‘Six Feet Under’: The oral history of HBO’s beloved landmark series
During its first season alone, the series earned a total of 23 Emmy nominations in 2002, including nine acting nods. It also won that year’s Golden Globe for Best Drama Series, plus a Peabody Award for “its unsettling yet powerfully humane explorations of life and death.” Far from being just a critical darling, audiences were coming along for the ride, too — its fanbase grew larger with each season.
After they read it, they invited me in, and I went in and met with Carolyn and with Chris Albrecht, who was running HBO at the time, and they said, “We really like this, but we have a main note for the whole thing: It feels kind of safe. Could you make it more fucked up?” During the first week of shooting, he pulled me to the side and said, “You know, I wrote this with you in mind.” I was so floored when he said that. He had just won an Oscar, and now’s he’s trusting me so much with this character. So I felt a deep, deep sense of responsibility to deliver. It paid off: I was nominated for an Emmy, and the rest is history. But I always kept that sense of 110% work ethic about me because of what Alan did.
“We used to say that Nate was Marilyn Munster and that everybody else in the family was much more overtly strange. Nate seemed normal. But as the series went on, that was very clearly not the case.”Alan talked about how he was having a difficult time finding Nate, so I went in and read in front of HBO. I was quite pleased to play the part. It felt less defined to me than David; David was a very clear character, and Nate was a little blurrier on the page.
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