5/30/2023 0 Comments The woman upstairs rachel hawkins![]() ![]() That means rewriting it 100 times until it feels right, and at three in the morning, when you get up for a wee, going: “Oh, actually, that line would be better if it was like this.” Some students told me they had a party where they only ate things mentioned in the show – stuff like hamburger pasta It’s a lot of work to make it sound like no work has gone into something. I was trying to find something more real. With Him & Her, I wanted to strip everything back to study people on a minute level. Comedy is a set of tropes and expectations – and funny is an emotional response. I called it anti-comedy at the time, and I still feel like that. ![]() There were lots of people who said, perhaps rightly, that its presence set the show back, because instead of being interpreted as an intimate, truthful examination of a couple, it became a show where a woman does a poo – and isn’t that shocking? Which was kind of the whole point. The poo Becky does in the pilot was the subject of much discussion. You shit and piss and stink and forget to flush the toilet and enjoy sex and eat too much and drink too much – we all do. In the first episode, I wanted to say to the audience: these people are you. ![]()
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