‘The Righteous Gemstones’: Holy Roller Comedy Not A ‘Takedown Of Religion’ Says Danny McBride – TCA
focused on protagonists “who believed they were owed something in life,” said the comedy-meister, but his new showabout an opulent megachurch family is about those “who get everything they want” and the damage that can be done.
“The goal isn’t to be takedown of anything,” said McBride at TCA today “when Hollywood takes on religion, they make the mistake of lampooning one beliefs.” “For us, it’s about lampooning hypocrites, people who present themselves in one way, and act differently in another. I don’t think that’s something that’s relevant to the world of religion and televangelism, but the world we live in: People who present themselves one way on social media and present themselves in another way,” added McBride.
McBride said that in the first pass of the script, the series followed a minister who has an affair and is trying to salvage his ministry against the Gemstones who were going to be the bad guys. “Within three days of writing, it was the Gemstones who became more interesting,” said McBride who is not only the star Jesse Gemstone, but the series EP and director as well.
Devine told the press he grew up Catholic, and while growing up, he was “jealous of my friends who went to mega-churches. They had rock climbing walls and got to play video games. All we had was a hard bench.”
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