![]() 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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