![]() ![]() ![]() I was 10 years old when Barney hit PBS, so I was a little too old for Barney. THH: What made you wanna tackle Barney? Were you a Barney kid growing up?Īvallone: No, I wasn’t. He’s like, “You should just make it,” and that’s kind of what I did, and I just haven’t looked back since. And one of our scripted movies was at a film festival, Morgan Spurlock was there, and I just started talking to him about documentaries. My first documentary was called I Am Santa Claus, and it was just an idea that I had where I was like: Here’s this person that’s in your family photo every year I wonder what life he goes home to. It’s something that I would eventually like to get back to, but it was a skillset that I wasn’t ready for and I’ve always thought about making documentaries. I know that you’ve done a number of documentaries and I’m just curious about what it is about that medium that either speaks to you or just makes you return to the medium.Īvallone: I mean, dude, when I was younger, I wanted to be Kevin Smith, you know, like I wanted to make scripted movies like Clerks, you know? It was something that I always wanted to do, but I would make these movies with me and my friends and it was just very hard for me to get them to do what I was thinking, you know? And I initially thought I was just a bad director, I think a little bit has to do with my friends also not really being actors, but there was something about directing actors that I wasn’t fully comfortable with. THH: Well I do have a lot to unpack with this because I grew up watching Barney, actually terrified of Barney, so this will be a fun conversation. Tommy Avallone: Oh, thank you. Well, the green, it’s always been - this is my basement - so it has nothing to do with Barney, but the purple was totally intended. The Hollywood Handle: Congratulations on the documentary - I love your setup with the green walls, purple shirt and the little Barney plush in the background. Avallone and I spoke over Zoom about the origins of this documentary, the toxicity of Barney and we even got to briefly nerd out over WWE. Talking with Tommy Avallone, director of the new Barney documentary, I Love You, You Hate Me - streaming now on Peacock - I realized that I was not alone. I always thought that I was the only one who acknowledged the dark-purple Barney in the lore of the popular children’s dinosaur.
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