Ahead of the 2019 Emmys, Ava Duvernay and Craig Mazin discuss excavating history’s darkest hours for the small screen
revolving around the true story of Marie, an 18-year-old charged with lying about being raped.“There’s such hunger for stuff that will address issues of national, international importance with a really good, compelling, dramatic take,” says Timberman. The series follows the two female detectives who unraveled the case, adding a slightly more upbeat note of strength and resilience. “Nobody wants to watch anything 100 percent devastating,” says Grant.
Squeezing Wise’s ordeal into less than 90 minutes of screen time required the writers to make tricky consolidations. For instance, the kind prison guard named Roberts , who gives Wise magazines in solitary confinement, is a composite character. “One of my favorite moments in that episode is when [Roberts] talks about how he has a son himself and he would just want to know that if the son was in that situation he was being treated like a human being,” Starburry says.
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