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My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples’ ideas of what character should be.

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Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

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You have to create characters – certainly in series TV – who people engage with. They don’t have to be nice; you don’t have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

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May 14, 2024

You have to create characters – certainly in series TV – who people engage with. They don’t have to be nice; you don’t have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

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May 14, 2024

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

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