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Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses delve into the creative process behind 'The Patient,' detailing the importance of both Steve Carell's and Charly Clive's character arcs. The actors also recount their exciting experience working with pyrotechnics on set and the 'giddy' energy it created.
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00:00I want to say that this show is as much about Charlie Clive, who plays his daughter, her journey, as
00:04it is his, okay?
00:06Because we took great pains to, you know, describe a young woman who hasn't become autonomously independent yet.
00:14So even when she got to the school, she takes the time to say she got in a relationship really
00:17quick before she could develop a community.
00:20And if she's going to have a journey to finding out who she really is and being an independent woman,
00:26the best way to start is to strip her of everything and have her lose her marriage and burn her
00:31house down
00:32and just have everything that she touches be a disaster.
00:35The war and peace thing is actually kind of funny because you remember that part of that joke came from
00:39the fact that I messed up who wrote what.
00:41Yeah, we – there was a quote that I would – when I was in college that no one must
00:45be humiliated is this real Chekhov quote.
00:47And so we wanted this to be a – we wanted to use – we made him a Russian –
00:52I thought it was a Tolstoy quote.
00:54And he thought it was a Tolstoy quote.
00:55Because I'm not book smart.
00:57Matt's smart and I'm dumb.
00:58And so we decided that Steve would be that dumb and say that he had presented his whole argument based
01:05on Chekhov and that he doesn't like –
01:07and then Phil doesn't like Chekhov.
01:10That's amazing.
01:11And so that's based on our dynamic because even though Matt seems nice, he's constantly giving me crap about how
01:16much smarter he is.
01:17And the annoying thing is, is he is much smarter than I am.
01:20I'm more charming though.
01:21That was a really fun one to film because there was pyrotechnics.
01:27I'd never done anything with pyrotechnics before which is – and it makes everyone a bit giddy.
01:32And there's a lot of men around the set of course and there's fire around and all of them were
01:36so excited.
01:37Which is really funny to see a group of grown men like really eager for things to burn.
01:45And that was fun.
01:46And some of it was real and some of it wasn't.
01:47So there's lots of them being like, okay, react to your left.
01:50And I had to be like, ah.
01:51And that was – I enjoyed filming that very much.
01:54Also, the War and Peace thing is just perfect because it's such a pretentious thing to just sort of have
02:00out.
02:00And the idea of it being a first edition is – I think that Archie is a very lovable kind
02:06of like supervillain to Katie in many ways.
02:08And to burn War and Peace felt quite perfect.
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