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Co-creator Amy Lippman tells The Times what's in store for the season finale, how to avoid "trauma porn" in this immigrant narrative and much more.
There’s been a lot of conversation recently about who should be telling certain stories. And you’ve talked about how, at the beginning of this venture, it was important for you to staff the writers room with people that could speak to this experience, or have a connection to it, in a way that maybe you didn’t have. Talk about what you were feeling diving into this premise.
I would hate to think that the only things that I can write about as a person of a certain ethnicity is to use my own experience. If you sort of broaden that out, it means I have no authority to write about men, or I have no authority to write about Catholics, or I have no authority to write about the transgender community. I think if you say to a writer, “You can’t credibly tell a story about anyone except yourself,” I think we are limiting the stories that people can write. I think what’s important is that a writer, like myself, doesn’t claim any authority over anyone’s experience, and actually writes of another person’s experience in as informed a way as possible.
So for example, from the beginning, Chris [Keyser] and I, who created the show together, felt like we needed to have a point of view informed by someone who’s own experience sort of skewed closer to the experience of the Acostas. I ran a writers’ room where I felt that it was really important that any story we told was vetted by people who had a closer experience than I to the experience of the characters. I wouldn’t presume to say that I speak for a Latinx community. I feel like I should be allowed to imagine stories outside my own personal experience, as long as they are informed by people who really do have, like, ownership over a certain experience. And it’s really tricky. Over the course of the season, the conversations that we had in the room were so dynamic and informative and challenging. And what I really realized is that there is no one way to tell anyone’s story. And that speaks to not only the plight of the Acostas, but, for example, we have a transgender character on the show. And that story line is informed by consultants and members of the LGBTQ community.
I think what becomes the issue is, if you’re not writing from experience or a connection to it, are you doing the homework to tell it authentically versus relying on tropes or your limited idea of whatever it is.
From the beginning, before anything was written, we brought in a Latinx writer to help us with very first episode. It wasn’t like we only relied on the story that had been told before, that we transposed to a Latinx family. We knew it had to have qualities that were really unique to their circumstances, so that we just couldn’t rely on what we’ve done before. Every single episode was read by everyone in the room, we had consultants, we had endless conversations about them. It was really important to me that people could look at the show and relate to it and that it be authentic.
I’m concerned that the takeaway of that conversation is that people cannot write experiences that are not their own. If that’s the takeaway, I think we’re going to limit people who are really well-intended and who want to explore experiences other than their own. I don’t want to be circumscribed in that way. I want to be able to imagine and create situations that are unfamiliar to me.
We got our first look at Freeform’s Party of Five and I’m already all up in my feelings.
During Freeform’s upfront presentation Tuesday morning, the network debuted the first trailer for the reboot of the beloved 90s show, which you can see above. Instead of the orphaned Sallinger children, the new series will follow the…
An American television producer and writer, who came into the limelight as the co-creator of Party of Five, Amy Lippman, is politically conscious as a donor to Democratic candidates and causes. Her total net worth is unknown and is under review.
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El reboot de Party of Five con "giro cultural" aterriza episodio piloto en Freeform
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Tanto en el cine como la televisión, realizar reboots continúa siendo de alta demanda. El más reciente en obtener un reinicio –en pantalla chica– es el drama Party of Five, serie que fue emitida originalmente en Fox a mediados de los años 90.
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