Keri Russel y Rufus Sewell regresan a la pantalla con la nueva temporada de “The Diplomat”
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00:00Explosion in central London.
00:07Can we find the home secretary?
00:08I'd like to be able to tell the ambassador
00:09whether her husband is...
00:11Season two delves deeper into the personal lives
00:13of your characters and all of the characters really,
00:16but particularly in the aftermath of the explosion.
00:19How did you approach portraying the emotional impact
00:23of these events and the characters
00:25and what challenges did you face doing so?
00:28Do you have a good answer?
00:30No, I never know how to describe how I approach something.
00:33I know.
00:34I'm not sure I know how I approach something.
00:36I know.
00:38I learnt the lines.
00:39Yeah.
00:39Most of it was in that.
00:41I think we have this incredible luxury on this job.
00:48In Debra Khan, who writes our show,
00:51the writing is so good and so fun and smart
00:55and the writing does a lot of the work.
00:57It really does.
00:58So we kind of get to show up and say the words.
01:04What that means is it makes such sense when you read it.
01:09It's not that we're just parroting the line,
01:13but it makes such that you just intrinsically understand
01:16where it's coming from.
01:17It makes sense to us in terms of the character
01:20and what we really need to do,
01:21and it's the way we are together.
01:23You know, a lot of it is instinctual,
01:25but based on great writing.
01:28Yeah, and the show tackles serious political themes
01:31while maintaining also a little bit of sense of humor
01:33and wit and, you know, balancing that dramatic
01:37and comedic element of the stories.
01:39You know, is it something that you two discussed before?
01:42Or how does this contribute, do you think,
01:44to the show's overall tone
01:46while also paying attention to these important themes?
01:49Well, I think that's the fun
01:51and that's where this show really crackles and is great,
01:57is that we're tackling these very serious worlds
02:02and kind of explaining the world of diplomacy
02:06to people who may not know much about it.
02:08But it's also about people
02:11and the people who live regular lives
02:14and have regular embarrassing, sad, ridiculous feelings
02:18within those days of huge jobs.
02:22So I think that cross-section of those two things
02:27you just talked about is what's so fun about the show,
02:30and that's when it really works.
02:34Yeah, and I feel that, you know, what you're talking about,
02:37you're talking about a style of writing or a style of show,
02:41but I prefer to think of it as just a type of person,
02:46or not even a type of person,
02:48which is actually people in general,
02:51aside from the uniform and the job,
02:54bring humour to their worlds and to their life.
02:58And often that's left out of drama.
03:00People are just like, you know,
03:02they talk business and cops are super serious, etc., etc.
03:07In reality, people make stupid jokes all the time,
03:10and particularly in my experience,
03:13the people in this area of life,
03:14people who are involved in the world of politics
03:16and speech writing, they're really quick.
03:19They're really funny, and their jokes are not a style.
03:24It's a way of thinking.
03:26It's a way of leaping from one thoughtless
03:28to see the gags, to see the joke, to see the insult,
03:31to be able to see a thousand things like Terminator
03:34in a moment and pick the right course through,
03:37which is kind of charismatic political thinking.
03:40It's to be able to see all the possibilities
03:42and go through that.
03:43These are bright, funny, quick people,
03:46and it's how they think.
03:48So it's not just a kind of flavour
03:49that's pasted over as a kind of writing style.
03:51It's actually the kind of people we're playing.
03:53And you can see it when we go to these places,
03:55we meet these people, or you listen to political podcasts,
04:00the ones I listen to, they're really funny
04:02because these people are smart in that way.