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The Big Picture Over the course of the six-episode season of the HBO series The Regime, Chancellor Elena Vernham became increasingly paranoid and unstable in her authoritarian rule over the Central European country she promised to bring together. When the civil war was brought to her doorstep and the palace walls were breached, Elena and her love Herbert Zubak were forced to escape for their own survival.
WILL TRACY: I pulled from all over, in terms of what I was reading, and not even things I directly read for research for the show. My brain is a weird repository of information about these figures from books that I’ve read, dating back 20 years now. People will probably recognize bits of Stalin or Ceausescu or Assad.
TRACY: Yes, although it was not as hard as you might think because of the world and the subject matter and because of who Elena is. Like all these real-life figures, she’s such an extremely powerful, but isolated figure, with such unlimited access to resources that she can create her own reality, and her version of reality has to become everyone else’s reality who surrounds her.
TRACY: Yeah. I didn’t know I was gonna bring it back at the end until later on, but that scene of her singing that Chicago song in the first episode was one of the first things I ever wrote for the show. It’s actually one of the few things that survived from the very, very, very first draft I ever wrote. I changed the story a lot. Originally, Zubak was just a sideline character, and then I made him the co-lead of the show. But that scene of her singing that song was always in there.
TRACY: Yeah. She needs someone down there who really knows her. By the end, he may be dead, but finally these two people really know each other. Dad’s gone, and now, in some way, there’s this healthier figure to be that voice in her head, but who’s also gonna make her feel great guilt. She can’t acknowledge that guilt to anyone else. In fact, publicly, she would probably tell people, “Herbert Zubak was a bad actor in my administration who tried to ruin me.
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