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tangerine · Wysłany: Wto 11:09, 23 Mar 2010 Temat postu: Wywiady i artykuły

tangerine · Wysłany: Wto 18:44, 23 Mar 2010 Temat postu:

Wywiad z Nancy Miller (scenarzystką), przeprowadzony przed emisją 3-go sezonu:

Here are the answers to your questions for “Saving Grace” creator-showrunner Nancy Miller.

“Saving Grace” begins its third season on TNT next Tuesday, June 16.

It's the fourth series created by veteran TV producer-writer Miller, who — like Grace — is from Oklahoma.
Previously she was executive producer-creator of “Leaving L.A.” (starring Christopher Meloni, Melina Kanakaredes and Hilary Swank) and Lifetime’s Annie Potts starrer “Any Day Now.” She also created and produced “The Round Table,” which starred the fabulous Jessica Walter and aired on NBC in the early ’90s.

She’s served as co-executive producer TNT’s “The Closer” and NBC’s “The Profiler.” Other shows she’s worked on include “Threat Matrix,” “The Monroes” and “Against the Grain.”

NancyMiller (pictured at right) answered all the questions asked. She chose as her favorite the question from Sue Claire, about writing strong female leads. Sue, your DVD is on its way!

Thanks to all of you for participating and thanks to Nancy for her great answers. Enjoy season 3!

Q. You have been creatively involved with TV series with female lead characters, such as "Saving Grace" and male leading characters. Is there a difference in the presentation, writing or other aspects of the creative process in the two types of shows? (Sue Claire)
A. There isn’t really a difference. Although everyone tells me that I create men who are too romantic. My answer is that I create men the way they should be! Man or woman, an actor is an actor. So working-wise, the experience is different but very much the same. Probably like any job, guys and girls have different ways of expressing themselves but we all want the same thing — to be loved.

Q. I am amazed by this character, except she was on the OTHER side of the law. I have lived in OKC. I know this character, and it’s uncanny how Hunter portrays her. How did you research or derive this character? (T. Bell) Grace
A. I lived through my 20's! Grace, and all the characters I create are portions of myself, my friends, people that I know, articles I have read, etc. It sort of goes into my brain as mush and comes out in some form of a character. All characters on shows continue to evolve and change just like we do. I also have a brilliant staff of writers that come up with ideas, and of course Holly has taken Grace to a whole higher level.

Q. Can you describe your feelings over landing an Oscar winner for “Saving Grace”?
A. I was, and still am, in disbelief. I am still looking for the punk to be revealed. I also feel very thankful and am even a little proud.

Q. Would you ever consider a spinoff? The characters are all very rich! (Annette)
A. Ummm...let me think....YES! I would be delighted.

Q. First, I loved that you showed the terror of a character facing their own state sanctioned murder. My question is; What kind of double standards have you encountered with standards and practices? (Casey)
A. Standards & Practices operate on a different level than us creative folk. Their job is much different and they have to think of things that I don't think of. I just have to think about what is true to the story I am telling. They have a very difficult job, especially with a show like ours that is constantly pushing the edges. TNT's Standards and Practices has been wonderful to work with, and trust me, I have been on other shows where that wasn't the case! Gracecop

Q. I love how Grace’s smoking, boozing, & all around sexiness stands out against her historical background — the OKC bombing, child molestation, rape — all that rage & pain — how does she manage to stay so funny & empathic? Thank you for many hours of great TV. (Arlene)
A. I think our greatest moments of humor often come from our deepest pain. And being one who has experienced pain like Grace has, she knows what that feels like, and she doesn't like anybody to have to feel what she felt. Also, being a cop, if you can't laugh, you will curl up in a ball and die from what you see on the job every day. So that dark humor Grace has comes from that place; the place of God, I have to laugh or I will cry and never be able to stop.

Q. Holly Hunter's character smokes, drinks and sleeps around...all to excess and is very tough on her family sometimes. What do you, as a writer, do to keep her character likable? (TV Watcher)
A. It is very easy for me to keep Grace likable. I love Grace. I understand her. I’ve never met anyone perfect in my life, so I am never trying to meet that standard. Grace has so many qualities to love, so many aspects that I admire. I know if I ever needed a cop, or a friend, I would hope I could find someone half as dedicated and loyal as Grace.

Q. What would you say is Grace's worst trait and her best?
A. I think Grace’s worst trait is that she sleeps with married men. Her best traits are her humor, loyalty and her utter joy of white-hot living.

Q. I like the portrayal of the friendship between Grace Hanadarko and her friend as played by Laura San Giacomo. How do you think this adds to the dynamic of the show? (Sue)
A. I think it makes it more real. TV shows rarely show friendships between women. I have a lot of great friends and we have a blast together, so I wanted to portray what I know in my own life. I have a friend like Rhetta, and we have known each other since 4th grade. A lot of the Catholic school stuff is some of the trouble my friend Mary and I used to get into!

Q. What inspired you to write a show with such strong religious overtones? (Jean)
A. I wanted to explore God. With my last series (“Any Day Now”), I explored race. And I like to take these taboo subjects and have fun with them, do them with an edge. I have to write about something that has meaning.

Q. Is the show in other countries yet? (Annette)
A. Yes, it airs in over 200 countries including France, India, Australia, Mexico and Italy.

Q. Did you always intend for this to be a cable show or did you try to sell it to broadcast networks? How would the show have to change on broadcast TV? (Kathy)
A. It could never be on network, not the way Holly and I want to do it. I never pitched it to the networks because it would have had to completely change and soften into something that would no longer interest me.

Q. Besides Grace, who is your favorite character to write for and why?
A. This sounds like a copout, but I really enjoy writing for each of the characters and these actors. It may surprise you, but Earl is the toughest. How do you write an angel?! Without making the stuff coming out of his mouth sound sanctimonious? So although I love writing for Earl, and for Leon, those scenes take the longest.

Q. What shows inspired you as a young writer or even before you became a writer?
A. I was a TV junkie and still am. I love TV. I hate a lot of the shows that are on but TV is so powerful. I watched “The Patty Duke Show,” “The Flying Nun,” “Bonanza,” all those shows growing up as a kid. Today I enjoy “Weeds,” “Rescue Me” and “The Shield,” which was a great show.

Q. What literary works do you look to for inspiration?
A. All the Southern authors.

Q. If you had the opportunity to go back to rewrite one particular storyline or scene which one would you choose and why?
A. Oh, man, great question. I know there are many but right now it's tough to think of one. Actually the one scene that comes to my mind is not from Saving Grace but another one of my pilots.

tangerine · Wysłany: Czw 19:20, 25 Mar 2010 Temat postu:

Wywiad z Holly Hunter z 25.03.2010:

Saving Grace returns for its fourth and final season with nine new episodes, starting this Monday, March 29 at 10pm ET/PT on TNT. The season premiere picks up with the aftermath of Grace and an informant surviving a fall from a 12-story building.

TV Tango recently took part in a Q&A conference call with star Holly Hunter. The Academy-Award and Emmy-Award-winning actress had the chance to talk about her experiences on the program, spirituality, and her choices in music for the series.

Question: What would you like people to remember about Saving Grace?

Holly Hunter: What they will. I mean, I think people can take away very different things from this woman. I really kind of felt like I wanted to conduct my own exploration of her and I guess the thing that I wanted to do was ask questions that were interesting.

Ask questions of myself, ask questions of the audience. I didn't really want to provide people with answers.

Question: Are we ever going to get a final resolution on Earl? However if there's no answers, how can we?

Holly Hunter: Are we ever going to get a final resolution? When I say answers, I think I mean not messages. I really was interested in the show always kind of being a question but never like this is a message that we want to send out to you about the meaning of anything. I really wanted to bring this portrait of a woman who's a little deep inside herself, of a person who is slightly uncivilized who has a wildness that ultimately governs her.

And the wildness in her governs her love. And then as we've seen there - Grace has learned consequences of how she loves, and that's been interesting for me to kind of explore how she loves Rhetta, how she loves Ham.

But what one person wants another person may not want and then you have to deal with the consequences of that.

Question: You and Laura San Giacomo have such a bond together because you play these life-long friends. Was it something that you guys had to spend time developing or was there an instant rapport, chemistry, between the two of you?

Holly Hunter: There was an instant rapport. I mean, that's just real lucky. We got lucky that way because it's true. As soon as we started shooting in the editing room we found that what could really work best with Laura with me was two shot. A shot that held both characters in the same frame because it's like you just wanted them to be together in the same frame.

You physically wanted to see these two women being held by a single frame instead of going into close-ups and that was something that I think Laura and I just had the great good fortune of having. We just had it.

Question: You've made us fall in love with a woman, love her, hate her, want to be like her, everything. We love everything about Grace but why the decision to end it now? I mean, this is the kind of show that I could watch for ten seasons. I don't know if you could do it for ten seasons but why the decision now?

Holly Hunter: Well, that was not a decision of mine that was a decision of other people. So, that was governed by money really and I didn't have a lot to do with the money aspect of the show. Like nothing to do with the money aspect.

So having said that, there's a beauty to having a finite thing to Grace and I actually always felt that from the beginning. I wanted it to be a freight train that was running towards a destination that was coming quickly. We were hurdling towards this destiny through this woman Grace and I always talk about that sense of urgency and that sense that it was like a runaway train and we were on it.

And so when we got the news coming down the pike that Grace was being canceled there was a poetry about having an end because then the freight train could really go right towards that stopping place.

I know that may not satisfy you but...

Question: What is your fondest memory from this whole experience making Saving Grace?

Holly Hunter: You know, I have so many. There have been so many moments that I've just adored -- some filmed and some not. You know, some things that happened in between takes, some things that happened with the crew because we had a lot of the same crew like not from the very beginning but we did have some people that where there from the pilot on.

When you spend this many hours a week working with the same people -- I mean, television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.

And so there's so many moments that I treasure from Saving Grace that I can never line them up even under like my top ten list.

Question: Crying one minute, laughing the next, working women, doing it all, authoritative but sensitive, a daughter, a mother. Are you finding now that at this stage in your life you're drawn even more to strong characters like that and do you also see the similarity in Jane [from Broadcast News] and Grace?

Holly Hunter: Well, there are similarities in Jane and Grace, but there's an untamed aspect in Grace. Grace is more evolved, in a way, than Jane. I mean, Jane fit into the world. She really did fit into the world and I feel that Grace is a loner who is in a position of confronting something that she doesn't necessarily want to confront and doesn't understand.

But I think that Grace is further along the line of being an uncivilized person than Jane Craig. But in terms of what I'm drawn towards now, I don't know. I came upon Grace, Grace came upon me unexpectedly. I was not looking for - I didn't realize I was looking for this character but I could not say no to her. I thought she was just an absolutely irresistible person to me and wanted to play her right away.

And so, yeah, I don't know what I'm looking for next but right now I'm looking for nothing. I'm looking for rest and to relax away from the workplace. So that's definitely what's next for me is just too kind of really ease out and take a real break from performing.

Question: What did you learn from Grace unexpectedly as playing the character? Did you learn anything that you never thought you would learn?

Holly Hunter: I learned so much about the process of being Grace in all the ways that I was involved. That was a very rich learning experience was how to be involved with bringing Grace to audiences creatively. Not in any other way but the creative aspect through producing, being an executive producer that was very involving, very exciting and I learned tremendous amounts that I could never have learned in such a short period of time except for Grace.

But I found the character, the subversive edge of Grace was something that I had always felt drawn towards and I admire. For example, the scene where she allows herself to be beaten up in this woman's room at a bar. She allows the shit to just get beaten out of her by this chick who's really mad.

I thought the subversivness in that was so enticing to me, because I felt that in getting beat up Grace got liberated as well. I mean, it was like she got taken to the edge of mortality and in there she found the kind of freedom and that is truly subversive and flirty with things that most people don't flirt with.

And that's the definition of Grace that I most love was that she liked to go places where people only fantasize about going. You go see a boxing match because there are two men in the ring putting their lives on the line literally and you pay to watch and they're living in a place where you can flirt with living but you don't live there and that's what I loved about Grace.

Question: The show tackled such provocative senses like faith and religion. Did being on the show influence your spiritual life?

Holly Hunter: Well, to a degree. I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize as ourselves so that we can see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.

And so storytelling - you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.

And so I think Grace reinforced that for me because I had to answer why I was doing it often because it was very difficult. It's been a very difficult thing to do in terms of hours and in terms of commitment, personal commitment. And I was very personally committed.

So that, I think, grew in me as - so I think it reinforced me as a person with a certain kind of spirituality.

Question: Was there anything about the character of Grace that you felt most strongly related to in playing this role now that you're wrapping it up?

Holly Hunter: Gosh. Well, I think it would be hard to say. I bring all of myself to Grace but I bring all of myself to every character that I've ever played whether she was an arsonist or a Texas cheerleader murdering mom or a TV broadcast journalist, news producer, or a mute Scottish bride.

So I don't know, they all come from me or my imagination.

Question: There is the scene I remember very vividly in the show where Grace goes home first and puts on the uniform to go to a funeral. And you made such a strong transformation when you put on that uniform even down to having the hair polished and everything, did you put a lot of effort personally into sort of prepping for that day? I think it relates to what we do as women every single day getting ready to brave the world.

Holly Hunter: Well, actually, I've thought about that scene a lot, a whole lot, because I guess most importantly for me I wanted the music to be great under that scene. I wanted to be transported by the music and that was Anthony and the Johnsons. That was a song that I found.

Doing Saving Grace was another great outlet for me to choose music, so I got to choose a lot of the music for the show. Any outside composers that we brought in, outside artists, they were - not always, but they were often singers that I really responded to. And he was one of them and I thought that there was something so gorgeous about that song and so expressing the end of life that - and Grace thinks about the end of life a lot and that was what she was there to glorify, was a fellow police officer who lost his life in the line of duty.

And she wanted to bring glory to him and to her own line of work which is really a work of service that Grace feels she serves people through her job and that that is the greatest glory that a police officer can give to a community is to perform that service of offering protection.

So, I think I just wanted to bring something holy to the work that cops do. And the reason why Grace Hanadarko chose to be a cop is for that singular reason.

Question: Did you spend a lot of time with other police officers doing ride-arounds and things like that? And what kind of reaction have you gotten from actual police officers if any?

Holly Hunter: Well, I spent some time with the Oklahoma City Police Department on a number of occasions and they - from giving me moves just physically opportunistic moves, moves of offense, of defense, I took shooting lessons, went to driving lessons, road around with them and it was, of course, humbling. It's a job that requires things that I only have in my imagination but that I don't have.
And it inspires a good amount of ah to see what they encounter and what they confront and what they want to confront. These are people that want - they seek trouble out. They go - when everybody else is running away they're running towards an that's an interesting impulse for people to have and I thought that it totally embodied Grace because Grace is seeking out chaos and feels at home in it. It's just that Grace feels that way in her personal life as well as her professional life, and I can't say that for all cops.

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PREMIERES: Saving Grace's fourth and final season starts on March 29, with back-to-back episodes beginning at 9pm on TNT. On April 5, the show returns to its normal Mondays-at-10pm time slot.

WHY YOU MIGHT LIKE IT: Somebody at TNT said, "You know what would be cool? A detective who's a hard-drinking, fearless Lothario… but we make her a WOMAN!" And, guess what, it turned out pretty well—thanks largely to the fascinating and complicated circumstances of the title character's life and the fascinating and complicated performance of the preternaturally fit Holly Hunter, looking better with a badge than she did while Raising Arizona 20 years ago (and we should know, because we see her running around naked a lot). Plus, Grace's mom is played by the comically impeccable Jessica Walter, who's also graced us with her maternal brilliance as the Bluth family matriarch on Arrested Development and as Archer's mom on the animated FX series Archer.

WHY YOU MIGHT HATE IT: Somebody at TNT said, "You know what would be cool? A detective who's a hard-drinking, fearless Lothario...but we make her a WOMAN!" Because, let's face it, a cop show with a hard-drinking, fearless Lothario just ain't a big surprise, no matter how tight her jeans are. The show is also getting a little religion-y, with fewer drunken sex scenes and more people going all awe-struck and slack-jawed over wondrous things.

THE PREMISE: It's a standard cop show, no doubt about it, with murders for our heroes to solve. But not only (as mentioned before) is the sleeping around, heavy drinking, and generally wild living done by a woman, but that woman's got a rumpled, gray-haired guardian angel—really a guardian angel, like from God—who looks as though he should be playing banjo in a retired-guys' bluegrass band. He appears to her at various moments and seems to be insinuating that Grace has some higher purpose than knocking back the brewskis.

It all started like this: Det. Grace Hanadarko of Oklahoma City was bad-behaving her way through life when she drove drunk and accidentally hit and killed a man. An angel named Earl appeared, brought the guy back to life, and gave Grace a second chance. But a second chance at what we don't quite know except that Earl keeps saying "God has a plan," and also "It's always your choice," which seem to be contradictory. But the gist appears to be that Grace is supposed to maybe find God—though if He's really missing, or why Grace merits this kind of attention, isn't clear.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Partners Ham and Grace have a steamy, consummated on-again, off-again affair whether Ham is married or not, as he is occasionally. Rhetta, played by Laura San Giacomo, is Grace's childhood friend and works in the same station as a forensics investigator. Grace had a dark childhood of (gradually revealed) abuse, and has a complicated relationship with her family that centers partly on the death of her sister in the Oklahoma City bombing. Earl has big white wings that he can flash at will, and nobody knows about him except Grace, Rhetta, and Grace's brother, a priest. Oh, and the latest plot point seems to revolve around Earl (or God, it's not clear) maneuvering Grace into the life of a woman named Neely who Earl is also guardian-angeling.

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Recenzja seriali TNT: Saving Grace i The Closer

Kyra Sedgwick and Holly Hunter are both up for Emmys for their roles on the TNT dramas The Closer and Saving Grace, respectively, and their characters bear similarities on the surface: They're both opinionated Southern cops who doff their shirts with McConaughey-esque regularity, revealing buff bellies and toned arms. They each solve mysteries with Matlock-esque ease — in this second season, Grace caught a killer thanks to an old Bananarama song. And they're each evolving. In the case of the LAPD's Brenda Johnson (Sedgwick), it's a slow, small evolution — in season 4, she may finally marry her beau (Jon Tenney) and give up sweets. In the case of Hunter's Grace Hanadarko, it's more cosmic: The Oklahoma City detective may learn why her ''last chance'' guardian angel (Leon Rippy) wants her to look into the case of a death-row inmate (Bokeem Woodbine).

Oddly, Saving Grace is by far the more genuine of the two dramas (and just to recap, it involves a novelty-T-shirt-wearing angel). Grace looks real: The bars are dirty, the cars are draped in American flags. Gracesounds real: The dialogue bumps along with profanity and wisecracks. Most importantly, Grace is real: Hunter plays her with a stunning mix of wired urgency and cackling ease. The Oscar winner dominates every scene, whether she's guzzling a beer like it will keep her from combusting, or lustily banging her partner (The Shield's Kenny Johnson, in a deserved lead role) in a bathroom stall. Grace's mystical story line is handily overshadowed by Grace herself — drinking and smoking herself to death, skirting redemption. Grace drops us right into the addict's brain: All the detective's boozy shenanigans look like great fun as she's doing them — and like total blunders the morning after. It's a clever, believable seesaw that Hunter rides brilliantly.

The Closer, an inexplicable ratings juggernaut, is nowhere near as good. No one has bothered to develop Sedgwick's Johnson past an outline: ''a woman whose Southern ayk-sint makes everything she says either sassy or funny.'' Sedgwick tries hard to fill the gaps, veering from a girlish, wide-eyed neurotic to the snip-snappy cadence of an old biddy. Her expressions are so exaggerated, she often looks like she's trying to amuse an infant just off camera. Sedgwick has given lovely, subtle performances before (The Woodsman comes to mind), so one assumes she's consciously playing Brenda in this bouncy manner to fit a show that wedges in wacky comedy between murders. Her Brenda is not inappropriate. She's just not quite real. B+

Gillian Flynn

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Thought's on Hear the Birds ~TNT
By Michael Arkof

Earl s charge in this world is to convince a select few to experience and accept God s grace. Most of the time he succeeds, but in this episode, he fails.

Travis Gabriel, one of Earl s charges, takes his own life after finding out his wife was murdered. Travis pain was so profound he could not see God s love. Blinded by anger at God, and at Earl, he felt there was nothing left but a warm gun. And how terrible must it be for Earl? Here s a divine being sent directly from God s house with one job, to electrify our lives with beauty. He has the damn wings, how can he fail?!

Perhaps it s not as easy as we think. When bad things happen we scream, There is no God! or murmur, He works in mysterious ways. Chalk it up to God, or not. But what happens when you know God exists? What happens if an angel comes down, wraps you in his wings, shows you God s majesty, and you truly know one-hundred percent that He exists, and yet you keep seeing destruction around you? Well, now you have different questions for God. You no longer ask are you listening. Now you ask, are you good? Because now I no longer simply believe in your existence, and I no longer only have faith that you hear me. I now know that you hear me. I KNOW! So why are you allowing this pain?

And let me clarify here, Why, God, why? is asked by millions daily. But it is not the same as Travis or Grace asking that question. Not to say that our character s pain is greater than the rest of the worlds , but understand that they no longer see God as an amorphous deity. They speak to his messenger daily. He s a friend. To them, God is humanized, and the anger is much more personalized. So they ask, God, if you have this direct connection to my life, if you have made this effort to invite me into your world, why would you allow such pain to encompass me? I know you re there!

I think perhaps the wings Earl carries and the divinity he proclaims can only be a hindrance when a human knows God exists, consequently expects God s grace, but receives only pain. I m no Mother Theresa, I d be angry too. Because he s your best friend and he betrayed you. He has all the power in the world, and he used it mercilessly. Well now, you wanna take something away from God in return. But since he controls everything, the fight s not fair. What can you do? So you remember back to that one sunny day when he gave you something to have complete control over your free will. And that free will is really divine isn t it? Because with it you can do anything, you can be anyone. Or so you thought. Now you re thinking, what kind of free will is this when there s nothing but pain surrounding me? The divine free will was a tease, just a smidgen of something He has and I will never attain. Well that s fine. I don t need it. I only need as much as I was given to pay him back, to take away my free will completely, to take away my life. And so, with that mindset, Travis ended it.

I think Earl understands Travis anger, because even he himself doesn t know if Travis is ok. He hopes he is. Perhaps this is why God s omnipotent power needs to come hand in hand with his unconditional forgiveness. He has the ability to take away everything we love, so he better have the ability to forgive us when we retaliate. Would it comfort you to know one-hundred percent that God exists, or would you rather keep it on faith? Would you be ready for the truth?

[Wpis z oficjalnego serialowego bloga]

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Wywiad z Holly Hunter nt. serialu:

P: Jakie jest przesłanie serialu "Ocalić Grace"?
O: Według mnie "Ocalić Grace" mówi o zmaganiach kobiety. O konflikcie, który ma początek w niej samej, a potem zostaje uzewnętrzniony. Myślę, że ten film można by zatytułować "Zmagania Grace", ponieważ sprowadza się właśnie do czystego konfliktu.

P: Co wyróżnia ten serial wśród innych kryminałów obyczajowych?
O: Grace różni się od innych detektywów z telewizyjnych seriali ze względu na więź jaką tworzy z widzami. Jest to serial kryminalny, ale uważam, że kluczowe przesłanie związane jest z poznaniem prawdziwej osobowości Grace. Moim zdaniem jest ona kobietą, bardzo bliską realiów prawdziwego życia. Często w serialach policyjnych widzowie razem z bohaterami prowadzą śledztwo w związku z przestępstwem, ale w przypadku Grace chodzi raczej o dogłębne prześledzenie jej osobowości, aniżeli tego co robi. Uważam, że jest policjantką, ale jej postać stwarza także poczucie bliskości. Jej wady są niesamowite, ponieważ są dostrzegalne dla innych, a jej podejście do tych wad jest jakby napawaniem się nimi. Właśnie to moim zdaniem wyróżnia tę postać.

P: Na czym polega dramat w serialu "Ocalić Grace"?
O: U podstaw dramatyzmu w serialu "Ocalić Grace" stoi walka pomiędzy wiarą a istotą człowieczeństwa. Dramatyzm zawsze wiąże się z jakimś konfliktem, a konflikt albo pochodzi z wewnątrz albo z zewnątrz. Ten serial różni się od innych, ponieważ konflikt manifestuje się zarówno wewnętrznie, jak i zewnętrznie.

P: Kim jest Grace Hanadarko i dlaczego widzowie ją uwielbiają?
O: Widzowie doceniają ludzki charakter Grace. Prawdziwie ludzki charakter, który nie często można odnaleźć na ekranie. Charakter nieco mroczny, którego przedstawienie na ekranie jest bardzo ważne, ponieważ w każdym z nas kryje się trochę mroku. U niektórych mroczne oblicze jest bardziej uśpione niż u innych, ale u Grace jest ono jak najbardziej żywe. Grace to według mnie kobieta o bardzo prostej konstrukcji, a tym samym bardzo naturalna. Postępuje jak siły natury, co mnie naprawdę pobudza. Nie oceniam jej. Jest dla mnie po prostu nie do odparcia.

P: Co sprawiło, że przyjęłaś rolę Grace?
O: Wydaje mi się, że jednym z powodów dla którego odgrywanie tej roli sprawia mi tyle radości jest fakt, iż Grace to postać kompleksowa. Nie jest ocenzurowanym fragmentem osobowości, ale całością ze swoimi wadami i zaletami. Poza tym jest to fajna rola, ponieważ rzadko trafia się możliwość grania kobiety w tym wieku i postaci zawierającej w sobie aż tyle zawiłości. Gdy po raz pierwszy przeglądałam scenariusz, już po przeczytaniu drugiej strony byłam naprawdę zafascynowana. Zanim doszłam do strony 15 zadzwoniłam do swojego agenta ze słowami "Stary czy to naprawdę ta rola?". Według mnie Grace jest jakby trochę nierealna, jest jak twór wyobraźni i uważam, że podobnie odbiera ją większość widzów. Robi rzeczy, o których większość z nas marzy, a których nie robimy. Robi także rzeczy koszmarne.

P: Dlaczego Grace jest tak świetnym detektywem?
O: Uważam, że osobiste demony prześladujące Grace są przydatne w wykonywanej przez nią pracy. Jako gliniarz ma ogromną wiarygodność na ulicy. Zazwyczaj działa instynktownie i pod wpływem impulsu. Uważam, że wiele osób popełniających przestępstwa tak właśnie działa. Idealnie pasuje do swojej pracy, ponieważ wie jak myślą przestępcy. Sądzę też, że Grace zmaga się z kwestią zaufania, ponieważ ukształtowała swoje życie w taki sposób, że tak naprawdę nikomu nie ufa. Zawsze spodziewa się najgorszego. Może ma nadzieję na coś lepszego, ale realnie spodziewa się najgorszego. Myślę, że tak właśnie powinien działać dobry gliniarz.

P: Jaki jest związek Grace z Earlem – jej aniołem ostatniej szansy?
O: Związek Grace z aniołem Earlem jest fascynujący i rozgrywa się na wielu płaszczyznach. Earl jest w tym filmie absolutnie kluczowy, ponieważ jest źródłem zewnętrznego konfliktu Grace. Konfrontuje bohaterkę z koncepcją wiary, w sytuacji gdy jej życie jest całkiem pozbawione wiary. Uważam, że relacja z nim jest zabawna, ponieważ Earl zmaga się z samym sobą. Jest w nim wiele tajemnic, które zawsze fascynują Grace, aczkolwiek traktuje je jako zagrożenie. Moim zdaniem Grace i Earl są postaciami, które utrzymują się wzajemnie w równowadze.

Źródło: foxlife

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HOLLY HUNTER O NAJNOWSZYM SEZONIE SG:

It's the final season for Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter) and last chance angel Earl (Leon Rippy) on Saving Grace. After a 12-story fall that left her with nary a scratch on last season's closer, Grace starts to contemplate the purpose of her life and its potential divine purpose.

Saving Grace is airing its last nine episodes beginning in the March 29 opener as its fourth and final season. Despite high ratings, the TNT series was canceled in August last year on account of disappointing overseas and DVD sales. TNT had originally ordered a split 15-episode third season.

After airing three episodes, Saving Grace is taking a month and a half break, set to return on May 24 with its final six episodes.

The season 3 fall, Hunter tells TV Guide, puts Grace in a "brand-new terrain with questions that have now become demands."

"Grace answers those demands in a really kind of an extreme way, which is how she normally confronts issues. Grace really goes on a journey, in many ways very much alone. The singularity of her journey very much takes shape in this last season."

The journey on the opener took Grace to church in one of the episode's most memorable scenes.

Says Saving Grace creator and executive producer Nancy Miller, the last season is all about whether Grace will follow Earl's advice.

"The entire series, in a way, has been a love story between Grace and Earl, and that love story plays out and deepens," she says. "We find out even more of Earl's limitations. He is a messenger for God, humans have free will and there's only so much that he can do for Grace."

Źródło: BuddyTV

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