‘Still Up’ producer: ‘We were becoming insomniacs’

nypost.com:

AppleTV+.“I liked the oddball dialogue. I liked the relationship, because it’s not really a conventional romantic comedy. It’s really a piece about an unusual friendship,” executive producer Paul Schlesinger told The Post. “The fact that we were making so much of this at night really was a challenge.

We were doing these very odd hours for weeks on end. I call it ‘method filming.’ We were filming a series about insomniacs, and becoming insomniacs.

Our whole body clock was out of kilter — we were having lunch at midnight.”“Still Up” follows friends Lisa (Thomas, “The Good Doctor“), and Danny (Roberts), through their FaceTimes and phone calls.

Danny is agoraphobic and doesn’t leave his apartment or enjoy socializing, which often leads to amusing circumstances — including a scene where he tells his neighbors that he’s out of town to avoid their party and they have their gathering right outside of Danny’s window, which doesn’t have shades he can close. (So crawls around to avoid being spotted.) Lisa goes venturing out during their calls, and often gets into weird predicaments.