Ahead of the official launch of the new free streaming service, The Network, Collider's Steve Weintraub sat down with the cast and creator of the streamer's first original series, The Green Veil. The historical thriller stars John Leguizamo (Romeo + Juliet) in his first-ever starring role for a television series, written specifically with him in mind by producing partner and series showrunner and creator, Aram Rappaport (The Crash). In addition to Leguizamo, The Green Veil also stars John Ortiz (Silver Linings Playbook), Hani Furstenberg (American Gods), Irene Bedard (Avatar: The Last Airbender), and Isabelle Poloner in her debut role.
The Green Veil is an eight-episode series that centers around Leguizamo's Gordon Rogers, a Latino federal agent attempting to balance the ideal American Dream with his own inner turmoil and oppression of 1950s America. The show brings up questions of identity, particularly through "this self-loathing, self-hating Latin American who was doing everything by the book." It looks at American history through a sci-fi lens, but amplifies the stories that aren't often given a voice in movies and television. In his own words, Leguizamo says:
"Latin people are 20% of the population, Black people are 14%, and the stories aren't being told, and they're not being greenlit. It's crazy. The story of Native Americans - You pitched the story everywhere, and to deaf ears and a lot of smiles, but no one's greenlighting it. So you have to take matters into your own hands, and that's what Aram did."
So what took so long for Leguizamo, who's storied career has made him a household name, to lead his own television series? In this Q&A following our advanced screening, the cast discusses the challenges they faced getting their series onto the screen. They talk about the struggle of getting marginalized people's stories told, so much so that they created their own streamer (The Network) in order to greenlight it. They talk about filming 20 pages worth of dialogue a day, working side-by-side with an intimacy coordinator, and how The Green Veil does what other period pieces like Mad Men won't. For all of this and tons more, check out the full Q&A in the video above, or you can read the transcript below.
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29 сен 2024
