Jason Woliner
Paul T. Goldman’s Creator on the Show’s 10-Year Journey: “I Let Reality Steer This Whole Thing”
"I let reality steer this whole thing," director Jason Woliner says about the wild Peacock comedy's journey from Twitter to TV. Paul T. Goldman’s Creator on the Show’s 10-Year Journey: “I Let Reality Steer This Whole Thing” Liz Shannon Miller
Paul T. Goldman Clip Reveals How, Exactly, the Seth Rogen-Produced Docu-Comedy Came to Be: Exclusive
The baffling but fascinating Peacock comedy Paul T. Goldman might not make sense on the surface — how did a seemingly average middle-aged guy find himself telling the story of his life in the context of a streaming TV series? But in the below clip from the upcoming Episode 5, everything starts to make sense, as we hear and see just how Paul T. Goldman managed to get the attention of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner, who would go on to bring Paul T. Goldman the series to the screen. It turns out that Twitter played a big role in making the connection between the two men — though, as the clip reveals, Woliner wasn’t the only person Goldman contacted about his story. Not only do we get to see his intense methodology in action, but we also see Goldman try to pull Woliner out f...
Paul T. Goldman Is Hard to Describe, Impossible to Forget, and One Wild Ride: Review
The Pitch: “In 2012, a man named Paul T. Goldman tweeted at me,” is how director Jason Woliner (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Nathan for You) begins a note to the press about his new Peacock series. “He said that he had an incredible story to tell and had written a book – and a screenplay – about it. He asked for my help bringing it to the screen.” Ten years later, Woliner has done exactly that — though the form this story has taken probably wasn’t what Paul T. Goldman anticipated. Instead, the series is less a shocking tale of sex and crime and more a fascinating portrait of a man and his ambitions: his desire for fame, for revenge, or maybe just being seen. And seen he is, through a lens that is alternately dark, strange, bizarre, and, more often than not, very funny. Pieces of a Man: In t...
