It was like, we know who this guy is at the beginning, we know what he’s going to be at the end if we get that far, and everything else fills in around the character. Chips and turn him into Scarface.” They built a show around the character. Famously that show was pitched as, “We’re going to take Mr. Your Breaking Bads, let’s say, where you don’t do Breaking Bad if you haven’t understood fundamentally who Walter White is and what’s going to happen. There are certain shows that are character studies. At what point in the process of creating a show do the characters come to life? Since you’re in the early stages of a few shows, this seems like a fitting time to ask about character creation.
It’s, like Rutherford, sort of plugging along. There was a pilot we were going to shoot for HBO Max in late April. Hopefully, whenever this ends we will be just like, “OK, we’ve got all 10 scripts, let’s get going.” There’s other projects that were at different stages. We meet three times a week and we all have assignments and we go off and work on scripts. We’ve just continued to work on the scripts. We kept the maximum number of people on the payroll that you can, because the whole writers’ room kept working and all the assistants kept working. So, if it’s possible to be in a good position during something like this, we were in a good position because we were able to, thanks to Zoom, just keep working. We had drafts of seven out of the 10 episodes, and two others were broken. Basically, we were in the middle of the production meeting for the first episode. Are you still able to work on anything, besides the beard? I read that Rutherford Falls production was postponed. Whatever the people say, that is the definitive word on which characters are good. … but a bunch of your other characters did! It’s a very scientific process, obviously, both the seeding and the voting, all extremely scientific.
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Somehow, Mose did not make our bracket of the best TV characters of the past 20 years. It’s a runaway victory for shaving my head over growing this stupid beard.įor you to start selflessly growing an itchy beard at a time when it’s dangerous to touch your face-I don’t want to use the word “hero” lightly, but. I was accused by many people of doing this to get out of shaving my head, and my honest-to-god true response is, I would so much rather shave my head.
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With production on his series halted, Schur made time to tell us how to create a great TV character, how classic characters evolve, his TV touchstones, the blessings and curses of deep casts, and the original Ron. Schur, who by popular demand is reluctantly regrowing his Mose beard from The Office for charity, is working on three new TV projects, including Rutherford Falls, an NBC streaming sitcom starring Office alum Ed Helms.
Round 1 pitted the last two against each other-Janet was marbleized-and Tony Soprano narrowly edged out Leslie in the Sweet 16, but Michael, Ron, and Dwight have made it to the Elite Eight. Schur, a former writer, producer, and (occasional) actor on The Office and the creator or cocreator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place, had a hand in developing five of the bracket’s contenders: Michael Scott, Ron Swanson, Leslie Knope, Dwight Schrute, and Janet.
There’s been one constant in every round of The Ringer ’s Best TV Character of the Century Bracket: characters from Michael Schur’s shows.
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