As a playwright and screenwriter, Tony McNamara was never particularly interested in scripting the period piece. The irony is, of course, that he’s spent the last several years doing so, and it’s t…
, McNamara has earned his first Oscar and Emmy nominations, perfecting the art of revisionist historical storytelling, while cultivating the brash comedic tone for which he is now well known.by two years, it was McNamara’s pilot script for the series that landed him the former gig. Originating in 2008, as a play performed at the Sydney Theatre Company,was adapted first as a film, before McNamara recognized that the story at hand was better suited to the expanse of TV.
So, that made me want to write it, and then I was like, “Oh, well how would I write it? What language would I use? What style would I use, so I liked it?” Rather than it be a straight period thing, which I wouldn’t like, and I probably wouldn’t be very good at writing. So I was like, “Well, what plays to my strengths, and how would I write it?” That’s sort of how it started.MCNAMARA
I knew from the play I had two great main characters, and then I knew I had two great actors. So it was then like, “Okay, how do I now build a world that tells the story? How do I build a world of characters that will get me great actors, because they’ll feel like they’re going to have great scenes to do, [where] I’ll have something that can sustain 20 or 30 hours of drama?”
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