It’s been two decades since brothers and mumblecore mavens Mark and Jay Duplass called Texas home. But shortly after taking the stage at Austin’s Stateside theater during this year’s South by Southwest festival, Mark Duplass told an easy-to-laugh crowd what he’s been saying publicly in interviews for years: the brothers cut their teeth in Texas (Austin, specifically), and have relied on the sort of casual creativity SXSW aims to foster since they were twentysomethings with filmmaking aspirations that didn’t quite fit the Hollywood mold. This time, though, Duplass wasn’t pledging his allegiance to Texas (or reminiscing on when he used to volunteer at SXSW to earn his attendance) before premiering one of his signature small-budget films. Instead, he was presenting a tasting platter of television pilots…
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