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Director: Vampires vs. the Bronx. Oz Rodriguez is known for Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020), Creating Saturday Night Live (2016) and Funny or Die Presents... (2007).
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Mar 13, 2024 · Emmy-winning director Oz Rodriguez has written and directed video shorts since he got his start at Funny or Die. As a creative force in the sketch comedy world, Oz worked his way up to segment director and producer at SNL and has been with the show for nearly a decade.
Oct 24, 2023 · Screen Rant exclusively interviewed director Oz Rodriguez about his new Netflix show Neon. He discusses filming in Puerto Rico while making it feel like Miami and working with reggaeton superstars. Rodriguez also praises the cast and explains how they developed the chemistry to make their friendship feel lived in. Oz Rodriguez On Neon
- Bruno Mars Was A Huge Surprise
- The Sketch That Almost Went Horribly Wrong
- Rodriguez’s Creative Way to Fight For A Sketch
- “Kellywise” Was The Hardest Challenge For Every Department
Rodriguez counts Matt Damon, Emma Stone, and Emma Thompson as some of the best guest hosts he worked with last season, and two of his favorite bits he got to direct included the instantly iconic shorts “Best Christmas Ever” with Damon and “The Actress” featuring Stone. But Rodriguez says there was one host throughout his tenure that unexpectedly bl...
Creating SNL showed that sometimes a set is barely finished being built when the camera starts rolling, and Rodriguez says there has been more than one occasion where filming almost went awry. A full blizzard once happened during a shoot, but the worst was during a sketch parodying The Handmaid’s Tale, which Rodriguez and his team shot during a sto...
Competition is stiff to get your sketches to make the cut at SNL,and Rodriguez says in his first year 10-20% of what he shot didn’t make it. Later, he found a way to increase his chances of getting on the air, especially when working on more offbeat shorts that might not get picked at table reads on Wednesdays, and therefore not shot on Fridays. “W...
One of the most-talked-about shorts that Rodriguez has directed is 2017’s “Kellywise,” which stars McKinnon in a parody of the horror movie Itand its killer clown Pennywise. He says while a typical short asks a lot of one department, the taped sketch “was a challenge for every department,” as McKinnon went through four different looks: normal Kelly...
Director: Vampires vs. the Bronx. Oz Rodriguez is known for Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020), Creating Saturday Night Live (2016) and Funny or Die Presents... (2007).
Aug 11, 2023 · In Miguel Wants to Fight, Oz Rodriguez pays homage to action flicks of the past with a movie that discusses growing up and finding your own identity.
Aug 16, 2023 · Oz Rodriguez, director of Netflix’s Vampires vs. the Bronx, talks to Polygon about his new Hulu comedy, Miguel Wants to Fight, and how it got him into anime.
