ROB MCELHENNEY: It was certainly our intention from the very beginning.
And we wanted to subvert some of those expectations.
And if you were a gamer or worked in that world, that it felt authentic.
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Charlotte, did your perception of the show change from the beginning?
CHARLOTTE NICDAO: There are two different things I think that changed in my perspective.
I need to do a bunch of research.
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But then I think that as we started shooting, I realized that it is a workplace comedy.
It does reach these really incredible heights.
Which makes it, I think a really exciting show to watch.
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What’s it been like engaging very directly with that topic?
It’s been something that’s really important to us and [co-creator and executive producer Megan Ganz].
We’ve made a concerted effort to address that both onscreen and off.
In very specific circumstances, that’s where the comedy can come, and also the drama.
And if I do it like this, I should maybe more thinking about it like that.
And so I’ve been really grateful to both Rob and Megan for giving us those opportunities.
This season, there was another breakout episode covering the backstory of C.W.
Rob, what was the thought process behind having that one big C.W.
episode, and then following it up with the William Hurt episode?
We just like experimenting and we recognize that when you do that, you trigger the risk of failing.
But if you’re not failing, then you’re not stretching and you’re not trying new things.
That seemed to go pretty well.
People responded really well to it.
And that’s why we did that second episode, which is also very different.
And that’s been the goal from day one.
What is it that excited you about taking that swing?
I mean, I remember reading that in the script and being like, “Wait, what?”
That was the intention.
That being said, is there a Season 3 percolating in your brains?
MCELHENNEY: No, not yet.
That’s only because I have to go do the other show.
But the problem is with writing is that you’re never free from it.
It’s always there, unless you might compartmentalize and stop those thoughts.
Mythic Questis streaming now on Apple TV+.
