But it’s really nice to have people accepting it this way and championing it. And we certainly didn’t make any promises like that.
It’s nice that people like it, but you don’t want them saying it’ll change your life, because I don’t think anyone can keep that promise. I like to set the bar very low for expectations and then you can just step over it. You can’t talk about the thing itself.ĭo you ever worry about people over-hyping it? Because I’m now seeing so many celebrities on social media saying, ‘You have to see this, it will change your life.’ And even after you see it, it's difficult to talk about it since you’re forced to talk around the edges of it. So going into it with a clean slate, I think is the best way to approach it. Not for the element of surprise, it’s just there’s nothing I think you could say that wouldn’t somehow transform the experience before it started. I think not knowing is probably the best thing. What, if anything, do you think people should know before checking it out? So I usually just say, trust me, watch it. I’ve been recommending it to everyone I know since watching it last week but it is very hard to explain what it is. Now I don’t even know how many people are seeing it at any given moment, so it's a little bizarre. Doing it for 150 people a night-that was my reference point, that’s all I knew. It’s been surreal to have something that’s been with me for so long now be in the world and that so many people are able to see it at once. What has it been like for you to have this film out in the world? We’re talking close to a week after In & Of Itself premiered on Hulu. But he did break down why he wanted to pull them off and shared the one moment he realized he had done it. Speaking by phone a few days after the film’s release, DelGaudio wouldn’t tell me how he achieved the most elaborate elements of his astonishing show. Even watching at home, you will be floored. The payoff comes at the end of the show when DelGaudio uses those individual identifiers to blow the minds of his crowd one by one. With that in mind, each audience member who enters the theater selects a card that says “I am an architect” or “I am a teacher” or “I am an oracle.” Just twice over the course of nearly 600 shows, someone chose “I am a racist.” In & Of Itself is exceedingly difficult to categorize, but at its core it is about identity and how we see ourselves compared to how we are seen by others.
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