I Am Prone To Get Carried Away

A Parent Can Seem Very Kind And Gentle, But As Any Child Knows, As Soon As That Parent Gets Stressed, They Can Suddenly Turn And Get A Bit Angry.

We Knew, Very Early On, That We Had To Be Very, Very Clear That Directors Need To Speak To Actors And Actresses And Be Very Clear About What Is Expected, And Find Out Whether They're Comfortable With That. Wardrobe Has To Be In Place. There Have To Be Checks.

And So, In Terms Of Setting The Right Tone And Finding A Way Of Presenting All Of These Things, That Creates A Cohesive Whole And Doesn't Alienate The Audience, Is Tough. That's A Challenge. And I Think The Tone Of A Lot Of Shows Is Discovered Through Experimentation And Actually Making It. Eventually, It Starts To Cohere.

But Obviously, Things Have Changed In Many Ways Since The '50s, When The Show Is Started, In Terms Of Sexuality, And How Much Access We Have To Images Of It And Information About It. But, The Same Problems Always Apply. It Doesn't Matter Whether We Know A Lot More About Sex Now Or If There's A Lot More Access To It. The Same Problems Of Intimacy, Of Dealing With Other People, Of Connecting And Being Vulnerable With Other People, Which Is What The Show Is Ultimately About, Still Applies Now, I Think.

No Matter How Difficult Things Are, And No Matter How Much Grief And Loss There Is, You Can Turn It Into Something Positive.