It's not about industry people, and it's not a scenario where you go, 'Who the hell are these people and what planet are they from' It's about real Midwestern families. We're trying to make a show that balances equal parts of heart to humor.
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The casting process wasn't so much about them being a character, which is the normal way. The character had to become them.... You've got to bring 70 percent, 80 percent of yourself to the party. And an actor's either willing to expose themselves like that, or they're not.Fred Goss
We wanted to try to see if we could take something as traditionally structured as a half-hour TV comedy format and actually bring improvisation to it.
Fred Goss
We write a very strong script. The dialogue just doesn't exist within it. We give the script to the actors and they have a few days to chew on it. Dialogue is never written down. It's generated while we're shooting. We'll throw the actors a line and see where they take it. They bring lines of their own.
Fred Goss
The dialogue is all made up on the fly, but it's not all made up by the actors. There are a few writers and Nick and I behind the camera, and we're improvising as much as the actors are.
Fred Goss
We wanted a half-hour comedy that was not joke-driven in the traditional sense. You're laughing because you recognize the characters as people you're possibly related to yourself.
Fred Goss
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