When Ashley met Gordon, she was walking down the street and he was driving his car. The crush would be enough to start a romantic comedy. Of course, in this peculiar fiction, there are two helpless characters, a flirtation that includes a bare breast and a run over dog. Colin From Accounts (last week’s premiere on Universal +), in fact, owes his title to the debts that the canine leaves them, and logically, an opportunity for his protagonists to fall in love in contemporary Sydney. “The premise stems from that accident, but we wanted it to feel real organic and believable. They are two people who otherwise would not have met or been together, ”Patrick Brammall, creator and star of the series along with Harriet Dyer, his real-life partner, tells Página / 12.
In addition to showing a cute Border terrier in a wheelchair, the eight episodes of the installment delve into the life of a medical student stuck with an ex and this forty-year-old owner of a craft brewery bar. The question about why Ashley and Gordon should be together is answered between philosophical dialogues about the beauty of a topless or jokes about a vet named Ivette. Actions in Colin from Accounts run surprisingly naturally for this class of products. The reasons are obvious. “We don’t run over a dog like we do on the show, but there are some sequences or things that we told ourselves that we definitely put in the show. I ran over a possum once, that happens a lot in Australia,” the woman concedes. “I saved with a kangaroo on a farm. He was of medium size, had gotten caught in a fence and I helped him untwist. When I realized he was holding it by the tail. Luckily he wasn’t a giant boxing kangaroo. We could say that I saved an animal, she killed an opossum and in the series no animal was harmed”, says the other half of the project.
-This is an Australian romantic comedy. Was that search conscious?
Harriet Dyer: – Definitely. We grew up watching series and movies of the genre, in which relationships are at the heart of the story. But we had never seen it in our country, they always happen in the United States or England. We had work or family comedies, but never a romcom, so we went to fill that void.
-The characters seem to be projecting their own romantic comedy movie. They agree?
HD: -Not so much. I think they don’t know exactly where they are. Ok, so in the end we have a vibrant scene in an airport where they fight for what they want. The thing with these two is that they want to do it their way. They like each other but doubt it will work. They look for reasons to know if the other is “their better half”. We as creators, along with the audience, projected the idioms of the genre, but it was very important to us that Ashley and Gordon didn’t do it explicitly. they live it.
Patrick Brammall: -It feels more real when they are in a typical and romantic moment and then that breaks. There is the grace, it feels more down to earth and less sweetened.
-For this pairing to work, what would Harriet Dyer recommend to Ashley and what would Patrick Brammall recommend to Gordon?
HD: -I would tell him to relax and stop worrying. If Gordon is the one, he’s going to know.
PB: -What would you say to Gordon? How has he fared so far? Did it work for you? Not much, so listen to the little man inside.
HD: -And marry that girl now (laughs).
-In the first scene Gordon is seen wearing a Midnight Oil T-shirt. What song by an Australian band could be perfect for this love story?
PB: –I love Midnight Oil, that’s why. To use the image from the Head Injuries album we asked for the rights and the band said yes. At the end of the pilot he wears a shirt from another band that we also love: The Whitlams.
HD: -I think we spent a lot of money on the opening theme. It’s called “Chain Reaction” and it’s by John Farnham. We chose it because it fits perfectly. A postman leaves a fence open. A dog that escapes from a house. She takes a shot of tequila in the morning. He has been driving distracted. And all those elements were concatenated so that these two come together.
PB: -John Farnham is a legend in Australia and the song has an upward rhythm that makes you happy. That is what we were looking for.
-The two are single but they are not necessarily alone. How important are friends and family, the other characters in the relationship between Ashley and Gordon?
HD: -A lot. And it happens in real life. You learn more about a person when you meet their inner circle than from what someone tells you or shows you. They fill in the blanks.
PB: -As soon as they know each other, they respectively get to know their friends and families. They met as in a nice anecdote to share. Which is perfectly believable. That’s why the others want to know the other part of the story.
-Besides you, obviously, what other performers would be perfect to play Ashley and Gordon?
H.D.: -Elijo a Ryan Reynolds.
PB: -So I said Blake Lively. I hope they stay together (laughs).
2023-07-24 03:16:23
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