TEN Qs WITH LISA KUDROW AND MICHAEL PATRICK KING:
1. Childhood nickname:\u00a0Kudrow: \u201cLisa Pizza.\u201d King: \u201cSissy.\u201d<\/p>\n
2. Something you loved as a kid but can\u2019t believe you were into it now:\u00a0Kudrow: \u201cCandy dots. It\u2019s just sugar!\u201d King: \u201cMy grandmother used to make us something called \u2018toast on the stove,\u2019 which is she would put a piece of white bread slathered in butter on the open gas jet, and then take two scoops of sugar and put it on the toast. We would sit at a table like characters from a Dickens novel, eating toast on the stove, and then probably fall into a coma and a nap.\u201d<\/p>\n
3. Go-to Karaoke or sing-in-the-shower song:\u00a0Kurdrow: \u201cIt\u2019s different every time. I always think it\u2019s interesting, why is this song on my mind today?\u201d King: \u201cI have to be careful because I don\u2019t sing and I don\u2019t think musically, so if I hear a song, it gets trapped in my head. Now I\u2019m still hearing Adele, \u2018should I give up or show I just keep chasing pavements.\u2019 Which when we were doing the show, Lisa thought the lyric was, \u2018should I give up or should I just keep chasing rainbows.\u2019 And I thought that was so Valerie to spin it up, \u2018chasing rainbows,\u2019 but now that\u2019s in my head a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
4. Give me an alternate title for your show:\u00a0Both: \u201cRaw Footage.\u201d Says King: \u201cWhen we started our research, we got raw footage from \u2018The Osbornes\u2019 bootleg tapes, because I had somebody that worked on the show that I knew. That color bar we kept in the first season, everything started with that, because it was supposed to be like an assembly that was created by the second editor, not the final cut, but raw footage was the first thing. Because it was all raw footage, and that was how we defined what the show could be versus television, because we didn\u2019t want it to look polished at all. We wanted it to look off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adds Kudrow: \u201cAnd how awkward it was really going to be!\u201d Says King: \u201cAll that downtime that we saw when we looked at the \u2018Osborne\u2019 footage was just boring! And you could see people sort of trying to get something going, and so \u2018Raw Footage\u2019 was the first title, and we also thought we were doing it with one camera.\u00a0Carolyn Strauss\u00a0at HBO was such an advocate, she said maybe try two cameras.\u201dAren\u2019t you glad now you didn\u2019t call it \u201cRaw Footage?\u201d King is relieved: \u201cYes, because I don\u2019t think \u2018Raw Footage\u2019 comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n
5. What\u2019s your secret talent?: King: \u201cI can wiggle my ears.\u201d Kudrow: \u201cI don\u2019t have any!\u201d<\/p>\n
6. Favorite ice cream flavor: King: \u201cChocolate chip mint.\u201d Kudrow: \u201cI don\u2019t like ice cream! Too cold. Even as a kid, I thought, why is this a treat? It\u2019s milk! I hate milk. Just chocolate! That\u2019s a treat. But frozen milk, that\u2019s kind of bullshit.\u201d So what is Kudrow\u2019s favorite dessert? \u201cI love chocolate chip cookies.\u201d (\u201cFriends\u201d fans might note that on the show, it was Ross who hated ice cream \u2014 because it was too cold.)<\/p>\n
7. The one item you couldn\u2019t live without: Kudrow: \u201cThere\u2019s too many! But Nicorette.\u201d King: \u201cMy version of nicotine, which is television.\u201d<\/p>\n
8. What TV show in all of history do you wish you were a cast member of?: King: I feel like there\u2019s a magical, \u2018Brigadoon\u2019 kind of bridge that I would have liked to have crossed to go into \u2018The Mary Tyler Moore Show.\u2019 That felt like something new and warm, and I bet she was a great No. 1. It had all those great writers, and it felt like a charmed circle.\u201d Kudrow: \u201cWhen I was a kid, \u2018The Brady Bunch.\u2019 Or \u2018The Partridge Family.\u2019 I used to be like, \u2018what if I could be in the Partridge Family? Wouldn\u2019t that be great?\u2019 I wasn\u2019t acting, it wasn\u2019t even a possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
9. Fictional character you most relate to: [Not asked]<\/p>\n
10. Your favorite piece of advice: King: \u201cI tell writers all the time that there\u2019s only one path, and it\u2019s yours. Don\u2019t think you have to have somebody else\u2019s path, because they can all be very personal to them. Don\u2019t compare yourself path wise to anybody else, and it\u2019s easier said than done, but it\u2019s a valuable lesson. As you start on the road to writing and showrunning, you look around and see how everybody else got there. But it doesn\u2019t help, just keep doing you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Says Kudrow: \u201cI had an acting teacher, and it was really just a cold reading class. It was about coping with acting, auditioning, and on TV and film, and it was something along those lines. Do what you do, and be your version of who that character is, and you at least have done a good job. The rest is none of your business. That\u2019s your only job, and it\u2019s really simple, so you don\u2019t have to take it personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
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