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36 S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Another mixer I had the chance to speak with was Damian Canelos, a New York-based production mixer who worked on HBO's 35mm limited series, I Know This Much Is True. Joining us in the conversation was Antonio Arroyo, who did some work on the project as the Pro Tools operator. The workflow on this project differed from the sound workflow on An American Pickle in several ways. For starters, the director, Derek Cianfrance, had to deal with more twinning as the show's storyline follows a pair of twin brothers through several life stages and shows the brothers together as young boys (actual twins played by Donni and Rocco Masihi), as college-aged men (played by Philip Ettinger), and as adults (played by Mark Ruffalo). When working with Philip Ettinger, who played the college-aged twins, the production would film the A-side and then change the cast over to film the B-side, often on the same day. In addition to another set of twins to create for the show, Mark Ruffalo's character had a six-week off- set transformation to go through in order to put on a significant amount of body weight and come back to set to play the other brother. This six-week gap meant that camera and lighting positions, again, had to be carefully noted and recreated in order to return to the scenes. When the B-side was shot, Damian's team, which always had a Pro Tools operator present on twin days, would use Pro Tools to edit and feed the A-side of the preferred take lines to Mark Ruffalo via either an Earwig or a loud speaker. The old B-side lines present in the playback material would be muted so that Mark could perform the B-side live and reference the A-side in his ear. One especially complicated sequence appeared during the first episode when there was a long scene in a traveling police cruiser. There was an officer driving and an officer in the rear passenger seat, both the front passenger seat and rear driver seat of the car were occupied by characters played by Mark Ruffalo. To pull this setup off, the Pro Tools operator at the time, Spyros Poulos, set up an iPad with pre-recorded B-side lines edited into individual cues loaded on it and gave it to the director to play the B-side cues while the process trailer was in motion filming the A-side. The director, Derek Cianfrance, would trigger Mark's B-side dialogue off the iPad to the cast in the (L-R) Boom op Jansen Lambie, Pro Tools operator Antonio Arroyo, and production mixer Damian Canelos Mark Ruffalo and Mark Ruffalo