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He was always closed off and wouldnt talk to people, says director Frank Oz.
I still wouldnt be able to say, like, Well therealSteve … says frequentco-star Tina Fey.
Then it complicates this narrative with a curveball.
Steve has changed more than any other person I know, says writer and friend Adam Gopnik.
WhereSteve!is most successful is in highlighting the depth of this transformation.
How did I go from riddled with anxiety in my 30s to 75 and really happy?
Do you have a melancholy inside you?
Martin asks Jerry Seinfeld in conversation at one point.
Quite often, Seinfeld replies.
Yeah, me too, continues Martin.
I had more melancholy younger.
Ive become nicer, kinder, more open.
Short agrees: Yeah, because for about 50 years there, you were a real prick.
Theres a moment at the beginning ofNowwhen the heavy neuroticism ofThentrickles in.
I have a whole new life now.
Not long after, this exercise is interrupted by an impromptu phone call from Short.
The documentary never returns to the tapes again.
