Amy Lippman, who co-created both the original 1994 version of “Party of Five” and the Freeform reboot, has been humbled by her work on the new drama. “I don’t think I realiz…
“I don’t think I realized until I got into that [writers’] room with people who had a very different life expeience than my own what value it was to have [that],” Lippman said during the Television Critics Assn. press tour panel Friday. “I can tell these stories, but they actually come from a different place when they come from people who have lived them.
“This is a much better idea than the original,” she said of the Freeform reboot. “When we looked at the Salinger family in the 1990s, they were having an experience that was unique and their own and others couldn’t relate to it [This] is an experience that’s not unique to them: It’s happening across the country. … [We] have an opportunity to look at these kids as kids growing up and learning things about themselves in an extraordinary situation. I wish it was less extraordinary.
“It’s not just Caucasian people who have an attitude about people coming into the country. There are people here of Latinx backgrounds who also have issues about what it means to welcome a community of people who haven’t gotten into the country the way they did,” Lippman said. “We are trying not to pass judgement on this family and how they got here. We’re saying, ‘This happens. Let’s look at the fallout.
Additionally, Lippman noted, the children had no choice in the matter: In the show, the Acosta parents immigrated illegally into the United States with their eldest son who was just a small child at the time. That character, Emilio , is an adult when the show opens, but his younger siblings were born in the country and some of them don’t even speak Spanish.
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