Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe Eddy.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The cast and the crew ofThe Eddyare a very international bunch.
What were some of the unique challenges posed by that?
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JACK THORNE:Well, I’ve done it before.
I did it on a show calledLast Panthers.
So it was really fun.
But the actual process of working with everyone was such a joy.
What can you tell us about that?
We had a mix of different things.
The scenes were always the scenes.
So yeah, no, we were always trying to release people.
The story itself wasn’t improvised, but there was a lot of improvisation.
There was a collaboration between what the actors were doing on set and what was scripted.
Where they went in different ways, the scripts then had to respond to it.
But largely we fit within the template of what we were writing and what they were performing.
They won’t be just sort of a bass player who is stuck in the background playing bass.
It was a character who would take the lead and would control an entire hour of story.
Was it always supposed to be that way, or was that a byproduct of the improvisation you mentioned?
The important thing for me was that the character stories are answered.
The crime was never the focus of the show for me.
It was never a show about crime.
And that is in the show.
The crime plot, we didn’t ever want to feel like that dominated things.
And it just felt like it wasn’t true to the story we were telling.
It’s a very character-driven series.
And that, to me, is the whole point of the show.
These are people that communicate through music, they don’t communicate through long, long dialogue exchanges.
They communicate through the way that they play, and they support each other in that way.
Would you be open to doing a season 2?
Where we leave these characters is a really satisfying place for us.
And there is obviously more stories to tell, but equally we’re good with the story we told.
Do you feel like you know where the characters go?
Does Julie stay in Paris for a long time?
Do they nab the villain and get out from under him?
I hope Julie does stay in Paris, because I think it’s the best place for her.
You want the audience to answer that on their own.
Although the world is not quite at peace, [the characters] are at peace.
It’s not traditional, and none of the show is trying to be just traditional.
It’s that we were trying to tell it in a different way.
