Taking the central role, Galifianakis plays a clown school dropout, who has moved back home, and now spends his time trying to one up his twin brother as they vie for their mother’s attention. While essentially a comedy, Baskets is at times quite dramatic and bleak. In fact, like all good comedy, it borders so close on being a tragedy that sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between the two, Galifiankis acknowledges that it’s not to everyone’s tastes, but for him as an actor, he wanted to move into more dramatic roles.
“The Hangover movies were — it was a really wonderful time. But that’s a character. That Alan guy was a big, big, loud, dumb character. Dumb I can do. Not to sound too pretentious or actor-y, but you want to kind of challenge yourself. As a comic — as a fat, bearded comic — you can paint yourself into a corner. And this town wants to do that because it’s a copycat business. The entertainment business is very copycat. And you can do that for a few years, rely on that, but then, you know, if you want a longer career you try to change things up as much as you’re allowed to.”
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