So we’d have situations where we’d have a scene where perhaps there was a line or a moment that I would suddenly think, "Wait a minute, this doesn't really feel very authentic to the character." And we were constantly referring back to the books and conversations with Louise and the writers, just to make sure that we didn't misrepresent the character in any way. At the same time, when the characters are so richly written and so clearly defined in the way that she writes them, I think the informed thing is to just stay cognizant of that as you're working on the scripts. And you don't quite have that luxury of time with a TV show, so there is a process that has to be gone through. The wonderful thing about reading one of Louise Penny's novels is that you can take as much time as you want with it. It became an all-encompassing, all-engrossing experience, and I had a wonderful time with it.Īdapting a book to a screen story, by definition, is reductive you have to reduce the book down to certain key elements. Actors talk a lot about finding something in the characters that intrigues them and there were so many things. That struck me as a really interesting element for a contemporary police officer, particularly in the North American context. And one of the key things was his refusal to carry a gun. The more I read, I realized that there was a real core of believability and humanity to him. He's charming, he's an intellectual, he reads poetry, he's a Cambridge graduate-all the things that I'm not. He certainly has a past-and a rather tragic one-but he's not the kind of detective that's walking around with a cloud over his head and fighting some terrible demon. I think what mainly drew me was the complexity of the character, how multi-layered he was, and how very different he was from a lot of detectives that we see on TV. I was in the middle of doing the last Spider-Man movie and I received a call about this possibility, and I was talking with one of the producers on Spider-Man, Amy Pascal, and I said, "Have you ever heard of this writer, Louise Penny?" And she suddenly jumped out of her chair and said, "Oh my god, she's brilliant, I've read all her books." She was so enthusiastic that I said, “I've got to go and read them." I wasn't aware of the order, so I actually started reading the first two or three books out of order, which got a little confusing.īut I fell in love with the books. Alfred Molina: I wasn't aware of the books.
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