WEBVTT
1
00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:12.599
Hello, and welcome to Montecito. After Sun said, I'm Christy
2
00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.359
and I want to welcome you into a world of deception.
3
00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.079
You are probably here because you love podcasts, or audio
4
00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.160
books or soap operas. We are about to talk about
5
00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.079
a brand new audio soap opera called Montecito, and we
6
00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.600
are going behind the scenes with executive story editor Andrew
7
00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:37.039
Pemberton Fowler and creator and executive producer of Monacito Grant Rudder. Hey, guys,
8
00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.759
Hey Christy, Hello, Well, I want to let everybody know
9
00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:42.799
that we are going to be breaking down episode two
10
00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.439
of Monacito, and so if you haven't gone back and
11
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.679
listen to episode one and two, make sure that you
12
00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.840
are do that because you are about to get spoilered.
13
00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.240
You're about to get all the dish on what went
14
00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.520
into making episode two happen. And I mean we're just
15
00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.320
thrust right into the action from moment one. This is
16
00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.679
a direct pick up from episode one and Helena throws
17
00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.920
Nina out. I want to know this. The dynamic between
18
00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.760
Helena and Nina is just so well developed. What kind
19
00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:15.319
of conversations did you guys have about what the relationship
20
00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.920
would be between these two women and about who they
21
00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.719
are and how that would affect their relationships.
22
00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.560
I remember talking to Andrew about this and saying, Mina
23
00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.159
has been in Helena's life for over a decade, at
24
00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.200
least thirteen years, because don't forget Mina trap ticking with
25
00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:37.159
the baby thirteen years ago. Basically, these are people who
26
00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:41.560
don't have holidays together. They can't really like the family
27
00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.239
has basically fallen apart. There are glimpses of that throughout
28
00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.280
the season, but no one's close. And they're at this
29
00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.400
public event and their masks are slipping. They're putting on
30
00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.799
a very public face for everyone. This is a big night.
31
00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.560
Nina calls it her big night, but we see that
32
00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.439
it's really a big night for the family. Helene is
33
00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:02.599
incredibly proud of her son and what this means of
34
00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.840
the family legacy, and not even for one night can
35
00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:06.439
they in aalog.
36
00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.199
Helena knows exactly who Mina is, and that's kind of
37
00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.879
what we see right away between them, and I think
38
00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.479
that's why the relationship is so interesting, because Helena never
39
00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.120
wants mistakes Mina for who she knows her to be
40
00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.599
and has known her to be for over a decade.
41
00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.400
And I think that I'm getting to know Mina pretty well.
42
00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.000
Can I just tell you, guys, how I picture her
43
00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.280
and see if that's how you intended. I just see
44
00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:37.000
Mina as this beautiful, very beautiful Latina women. She's maybe short,
45
00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:41.000
but she has a huge presence. And is that how
46
00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.400
you intended for the audience to see her or what
47
00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:44.719
does she look like in your head?
48
00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:50.360
Andrew, she's had a few iterations from the original breakdown
49
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.280
that I read of Mina versus the actress. We ended
50
00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.439
up casting Chelsea Rendaulme, who is fantastic as Mina, and
51
00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.039
she completely flipped our own person option of Mina on
52
00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.719
our heads, and I think gave her so much more
53
00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:08.039
depth and gravitas that was on the page, but it
54
00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.759
just comes out in a completely different way. But I
55
00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.080
will say, when you do write character, Grant and I
56
00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:18.000
wrote these scripts many months ago, so sometimes you have
57
00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.240
one vision of a character in your head, and when
58
00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.199
you go back to write again, that vision stays in
59
00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.840
your head because that was the voice that you were writing.
60
00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.639
Towards, so that when an actor gets.
61
00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.000
It, it adds another dimension. But I will throw the
62
00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.319
rest of that to Grant.
63
00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:40.159
And yeah, Mia originally was European princess kind of vibes.
64
00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.919
She's definitely and in that version of Mina was coming
65
00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.960
from money. My father was a doctor, so she was
66
00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.639
She wasn't quite on Monte see the level, so she
67
00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.599
was always still trying to maintain. But it was more
68
00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:56.800
about her being this narcissist. But the more we got
69
00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.879
into the character, while this is not a Rag's richester
70
00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.319
for her at all, it's someone that audibly sounds different
71
00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.319
from the rest of the cast. It's more forward personality
72
00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.080
than other characters on the show, more forceful. There's definitely
73
00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.720
a lot more goal driven mindset and personality to maintain
74
00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.600
and to keep it to be taken seriously and they're
75
00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.240
going to stand up and notice. Chelsea really put that
76
00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.480
power behind Nina and it really just took off that
77
00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.800
casting that character was so key to the show because
78
00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.639
she has so many different dynamics with so many people,
79
00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.319
and she's not supposed to be someone that we root
80
00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:41.040
for or against. It's up for interpretations, So to ride
81
00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:45.000
that line was super important with who was voicing that character.
82
00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.800
And again I'll echo what Andrew said, Chelsea really knocked
83
00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:48.199
it out.
84
00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:48.480
Of the park.
85
00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.759
And somehow I am just as invested in Deacon and
86
00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.240
Geo's relationship to each other and their scenes, as well
87
00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:02.000
as Helena and Nina, even though they are completely different. Obviously,
88
00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.839
there's a lot going on between Helena and that's it's
89
00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.319
very tense and Deacon and Geo. You go back and
90
00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.360
forth between the see that it's just a whole different feel.
91
00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:12.279
All of a sudden, I'm in the room with them
92
00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.160
alone and it's quiet, and it's an emotional roller coaster.
93
00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:18.120
I don't know how you guys did it.
94
00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.079
I'm glad you picked up on that, because Geo is
95
00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.240
the opposite of Mina. Deacon and Mina are not a
96
00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.519
match for a lot of reasons, but Geo is this
97
00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:33.360
quiet more We learned that he's into holistic medicine and
98
00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.879
does online courses and all this stuff within the kind
99
00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.399
of help wellnets space. And then we've got Mina, who's
100
00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.720
you don't really view her as this kind of like
101
00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.959
meditative beach yoga girl. So it was very much the opposite,
102
00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:48.639
and there was a lot of care put into those
103
00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.160
scenes that you're mentioning with very delicate music. This is
104
00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:58.680
a very delicate relationship. Deacon's busying himself, does Geo need
105
00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.040
a blanker. Should I let fire? It's almost like fidgety,
106
00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:04.519
but we're not seeing it, we're hearing and.
107
00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:05.759
Feel his nerves.
108
00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:06.959
Yes, listen.
109
00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:11.600
Peter did a great job portraying and there's obviously a
110
00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.000
desperation and a longing from both of them, but especially
111
00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:21.920
from Deacon to connect to actually be himself for two seconds.
112
00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.600
There are also some other faults mentioned who actually exist
113
00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.680
in the series. We hear a may mention of Oprah,
114
00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.759
Harry and Meghan get name dropped, and just full disclosure
115
00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.480
that everyone listening. I've been with Grant a little bit
116
00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.240
on this journey. We are great friends. He's one of
117
00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.000
my favorite people in the whole world, and I'm sure
118
00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:41.319
Andrew would be too if I got to know him
119
00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:45.160
a little bit better. But I begged Grant to have
120
00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.560
a couple of lines in this because I knew it
121
00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:48.879
was going to be fantastic. And my line, we're the
122
00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.920
ones about is Oprah. Wives are Harry and Meghan here?
123
00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:54.399
But Andrew, I hear that you wanted those lines to
124
00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:55.720
end up on the cutting room floor.
125
00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:00.199
I didn't want to distract, But again, this is a
126
00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.279
place where real people live. We are co opting it
127
00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.879
of course for dramatic purposes, so it does.
128
00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:07.959
It does make sense at the end of the day.
129
00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:11.199
But those lines weren't in the original scripts. So when
130
00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.560
I heard I think it was the second or third
131
00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.680
cut of the episode and I heard your voice, I
132
00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.920
was like, Grant, I love this because it just adds
133
00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.839
that richness to audio drama that you sometimes don't get.
134
00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.879
Sometimes it's just two people talking.
135
00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.160
You may hear a little atmosphere in the background, but
136
00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:30.680
that's it. So when I heard your voice, I was like,
137
00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.279
oh my god, this world is real. Now it's not
138
00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.800
Pine Valley, it's Montecito. It's very different, very different.
139
00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.319
Yeah, I really wanted something pop culture related, and if
140
00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.399
you ask the average person, what do they know about Montecito,
141
00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.519
it's Harry and Megan and it's Oprah. So that was
142
00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.680
a way to connect with the audience on kind of
143
00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.399
a wink and a nod. There were some street names
144
00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.480
that I remember from being there and checking it out
145
00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.600
a couple times and spending the day, and I was like, Okay,
146
00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:04.199
this is the Golden Quadrangle, Picacco. Yeah, that's there there,
147
00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.600
and that's where all the big homes are.
148
00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:08.839
Well, and it just helps, like you say, make it
149
00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.680
so real that I feel like, next time we go
150
00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.199
to Monasito, I'm going to expect to run into Mina
151
00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:17.079
and then I'll probably run the other way because she
152
00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.319
is so intense. We actually hear her get into full
153
00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.000
on attack mode in episode two. Here one thing I
154
00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.199
was shocked to hear with her call herself suddenly out
155
00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:29.519
of nowhere, missus Deacon Granville. I was like, oh, now
156
00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.919
you're missus Deacon Granville. But she get cut off real
157
00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.799
quick in her moment of theory. There's a taser situation
158
00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.360
that doesn't go well for Mina, and it plays out
159
00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.600
so obviously. I can just picture it in my head
160
00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.519
as it goes down as I'm listening. But there's a
161
00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.879
lot of ways you guys could have gone with that.
162
00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:51.399
How did you end up.
163
00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:55.120
With the taser? It was always a taser.
164
00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.360
I think we did mention a gun, but the gun
165
00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.399
was too much, so we went back to a taser.
166
00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:04.080
But then impost it was like, how do we get
167
00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.919
the sound of a taser? How do we make it effective?
168
00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.600
So there was a lot of back and forth. Because
169
00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:11.919
you need her, you need Nina, but you also have
170
00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.360
to introduce Bethany. Gina you need something dramatic to happen.
171
00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.879
The Taser was all grant, but yeah, getting it realized
172
00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:21.919
was the harder, the hardest part of all.
173
00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:28.000
Yeah, making sure that it translated from mind to a draft,
174
00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.120
to an outline, to a breakdown to a script and
175
00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:34.200
then the actors do what they do and then it
176
00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.320
goes to post it. It's I hope that all these
177
00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.399
little dashes are going to make a line, and thank
178
00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:42.440
god it did. They have. Bethany Gene is looming over
179
00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:46.600
this episode. She's mentioned in the first scene with Helena
180
00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.960
and Mina. There's loud noise over Deacon and Geo, and
181
00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.919
then if you listen closely, yes, when Mina is outside
182
00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.159
being on that glass window and trying to get back
183
00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.720
into the Roman mansion, there's the noise of the helicopter
184
00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.720
and and then she arrives. And it was important to
185
00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:06.759
give Bethany Gina a big entrance, and that moment kicks
186
00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:11.559
off the whole feud between these two leading characters.
187
00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.840
Yeah, I couldn't wait to meet her just because everyone
188
00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:15.919
was talking about her.
189
00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.600
Yeah, that's it is the force for sure.
190
00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.200
Right, and that's kind of soap opera one oh one.
191
00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.320
You never you need to withhold some characters and have
192
00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.879
people talk about them and then you finally meet them
193
00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:30.679
just because you need the build.
194
00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.320
Yeah, there's something about too much school soap entrance, like
195
00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.840
the figure in the dark and it's JJ is like
196
00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.200
Bethany Gina, like he would never expect it, like she
197
00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.120
just can imagine. I'm hoping the listener imagine someone maybe
198
00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.879
I'm Rylet, maybe who they think Bethany Gina resembles. It
199
00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.159
looks like stepping into kind of the light and there
200
00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:51.679
she is.
201
00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.759
Yes, it was an absolute pleasure to meet her and
202
00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.399
from us to hear Mina finally getting what was coming
203
00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.159
to her on that fateful evening. I do not wait
204
00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.639
to hear episode three. Guys, give me a little.
205
00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:12.519
Tea All three the day after.
206
00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:17.440
Yeah, that was fun to write. I really don't want
207
00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:18.399
to give too much way.
208
00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:25.240
Well that deathly Gina and Mina cross paths again and
209
00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:29.279
Mina has some choice words and that's you know, I
210
00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.360
imagine she's there and she's trying.
211
00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.559
It is so much fun to get to know these
212
00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.000
characters a little better from the people who created them.
213
00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.960
And if you out there watching have any questions for
214
00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.720
Grant and Andrew, please post them right down here below.
215
00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.080
If you're watching on YouTube, or make sure that you
216
00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.960
are following the Monacito Facebook page as well, you can
217
00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.279
throw us your questions there and we will cover them
218
00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.519
next time on Montecino after sunset. Thank you all so
219
00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.000
much for joining us. Get ready for episode three, cause
220
00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.600
it's goin' down and we will see you for all
221
00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.440
the behind the sea scoop right here the Assin
1
00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:12.599
Hello, and welcome to Montecito. After Sun said, I'm Christy
2
00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.359
and I want to welcome you into a world of deception.
3
00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.079
You are probably here because you love podcasts, or audio
4
00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.160
books or soap operas. We are about to talk about
5
00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.079
a brand new audio soap opera called Montecito, and we
6
00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.600
are going behind the scenes with executive story editor Andrew
7
00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:37.039
Pemberton Fowler and creator and executive producer of Monacito Grant Rudder. Hey, guys,
8
00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.759
Hey Christy, Hello, Well, I want to let everybody know
9
00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:42.799
that we are going to be breaking down episode two
10
00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.439
of Monacito, and so if you haven't gone back and
11
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.679
listen to episode one and two, make sure that you
12
00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.840
are do that because you are about to get spoilered.
13
00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.240
You're about to get all the dish on what went
14
00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.520
into making episode two happen. And I mean we're just
15
00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.320
thrust right into the action from moment one. This is
16
00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.679
a direct pick up from episode one and Helena throws
17
00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.920
Nina out. I want to know this. The dynamic between
18
00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.760
Helena and Nina is just so well developed. What kind
19
00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:15.319
of conversations did you guys have about what the relationship
20
00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.920
would be between these two women and about who they
21
00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.719
are and how that would affect their relationships.
22
00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.560
I remember talking to Andrew about this and saying, Mina
23
00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.159
has been in Helena's life for over a decade, at
24
00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.200
least thirteen years, because don't forget Mina trap ticking with
25
00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:37.159
the baby thirteen years ago. Basically, these are people who
26
00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:41.560
don't have holidays together. They can't really like the family
27
00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.239
has basically fallen apart. There are glimpses of that throughout
28
00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.280
the season, but no one's close. And they're at this
29
00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.400
public event and their masks are slipping. They're putting on
30
00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.799
a very public face for everyone. This is a big night.
31
00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.560
Nina calls it her big night, but we see that
32
00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.439
it's really a big night for the family. Helene is
33
00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:02.599
incredibly proud of her son and what this means of
34
00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.840
the family legacy, and not even for one night can
35
00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:06.439
they in aalog.
36
00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.199
Helena knows exactly who Mina is, and that's kind of
37
00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.879
what we see right away between them, and I think
38
00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.479
that's why the relationship is so interesting, because Helena never
39
00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.120
wants mistakes Mina for who she knows her to be
40
00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.599
and has known her to be for over a decade.
41
00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.400
And I think that I'm getting to know Mina pretty well.
42
00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.000
Can I just tell you, guys, how I picture her
43
00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.280
and see if that's how you intended. I just see
44
00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:37.000
Mina as this beautiful, very beautiful Latina women. She's maybe short,
45
00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:41.000
but she has a huge presence. And is that how
46
00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.400
you intended for the audience to see her or what
47
00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:44.719
does she look like in your head?
48
00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:50.360
Andrew, she's had a few iterations from the original breakdown
49
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.280
that I read of Mina versus the actress. We ended
50
00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.439
up casting Chelsea Rendaulme, who is fantastic as Mina, and
51
00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.039
she completely flipped our own person option of Mina on
52
00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.719
our heads, and I think gave her so much more
53
00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:08.039
depth and gravitas that was on the page, but it
54
00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.759
just comes out in a completely different way. But I
55
00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.080
will say, when you do write character, Grant and I
56
00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:18.000
wrote these scripts many months ago, so sometimes you have
57
00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.240
one vision of a character in your head, and when
58
00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.199
you go back to write again, that vision stays in
59
00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.840
your head because that was the voice that you were writing.
60
00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.639
Towards, so that when an actor gets.
61
00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.000
It, it adds another dimension. But I will throw the
62
00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.319
rest of that to Grant.
63
00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:40.159
And yeah, Mia originally was European princess kind of vibes.
64
00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.919
She's definitely and in that version of Mina was coming
65
00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.960
from money. My father was a doctor, so she was
66
00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.639
She wasn't quite on Monte see the level, so she
67
00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.599
was always still trying to maintain. But it was more
68
00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:56.800
about her being this narcissist. But the more we got
69
00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.879
into the character, while this is not a Rag's richester
70
00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.319
for her at all, it's someone that audibly sounds different
71
00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.319
from the rest of the cast. It's more forward personality
72
00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.080
than other characters on the show, more forceful. There's definitely
73
00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.720
a lot more goal driven mindset and personality to maintain
74
00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.600
and to keep it to be taken seriously and they're
75
00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.240
going to stand up and notice. Chelsea really put that
76
00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.480
power behind Nina and it really just took off that
77
00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.800
casting that character was so key to the show because
78
00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.639
she has so many different dynamics with so many people,
79
00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.319
and she's not supposed to be someone that we root
80
00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:41.040
for or against. It's up for interpretations, So to ride
81
00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:45.000
that line was super important with who was voicing that character.
82
00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.800
And again I'll echo what Andrew said, Chelsea really knocked
83
00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:48.199
it out.
84
00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:48.480
Of the park.
85
00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.759
And somehow I am just as invested in Deacon and
86
00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.240
Geo's relationship to each other and their scenes, as well
87
00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:02.000
as Helena and Nina, even though they are completely different. Obviously,
88
00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.839
there's a lot going on between Helena and that's it's
89
00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.319
very tense and Deacon and Geo. You go back and
90
00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.360
forth between the see that it's just a whole different feel.
91
00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:12.279
All of a sudden, I'm in the room with them
92
00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.160
alone and it's quiet, and it's an emotional roller coaster.
93
00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:18.120
I don't know how you guys did it.
94
00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.079
I'm glad you picked up on that, because Geo is
95
00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.240
the opposite of Mina. Deacon and Mina are not a
96
00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.519
match for a lot of reasons, but Geo is this
97
00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:33.360
quiet more We learned that he's into holistic medicine and
98
00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.879
does online courses and all this stuff within the kind
99
00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.399
of help wellnets space. And then we've got Mina, who's
100
00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.720
you don't really view her as this kind of like
101
00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.959
meditative beach yoga girl. So it was very much the opposite,
102
00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:48.639
and there was a lot of care put into those
103
00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.160
scenes that you're mentioning with very delicate music. This is
104
00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:58.680
a very delicate relationship. Deacon's busying himself, does Geo need
105
00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.040
a blanker. Should I let fire? It's almost like fidgety,
106
00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:04.519
but we're not seeing it, we're hearing and.
107
00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:05.759
Feel his nerves.
108
00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:06.959
Yes, listen.
109
00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:11.600
Peter did a great job portraying and there's obviously a
110
00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.000
desperation and a longing from both of them, but especially
111
00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:21.920
from Deacon to connect to actually be himself for two seconds.
112
00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.600
There are also some other faults mentioned who actually exist
113
00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.680
in the series. We hear a may mention of Oprah,
114
00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.759
Harry and Meghan get name dropped, and just full disclosure
115
00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.480
that everyone listening. I've been with Grant a little bit
116
00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.240
on this journey. We are great friends. He's one of
117
00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.000
my favorite people in the whole world, and I'm sure
118
00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:41.319
Andrew would be too if I got to know him
119
00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:45.160
a little bit better. But I begged Grant to have
120
00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.560
a couple of lines in this because I knew it
121
00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:48.879
was going to be fantastic. And my line, we're the
122
00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.920
ones about is Oprah. Wives are Harry and Meghan here?
123
00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:54.399
But Andrew, I hear that you wanted those lines to
124
00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:55.720
end up on the cutting room floor.
125
00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:00.199
I didn't want to distract, But again, this is a
126
00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.279
place where real people live. We are co opting it
127
00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.879
of course for dramatic purposes, so it does.
128
00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:07.959
It does make sense at the end of the day.
129
00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:11.199
But those lines weren't in the original scripts. So when
130
00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.560
I heard I think it was the second or third
131
00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.680
cut of the episode and I heard your voice, I
132
00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.920
was like, Grant, I love this because it just adds
133
00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.839
that richness to audio drama that you sometimes don't get.
134
00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.879
Sometimes it's just two people talking.
135
00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.160
You may hear a little atmosphere in the background, but
136
00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:30.680
that's it. So when I heard your voice, I was like,
137
00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.279
oh my god, this world is real. Now it's not
138
00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.800
Pine Valley, it's Montecito. It's very different, very different.
139
00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.319
Yeah, I really wanted something pop culture related, and if
140
00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.399
you ask the average person, what do they know about Montecito,
141
00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.519
it's Harry and Megan and it's Oprah. So that was
142
00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.680
a way to connect with the audience on kind of
143
00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.399
a wink and a nod. There were some street names
144
00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.480
that I remember from being there and checking it out
145
00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.600
a couple times and spending the day, and I was like, Okay,
146
00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:04.199
this is the Golden Quadrangle, Picacco. Yeah, that's there there,
147
00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.600
and that's where all the big homes are.
148
00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:08.839
Well, and it just helps, like you say, make it
149
00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.680
so real that I feel like, next time we go
150
00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.199
to Monasito, I'm going to expect to run into Mina
151
00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:17.079
and then I'll probably run the other way because she
152
00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.319
is so intense. We actually hear her get into full
153
00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.000
on attack mode in episode two. Here one thing I
154
00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.199
was shocked to hear with her call herself suddenly out
155
00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:29.519
of nowhere, missus Deacon Granville. I was like, oh, now
156
00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.919
you're missus Deacon Granville. But she get cut off real
157
00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.799
quick in her moment of theory. There's a taser situation
158
00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.360
that doesn't go well for Mina, and it plays out
159
00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.600
so obviously. I can just picture it in my head
160
00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.519
as it goes down as I'm listening. But there's a
161
00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.879
lot of ways you guys could have gone with that.
162
00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:51.399
How did you end up.
163
00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:55.120
With the taser? It was always a taser.
164
00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.360
I think we did mention a gun, but the gun
165
00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.399
was too much, so we went back to a taser.
166
00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:04.080
But then impost it was like, how do we get
167
00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.919
the sound of a taser? How do we make it effective?
168
00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.600
So there was a lot of back and forth. Because
169
00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:11.919
you need her, you need Nina, but you also have
170
00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.360
to introduce Bethany. Gina you need something dramatic to happen.
171
00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.879
The Taser was all grant, but yeah, getting it realized
172
00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:21.919
was the harder, the hardest part of all.
173
00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:28.000
Yeah, making sure that it translated from mind to a draft,
174
00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.120
to an outline, to a breakdown to a script and
175
00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:34.200
then the actors do what they do and then it
176
00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.320
goes to post it. It's I hope that all these
177
00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.399
little dashes are going to make a line, and thank
178
00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:42.440
god it did. They have. Bethany Gene is looming over
179
00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:46.600
this episode. She's mentioned in the first scene with Helena
180
00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.960
and Mina. There's loud noise over Deacon and Geo, and
181
00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.919
then if you listen closely, yes, when Mina is outside
182
00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.159
being on that glass window and trying to get back
183
00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.720
into the Roman mansion, there's the noise of the helicopter
184
00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.720
and and then she arrives. And it was important to
185
00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:06.759
give Bethany Gina a big entrance, and that moment kicks
186
00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:11.559
off the whole feud between these two leading characters.
187
00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.840
Yeah, I couldn't wait to meet her just because everyone
188
00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:15.919
was talking about her.
189
00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.600
Yeah, that's it is the force for sure.
190
00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.200
Right, and that's kind of soap opera one oh one.
191
00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.320
You never you need to withhold some characters and have
192
00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.879
people talk about them and then you finally meet them
193
00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:30.679
just because you need the build.
194
00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.320
Yeah, there's something about too much school soap entrance, like
195
00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.840
the figure in the dark and it's JJ is like
196
00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.200
Bethany Gina, like he would never expect it, like she
197
00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.120
just can imagine. I'm hoping the listener imagine someone maybe
198
00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.879
I'm Rylet, maybe who they think Bethany Gina resembles. It
199
00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.159
looks like stepping into kind of the light and there
200
00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:51.679
she is.
201
00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.759
Yes, it was an absolute pleasure to meet her and
202
00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.399
from us to hear Mina finally getting what was coming
203
00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.159
to her on that fateful evening. I do not wait
204
00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.639
to hear episode three. Guys, give me a little.
205
00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:12.519
Tea All three the day after.
206
00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:17.440
Yeah, that was fun to write. I really don't want
207
00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:18.399
to give too much way.
208
00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:25.240
Well that deathly Gina and Mina cross paths again and
209
00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:29.279
Mina has some choice words and that's you know, I
210
00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.360
imagine she's there and she's trying.
211
00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.559
It is so much fun to get to know these
212
00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.000
characters a little better from the people who created them.
213
00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.960
And if you out there watching have any questions for
214
00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.720
Grant and Andrew, please post them right down here below.
215
00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.080
If you're watching on YouTube, or make sure that you
216
00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.960
are following the Monacito Facebook page as well, you can
217
00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.279
throw us your questions there and we will cover them
218
00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.519
next time on Montecino after sunset. Thank you all so
219
00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.000
much for joining us. Get ready for episode three, cause
220
00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.600
it's goin' down and we will see you for all
221
00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.440
the behind the sea scoop right here the Assin
