A while ago, it would have been surprising director of a movie Oscar winner, ‘CODA. ‘Sounds of Silence’In other words, he will return to the present day with a series, not another movie under his arm. However, switching between the two formats, whether for industrial or creative reasons, is becoming more and more common among filmmakers of all calibers. In the case of Sian Heder, he returns to the spotlight with ‘Little America’ (Apple TV+ since Friday the 9th) has been both a matter of commitment and passion. “We wrote the second season of the series in the spring of 2020,” he explains by video calling us. “Production was supposed to start in May of that year. But the world stopped, of course. There was a huge gap between writing and filming due to Covid-19. Making a season of this series, that is, making a season… is almost like making eight films, but the deadline is typical of episodic television. history, it was impossible under these conditions”.
Inspired by true immigrant stories, this anthology was introduced as a project developed by when its first season aired in January 2020. kumail nanjiani Y Emily V. Gordon, married couple and writers of ‘The Great Love Sickness’, Brilliant dramatic comedy that created a commercial surprise in the summer of 2017. Now, after ‘CODA’s three Oscars, it’s being advertised in full volume as a business. de Heder is his ‘showrunner’ from the very beginning. Lee Eisenberg is a former writer and producer of “The Office”. “Marketing business!” he says, laughing. “I have nothing to do with this decision.”
Korean Hatter in Detroit
for HederHis relationships with the real people who inspired the ‘Little America’ episodes turned into a passion.. “You interview them over and over, they share their lives with you. It’s a huge generosity that makes them so vulnerable. As a creator, you have to respect that vulnerability and give their story justice,” explains the author-producer.
He directed El Silencio himself last season. Mélanie Laurent as a French woman (originally Swiss) finding love by barely raising his voice in a quiet meditation retreat. He doesn’t direct any of the eight episodes here, but as ‘co-showrunner’ he oversaw the writing of all of them. And with Jenny Zhang (a famous novelist who jumped from Shanghai to New York at the age of five) ‘Mr. Song’, the opening chapter about The man who designed Aretha Franklin’s iconic bow hat for Obama’s inauguration. “When I researched that iconic piece, I was surprised to learn that Song was a Korean expat from Seoul with his family. [en su época de niñez, el personaje es nada menos que Alan S. Kim, el niño de ‘Minari’] and eventually aroused admiration in Detroit’s black community. He was and is the reference hatter for women looking for the best accessory for the church”.
Frowning on feeling good
Cultural crossover (between communities, between friends who don’t expect to be friends) is one of the main themes of this season. There is a section like ‘The Indoor Arm’ left. Friendship between a young Salvadoran woman and a Japanese gardener. Or about the “bra whisperer” A black Belizean woman who becomes familiar with American culture from within the Borough Park Hasidic communitya core of Orthodox Judaism in Brooklyn. “We also delved into the question of family and family expectations, how one generation demands something from another,” Heder explains. “And we tried to deconstruct the American dream to find out exactly what the tradeoff is and whether it has always worked for the immigrant. To discover what sort of things we sacrifice in pursuit of ambition and capitalism.”
Despite containing dramatic elements, the small but epic stories of ‘Little America’ are often overflowing with good feelings, something that inevitably condemns them to the disdain of some of the critics. Why is feeling bad seen better than feeling good? “There’s still a perception today that good art is nihilistic,” Heder says. “We don’t consciously think about making ‘feel-good’ stories, but in the end we’re attracted to voices that mix emotion and humor, human warmth. Let’s say we never wanted to make a drama, let’s say, or aim for less. There is a space to occupy in TV series like this one that you can watch with your children, that make the family feel more united, that serve to empathize with the marginalized or ‘other’ characters.‘foreign’”.