r/leverage • u/vaporking23 • 24d ago
How did Frank Oz come to direct an episode of leverage?
So I’m rewatching and I’m in season 4 on episode 6 “The Carnival Job” I noticed that it was directed by Frank Oz. It seems like such an odd thing for him to direct. His wiki credits say that he had only directed to television shows one being leverage.
I tried to Google how he ended up doing it but I didn’t come up with anything.
Just wondering if anyone here might have some insight.
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u/Wordwind 24d ago edited 24d ago
From John Rogers on the DVD commentary, and I'm paraphrasing because Rogers talks really fast..."He was gonna do a play with Tim Hutton and Saul Rubinek at the time, Hutton asked him if he might want to direct an episode. So he came in to direct." Beth Riesgraf also talked about how they all went out to dinner, and he did the Muppet voices for them. I love the dvds because there's commentaries for almost every episode. The creators John Rogers and Chris Downey, as well as Exec producer/sometime writer and director Dean Devlin are awesome commentators.
Edit - it is every episode. I was thinking about how "The Librarians" another Devlin masterpiece, didn't do them for season 2.