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00:00Hi, thank you for this time, Dennis, and congratulations for this show.

00:05What was the spark?

00:07Oh, great.

00:08The impetus for starting the story, the match, was Kary Antholis,

00:15who was the producer on Blackbird with me.

00:18He had done a podcast called Firebug.

00:22It was about a serial arsonist who was also an arson investigator named John Orr.

00:27And he brought that to me and said, do you think there's a TV show in this?

00:31And I listened to the podcast and I said, I'm not really interested in a lot of what happened,

00:38but I love the pathology of the character.

00:40I love the psychological makeup of this guy.

00:42And this was a guy who was an arson investigator chasing an arsonist who was himself,

00:48who was also writing a book about an arson investigator chasing an arsonist

00:52with details in the book that only the real arsonist could have known.

00:56And I just thought, that's nuts.

00:59That's wonderful.

01:00I want to write about that type of character.

01:04And that's what I did.

01:07And the most surprising thing about the series, to me,

01:12are the constant twists and turns and the unpredictability of the end.

01:17Yes.

01:17As a writer, how do you achieve this result?

01:23We just embraced this idea in the writer's room very early on that this was a crazy, chaotic story

01:30that should mirror what fire can do.

01:34You know, fire can do a lot of good things.

01:36Fire can be a lot of things.

01:38It can be beautiful.

01:42It can be destructive.

01:44It can be repulsive.

01:47It can be sexy.

01:48It can warm you.

01:50It can kill you.

01:51It can do all of these things.

01:52And so we just thought, let's build our world that way.

01:55Let's let every character mirror that.

01:57And so all the characters in the show are kind of, they're psychologically a little bit demented, I would say, and complex.

02:10And we just wanted to continue playing with that.

02:13And that led to a lot of surprises that we didn't count on.

02:17That we, you know, and then all of a sudden we were like, oh my God, what if episode whatever ended that way?

02:23Well, that would be kind of fun.

02:24Didn't see that coming.

02:24And that just translates to the show.

02:29And the biggest challenge of writing such compelling and shady characters.

02:36Oh, I didn't find that.

02:37I don't find that challenging.

02:39I don't find, I'll tell you what I find challenging.

02:41If somebody said write a hero, I don't know how to do that.

02:45I've never done that in my life.

02:46I don't know how to write that type of guy.

02:48I don't, or write an absolute sniveling villain.

02:51I don't know how to do that.

02:53I don't know people like that.

02:54Most people are messy.

02:57Most human beings are messy.

02:59We can be good.

03:01We can be bad, sometimes in the same breath.

03:04I mean, it's very complex to understand that there can be not only bad in good people,

03:15but that there can be a lot of good in bad people.

03:18That's really hard to wrap your head around.

03:20And so I write about it.

03:22I write about it because I'm trying to figure it out.

03:24I don't ever come to a project with answers.

03:27I always just come with questions.

03:29Another thing I loved about the show was the opening credits with the song of Tom York.

03:35How did this collaboration came about?

03:38My music supervisor, Mary Ramos, had heard that Tom was a fan of Blackbird.

03:45So when we were looking for a theme, she reached out to Tom.

03:50Tom asked to see some scripts.

03:52I sent him some scripts.

03:53He asked to hear what I thought the show was about.

03:56I told him.

03:57A couple months later, he sends in that song.

03:59And the strangest moment was they said, now you can give him notes.

04:05And I was like, I'm not giving Tom York notes.

04:09I'm just going to say, great job.

04:11Can you do it?

04:12Yeah.

04:12That was it.

04:14And that's how we got that song.

04:17Okay.

04:18Thank you very much.

04:19And congratulations for this show and for Blackbird.

04:22Oh, thank you so very much.

04:23Thank you.

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