overall tone.\u00a0\u201cYou know, I haven\u2019t talked to him in years,\u201d Linklater said. \u201cI talked to him a bit during the Bush-Cheney years. He always positioned himself as anti. So when you\u2019re anti, he\u2019s your bedfellow.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/02\/richard-linklaters-secret-movie-1969-houston-coming-of-age-1201925976\/\" title=\"Richard Linklater\u2019s Secret Movie: The Director Confirms 1969 Coming-of-Age Film and Needs Your Help\">Richard Linklater\u2019s Secret Movie: The Director Confirms 1969 Coming-of-Age Film and Needs Your Help<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The writer\/director also finds it odd that Jones is \u201ctaken seriously on a national level. I would have never thought I\u2019d see the day when the president of the United States knew who he was, much less going on his show. It\u2019s crazy, it\u2019s insane, but it fits our times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jones&#8217; &#8220;Waking Life&#8221; scene:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Jones may have been banned from Facebook and YouTube, but the Deep State can never take away his &#8220;Waking Life&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-ZW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}