I knew they were going to give their coats to him, but then Thomas at the very end threw his coat and it landed on Adam's head in rehearsal and we were like, "Done!" Then Adam knew how to catch it with his head. For instance, when everybody throws their coats on Adam who plays Jordan. Some of the fun things that happened were certain details that I didn't even think of, that just came out through rehearsal, which I'm really grateful for. They're just so in it because a lot of them are theater actors so they're used to this.
They were like, "How on earth are you going to do 11 and a half pages in a day?" And they were like, "If you think you can do it, we'll trust you, but we've never seen it done before." We were able to pull it off, which is incredible and that's because a) we had that rehearsal day so we were able to figure out where everything needed to be and b) those actors, each and every one of them is like the first chair of an orchestra. It was a challenge for me it's the most page count I believe that HBO has ever done in a day. You don't often get rehearsal on television because you're shooting five days a week, but this was 17 actors and we had 20 pages basically so we had to bring them in. It was so funny because I directed that episode.
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So it just felt like the natural thing to do it as the series progresses, there's more and more of that. I think the country has moved a little bit more towards conservatism and although both of those characters are not American, they're still grappling with that, they're reckoning with that. It's a totally different type of world so expect those characters to be morally corrupt, but their children don't fully understand that or see that and they struggle with that. When you first met Bart Bass, you weren't sure what you thought about him, but Obi's parents and Aki's dad are conservatives. It was funny, I was writing a scene today for season 2 and I realized it's really interesting that it's more out in the open this time around. So this was just a way to continue that line. There was always some huge secret that they were behind that was causing the drama.
Whether it's like Lily having done something to Serena or Bart Bass and Chuck, Rufus lying to Jenny and Dan about having siblings, there was a lot there. We always talked about that in the original in the writer's room - the big bads every season always turned out to be one of the parents. Max is the one, I think, that has the most reverberating inside of him to deal with because I don't think he's ever had sex with feelings before.
It begins now, but it's going to continue for the second half of the season in a very deep way. These characters were created to look at how they relate to each other and I'd say this really is an evolving storyline for them, how much they grow and change through this experience. It's very fun to watch that moving forward. I really loved how Thomas, Emily, and Evan just really embraced the screwball comedy of that. It's very easy to write about how hard it is to deal with something when it's gone terribly wrong, but actually to have something be very enjoyable and they're still freaking out over it - that's a really fun place to write from. It's just always fun to work with characters that have experienced something good, but still can't handle it really. They're all, like Julien and Obie, dealing with the after-effects and a choice they've made.