Ecco la nostra intervista a Cinco Paul, creatore, e a Barry Sonnenfeld, regista di Schmigadoon!, la nuova serie Appletv+ disponibile in piattaforma con i primi due episodi dal 16 luglio e con un episodio nuovo ogni venerdì, fino al 13 agosto.
00:00Grazie a tutti e grazie per questa meravigliosa avventura in Zmikadun.
00:11Oh, grazie Chiara.
00:14Per me è stato un po' di un po' di fresh air in TV, in questo momento.
00:21È mixa musicale e comedy in forma di una serie di TV.
00:25Where did the idea come from and what are the main inspirations for that story and that form?
00:34Well, I'll tell you, I had the idea for this almost 25 years ago.
00:39It was a long time coming, but it's crazy.
00:44I was watching this movie called An American Werewolf in London, a horror movie.
00:49It was one of my favorite movies, and it starts off with the two guys backpacking through the countryside.
00:56And I thought, oh, this is a lot like the opening to Brigadoon.
01:00And then suddenly I thought, what if these two guys stumbled upon a musical and got stuck in it?
01:05And I loved the idea, but I didn't know what to do with it until, you know, about four years ago, I was really interested in doing TV and creating a TV show.
01:17And I met with Lorne Michaels' company, and they said they were looking for a musical.
01:21And I thought, oh, maybe that old idea.
01:25Maybe it's time for that old idea.
01:27And as soon as I came up with the name Schmigadoon, I knew it was going to work.
01:34And other inspirations are obviously all those golden age musicals that we love.
01:41The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, the MGM musicals, Singing in the Rain, one of my all-time favorites.
01:48The most important lesson we learn from Schmigadoon is being true to yourself and how hard it is in real life.
01:56Yeah, I think it is, you know, it was really an interesting thing to explore that all these characters in Schmigadoon are musical theater tropes, right?
02:08We have the farm girl, we have the bad boy, we have the stern father figure, and then we have the uptight school teacher.
02:16But the fun thing is that deep down inside, they're more than that.
02:22They're yearning to be something more.
02:24And then obviously the mayor is not able to be who he truly is.
02:30And so it was fun to explore having Josh and Melissa come into this town and help unlock these things.
02:38Help these people start to change and realize, oh, I can be more than this.
02:44Which it really is hard to, you know, so often in life we are, people put labels on us, right?
02:51And think of us in a very two-dimensional way.
02:54But all of us are much more complicated than that.
02:58Yeah.
02:58And I think it was beautiful that the mayor starts to reveal himself for what he really is.
03:07And it's beautiful because he is a guide for this little community.
03:10And that was really a tribute to, back in those days, there would be characters that were coded as gay, you know, but they weren't able, they weren't allowed to say it.
03:23And so it was really nice to say, here's this character, and now he's allowed to actually proclaim who he really is.
03:30So, as a director, what models were you inspired by and what things did you try to invent to bring to life Shmigadu?
03:49Well, that's a very good question.
03:52I'm not someone who embraces musical theater, whether it's live musical theater or even in the movies.
04:01I'm not a fan of Brigadoon or Oklahoma or Carousel or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
04:10Although I had to watch them just to get a sense of what MGM musicals are like.
04:15I knew singing in the rain.
04:17That was the extent of it.
04:18So, for me, the challenge was to make our show feel very much like a discovered MGM musical that had never been released, you know.
04:32So, I studied how they were shot, which are usually, you can see people's toes to head, which I love.
04:41I don't like musicals that have too many cuts in the dance numbers.
04:47If you have great dancers, which we had, you want to play it out in wider shots so you can actually see them dancing.
04:57So, that's what I learned and tried to embrace.
05:01And then what I brought to the table are, I think, two things.
05:05One is, I brought a great crew.
05:08I brought on Bo Welsh, the greatest production designer, who did an amazing job on the sets.
05:14We had a great choreographer named Chris Gutelli, who just did amazing stuff.
05:20And then I brought my own sense of humor and sensibility to the performances, which are usually, I like actors to talk very quickly, which I got them to do, which was great.
05:32And also, I like to use the camera sometimes as a storytelling device and not just a recording device.
05:40So, I did do a few nice little camera tricks.
05:43But for the most part, it looks like they discovered an MGM musical that someone forgot to release.
05:50It was a very good job.
05:53Thank you.
05:54Thank you.
05:54And Mildred's character can be considered something like the villain.
06:03But, in fact, in the end, we discovered that, as Melissa says to her, she's not a bad person, maybe.
06:13But she has to learn to let go things on their own way.
06:19So, in real life, what it is to let go?
06:21It's impossible to let go.
06:25I am the worst person to take on that philosophy and try to run with it.
06:30I am a micromanager.
06:33You know, when I'm not directing and I'm home with my wife and I watch her put the groceries away and I say, you know, sweetie, I call her sweetie.
06:43I go, you know, sweetie, if you put the butter in the other refrigerator and she'll stop me and she'll say, you've got to get a job.
06:50You've got to go back to directing.
06:52You've got to stop directing me on where to put the butter in the fridge.
06:57So, I am the worst person to let go of anything.
07:00I think it was a very long pandemic for your wife.
07:05It was.
07:06Very, very long.
07:08Thank you.
07:10Good to see you.
07:11Absolutely.
07:11Thank you.
07:13Thank you.
07:13Thank you.
07:16Yeah.
07:17You're welcome.
07:17Thank you.
07:21You're welcome.
07:22Thank you.
07:24You're welcome.
07:25Oh, well, thank you.
07:28Mm-hmm.
07:28Thank you.
07:29Thank you.
07:31Thank you.
07:33Thank you.
07:34Thank you.
07:34Thank you.
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