以下是采访原文,有兴趣的可以阅读。 Variety: Now that the WGA strike is over, what's the status on your upcoming series starring Rhea Seehorn? Gilligan: We're back to work. We're officially back in the writers' room on Monday. I'm spending most of my time in New Mexico, because I live here now. But when I go back [to Los Angeles], we're going to reopen the writers' room for the first couple of weeks in person. When the strike hit, we were very close to the end of breaking the first season. So we're going to go back and finish the second-to-last episode and then get to work on the last episode. We lost a lot of momentum, certainly. I can't even remember where we were exactly. So I'm going to be spending this week reading through previous episodes and old notes to figure out where we stand. We're looking forward to getting back to work. We would have been shooting already if it weren't for the strike. The strike was a sad necessity, and we're all glad that it's behind us. I'm a little sorry that we'll be in the teeth of winter here in Albuquerque when we finally do shoot. So that's not going to be fun — it'll be way below freezing and it's supposed to be a rainy winter here, too.
Variety: And you're returning to sci-fi. Gilligan: Yeah! I wouldn't call this heavy science fiction, I would call it mild science fiction. But it does have a sci-fi element to it, at its core. And there's no crime, and no methamphetamine. It's going to be fun and different. I have no prediction as to how folks to react to it — whether they'll love it or hate it, or somewhere in the vast in-between. But I know it's a story that interests me, and Rhea will be playing a very different character than she played on "Saul." The weird thing is that it takes place in Albuquerque, except it's a whole different world. There's no overlap that I can see. She's playing a character who is not Kim Wexler, but hopefully people will roll with that. I'm nervous. It'll be interesting to see how folks react to it.
莫名其妙被系统删除了一段,不知道能不能恢复。 Variety: Can you tease anything about the plot? Gilligan: The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different. It's the modern world — the world we live in — but it changes very abruptly. And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that.
THR: Vince Gilligan has been writing this mysterious new show for a number of years now, and I first remember hearing about it when Better Call Saul season five premiered in February 2020. So when did he first gauge your interest? Seehorn: We were wrapping up Saul and I got to say goodbye to some people in person, but I needed to call some other people, like a writer or a director who had already moved on. And so I was basically letting that group of writers, producers and directors know that wherever they went, I'll be there. "Just tell me what time to be there." Getting to do the quality of work that all those people were doing was just an experience like none other, and I just said, "I suppose it goes without saying, but I don't want it to go without saying. I wanted to let you guys know that it would be my greatest pleasure to continue to work with you guys wherever you go and in whatever capacity it's in." And when I said that to Vince, he said, "Well, I actually wrote something for you if you're interested." (Seehorn mimics Gilligan's Southern drawl.) And then I literally cried. I just started bawling. (Laughs.) He said that there is this thing that's been brewing and stewing in his head for a while. There were these different elements of the story, but it wasn't quite working. So you'd have to ask him, but he said at some point along the way of doing Better Call Saul, he was watching me, getting to know me, getting to know the way I work and realized that he should write it for me. And then it started to work, which is how he explained it. I'm sweating saying it because it's a flattery and a compliment that is almost hard to accept.
THR: Has the foreknowledge of a new show helped cushion the loss of Kim and the entire Better Call Saul enterprise from your life? Seehorn: Yes, it absolutely helps cushion it. Vince also likes to work with the same crews, writers and directors, so it will afford me the ability to see those people that I personally love so much. So there's that, and then there's texting most of my castmates weekly and insisting that they stay friends with me. (Laughs.)