Season six of Charlie Brooker's warped dystopian hit series Black Mirror has arrived on Netflix today. We managed to catch up with the showrunner to discuss the inspiration for the episode Joan is Awful starring the incredible Salma Hayek.
As Joan tries to regain control over her secrets being unveiled on a huge streaming platform, chaos ensues only for her to ultimately find out a huge twist that leaves her questioning all her choices.Charlie has revealed his ideaHe told us: ‘Joan is Awful this season, I had half an idea which was, is there a story about… the title for some reason stuck in my head.
‘She’s the lead item on the news – not because she’s involved in a terrible scandal, or she’s done something heroic, but just she’s like, [the] main character of the day, her co-workers don’t like the way she chews her food or something minor like that. I was like, I don’t know what the story is, but it’s a funny situation.’
He continued: ‘There’s another idea… which was to do [with] like deep fake AI generated imagery being streamed by a news network. But I didn’t know what to do with either of these ideas. So you’ve got an idea, but you don’t have a story., which is the dramatisation of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos story, and I was watching that with my wife and we were sort of commenting on like, god, this feels like it happened yesterday, and here it is already a drama on TV.
Charlie added that instead of ‘leaving an idea behind’, it remains in the ‘playing on a loop somewhere in the back of your head, and you find the place for it.’ Ahead of the episode dropping, Magic Mike star Salma revealed one particularly grim scene left her fearing she’d be in trouble.
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