“The idea that you would have Vincent D’Onofrio and Kim Coates even in the same scene is kind of for me half the fun of the show”
“The idea that you would have Vincent D’Onofrio and Kim Coates even in the same scene is kind of for me half the fun of the show”
"Major studios don’t have the greatest track record when it comes to representing Black characters on screen. What if they got it all wrong and turned our hero into African Shaft?"
“It’s very tricky to find a person who fits the character so specifically, and Jewel popped into our minds while we were finishing up the script”
“[The] fact that we are a couple, and we’re two women, and we have two kids, is not a plot line anywhere in the whole fucking season”
“I was grieving because I’d been a champion of an industry that had hurt so many people, and how could I champion it any further now that I’d heard the roar of its ugliness?”
“We teach our kids things and then seem to just abandon those ideals in the adult world, and I thought, ‘That could be maybe a fun idea for a show’”