‘The Detour’: Natalie Zea Got Advice from David Duchovny on Making Her Directorial Debut (Inside a Fat Suit)

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “The Detour” Season 3 Episode 4, “The Goal.”]The first scene that Natalie Zea ever directed for TV was the restaurant karaoke sequence from Tuesday night’s episode of “The Detour.” If two Broadway vets (Laura Benanti and Gideon Glick) singing “Almost Paradise” to Jason Jones’ Nate sounds like a tame scene description, know that it would still probably be one of the wildest scenes on most other TV comedies.

For Zea, it was far from a simple first assignment (and not just because of the 360-degree camera move at the end when Nate and Zea’s character Robin reunite).“That was my first scene that I directed.

I was awful,” Zea told IndieWire with a laugh.

“You have a lot to prove.

It was feelings that I haven’t felt in a while.

I’ve been acting for 20 years and when I walk onto a set, even when it’s a new show,

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