![]() But it’s really nice, for a change, to get to feel what it’s like when the power dynamic has been reversed and the boys are coming in to play the husbands, the boyfriends, and the guest stars. I’ve had many, many years of wonderful experiences on very male-dominated sets. Was it fun to have such an awesome group of women on this? I love this bad-ass team of women because they’re just so much fun to watch. You can just sit there, listen and feel your heart drop into your stomach, and the job is done. You don’t really have to dig deep to find the appropriate reaction for that dialogue. Basically, she did most of the work for me, Lydia and Rebecca, the little office trio. Sophie is extraordinarily talented, which I knew already, but she’s so sweet and nice, and then she morphs into Caroline and she’s terrifying. It was almost criminal, how fun those scenes were, where she’s just slicing us up, like she’s a scalpel, with such disdain, control and poise. When you were figuring out who this woman was and how you wanted to play her, did you not find it necessary to look at specific publicists that you had heard about? Did you look more at professional women, in general? ![]() I don’t have a lot of first-hand experience with that and that side of it, but I’ve certainly seen it in the periphery. For everything that appears in a gossip magazine, I’m sure there was a whole herd of people trying to make sure that it didn’t happen. ![]() ![]() There are plenty of us, like myself, who exist in the public eye, and go to work, do our jobs, promote our work, and don’t really require a scandal fixer, but I absolutely believe and know that these people do exist. PAQUIN: I think this is a fair representation of aspects of that world. Do you feel like this is a fair representation of that world and that there are people actually like this, or does this feel like a very heightened version? This show is fun because it gives viewers a look into the cutthroat world of celebrity PR, and it’s really, really cutthroat. It all went very, very quickly, once we put the life back into it, and that was very exciting. I can’t actually remember, off the top of my head, exactly what the timeframe was, but it was only three or four months of trying to take another step at getting it set up, until we were in production, and prepping and shooting. That’s fine, but it’s so exciting when you find material where you’re just really excited about the words on the page, and this one was very much the one that we weren’t willing to just let go of. They’re the actual building blocks of entertainment, but so often, things get written as you go. I know this probably sounds crazy, but so many projects go into production without great scripts. They didn’t pick it up, and then it just went onto the shelf and we moved on to do other things, but it was always that one thing where the writing was just so good and that’s so rare. PAQUIN: We started developing it a while ago, we got a deal over at HBO, and we worked on it there for awhile. We just went through and updated the show with contemporary media. For example, you can’t have people getting a text saying, “Oh, hey, this happened,” because now they just get a Google alert. But as far as the overall arcs, themes, ideas and storylines, those pretty much stayed as they were. The way that news is consumed and processed, with the internet and social media, has changed a lot of different logistics of what a PR job entails. PAQUIN: There were things that needed to change. Was there anything that changed, in those five years, or did it pretty much stay what you first read? It’s intense, dark and funny, and it sets the tone of the show very quickly. The opening scene of the first episode pretty much had me, from the get-go. ANNA PAQUIN: The project came to me and our company about five years ago, and there were already two or three scripts written, and the entire plot of the series was arced out already, so the character was very well developed.
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