Probably the most profound and unifying minute of my life, atop Lakepoint Tower in Chicago on our scout in the fall of 2019, when for the first time in my life I saw as a showrunner how you could do anything.
What’s funny is almost nothing I say about how we’ll use this roof ends up being true in the story; in fact, we don’t even go to the roof, and for the sequence in the end we used the neighbors’ apartment. But the concept we needed was that Jeevan would get to a place where he could see in a different direction, not the lake. The idea is it would be this ice prison and impassable.
Then we really got up there, and it was this incredibly beautiful fall day, and I went over by Hiro and saw Chicago in the sun and it was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever seen. AND terrifying, given the height. And there he was with his camera, loving it.
Maybe what I learned more than anything that day was that the right people were up on that roof, and we were all the right kind of crazy.