Jeffery Lieber, Nicki Renna en Joey Falco hebben een interview gehad KSite.com over het nieuwe seizoen van ‘Charmed’ Eerder deze maand kwam deel 1 op hun website.<\/p>\n
The CW\u2019s Charmed has a new trio of \u201cCharmed Ones\u201d in front of the camera as Lucy Barrett\u2018s Kaela joins Melonie Diaz (Mel) and Sarah Jeffery (Maggie) on the show\u2026. but, behind the scenes, there\u2019s also a new Charmed trio in the new showrunning team of Jeffery Lieber, Nicki Renna, and Joey Falco.<\/p>\n
As a new episode titled \u201cYou Can\u2019t Go Home Again\u201d airs tonight (March 18) at 8PM ET\/PT on The CW, KSiteTV\u2019s Craig Byrne had the opportunity to speak with the new Charmed showrunners about their love of the show, new situations for the Charmed Ones, and more, including some talk about a connection to the original series. You can see Part 1 of the interview below, and more is coming next week!<\/p>\n
Can you introduce yourselves and also share what makes Charmed a special show and franchise to you?<\/strong>
\nJEFFREY LIEBER: The thing that is sort of amazing about the show, and specifically this season that we\u2019re launching, is [that] it\u2019s able to do two things at one time, which is one, embrace this \u201canything can happen,\u201d wacky [vibe]\u2026 in the first episode of the season, we turned one of our characters into a [paper] cutout, and we sort of embraced the idea that once an episode, we\u2019re going to do something that weird, and fun, and like, \u201cwhat the hell is going on?\u201d And in the same show, we get to deal with real human things, which is about the connection between sisters, and in this case, how one returns from grief after something horrible happens. There are very few shows that allow you both of those palettes at the same time time, which is incredible creativity on the one side, and a grounded human storytelling on the other.<\/p>\nNICKI RENNA: I come from three girls. Sisters are very important. What I love about this, that is really special to me, is that we have a show about three women that are our leads, but also that they\u2019re sisters, which to me is the juiciest, stickiest sort of inter dynamics amongst characters that you can set up, because to me, there\u2019s just nothing like the power of sisters and their connection. And, we\u2019re exploring not only their relationship between these three women, but they\u2019re exploring their power, both in the real world and in the magical world, in a way that really feels real, complicated, compelling, entertaining, and emotional.<\/p>\n
JOEY FALCO: As someone who kind of came of age as a teenager during the late 90s, obsessively watching Buffy and Charmed when it came out, and shows like that, it\u2019s always been a dream to write for a show in this wheelhouse: this funny, dramatic, emotional, supernatural series. It\u2019s now been four years on this show. It\u2019s been a total dream to finally do that, and then with this season, to do it in a way that\u2019s even more personal than ever, with Jeff and Nicki and I at the at the helm of it. It\u2019s a total dream.
\n<\/p>\nCan you talk about how Kaela has changed the dynamic of the show?<\/strong>
\nJEFFREY: It\u2019s been a revelation. Over the summer, the three of us took the helm and started talking about new character was. We were all committed to making sure that whatever the new energy was, it was fun. And then we got on the casting process and found Lucy [Barrett].<\/p>\nIt\u2019s just amazing when somebody comes into your world, who so embodies the spirit that you want on the show. It\u2019s changed everybody. It\u2019s been amazing to watch the five core actors come together, but it\u2019s also been amazing to see what happens when you drop in something very, very different. It changes everybody else.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve gotten to do scenes this year that are so different than anything that\u2019s happened before, that are so fresh, and that really embrace this idea of \u201cwho you are is often defined by who you\u2019re connected to.\u201d And so, to bring in this person who is not of the magic world\u2026 Mel, Maggie and Macy were all of a certain type of person, and in bringing this girl from Philadelphia, who\u2019s a mechanic and an artist\u2026 it just changed everybody, and by the way, it\u2019s affected the way the set runs. We have such a good time now. That\u2019s been been so much fun.<\/p>\n
What do you think it will take for Harry to be happy again, because we\u2019re going through a \u201cbroody Harry\u201d stage as the season begins?<\/strong>
\nNICKI: When are we not going through a \u201cbroody Harry\u201d stage?<\/p>\nWe asked ourselves the same question at the top of this season, when we were getting together and talking about [the season]. The thing that\u2019s obviously the most difficult is that he\u2019s just lost the love of his life, so we really want to honor that and help show that journey of exploring that grief, and that trauma, and what that means for him. But it was also very important to us that that\u2019s not all of his journey. That\u2019s not all this characters about. It was really time to define Harry Greenwood separately from the Charmed Ones and from Macy. That\u2019s really what we\u2019ve been trying to do this season, and I think that people will be really shocked and surprised at the places we take him in order for him to sort of find what that identity is and what his purpose is, but he will find it.<\/p>\n
Can you talk about Maggie\u2019s turn into \u201cMaggie the Demon Slayer\u201d mode, and is that her way of coping, much like \u201cKiss and Tell Mel\u201d would be?<\/strong>
\nJOEY: Yes, exactly. With Maggie, we\u2019re doing a ,ind of reversal with Mel and Maggie, based on sort of how they both responded to their mother\u2019s death in the pilot versus how they\u2019re responding to Macy\u2019s death now in Season 4, and we\u2019re seeing Maggie turn sort of inward and become unable to process the grief of it, and because of that, she\u2019s looking out, and she\u2019s having this terrible, awful, unhealthy coping mechanism, which is violence, and the easiest victim for that violence is the demon population, because there\u2019s no victim there when she\u2019s out there doing it.<\/p>\nWe\u2019re see her go to some really dark places that she struggles to get past that, and as Jordan struggles to be sort of the unwilling partner in that situation. What does that mean for their relationship, if he\u2019s realizing she\u2019s unhealthy, and she\u2019s not really listening to reason? How do you, as a partner in a relationship like that\u2026 how do you get your partner over that grief? That\u2019s going to be their struggle and their journey for a really significant part of the season.<\/p>\n
And will we be seeing the surviving Charmed Ones\u2019 powers continue to evolve?<\/strong>
\nJEFFREY: Yes. Each Charmed One gets the major upgrade, and they\u2019re really fun. We will not tell you what they are, but they\u2019re coming. The ones that will say we just that Mel\u2019s power upgrade comes out of her trying to turn backwards and reconnect with who she was in Season 1, which is a Time Witch, and in her attempts to figure out how to get back to those original powers, that\u2019s the doorway into what\u2019s next for her.<\/p>\nWe have three very versatile actresses and we\u2019re trying as hard as possible to lean into the things that they love to do. Part of our going to to Maggie as a fighter is that is that Sarah is such an adept physical actress, and so we were like, \u201cokay, how do we use that?\u201d In sum, everybody gets a power upgrade this season, and they all come as a surprise to them along the way.<\/p>\n
Speaking of going back, I know that Joey Falco wrote and Rupert Evans directed an upcoming episode called \u201cThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Sandwich.\u201d How far in the past, exactly, are the Charmed Ones going to go?<\/strong>
\nJOEY: I don\u2019t know that we\u2019re going to say exactly where they go with this episode, but I will say it was inspired by Sarah Jeffery, who over the summer specifically requested to go back to this particular period. In that spirit, we came up with this episode to do that. It ends up being a whole lot of fun, and it was a absolute blast to make, and everyone had a lot of fun doing it, but I\u2019m not going to say where they go, just yet.<\/p>\nCan you talk about the bar and how it introduces new possibilities for the show, especially as far as weird creatures go?<\/p>\n
NICKI: I would have to say that the bar is hands-down probably one of our favorite new elements of this season. In addition to just being visually stunning\u2026 our crew just really killed it\u2026 we were so excited about it, because it really opens up our world. We\u2019ve been really wanting to do that for for a while now, in terms of showing other elements in the magical world, with communities of creatures.<\/p>\n
This bar sort of a neutral ground. It\u2019s where anyone can come and grab a drink, or go on a date, and have fun and know that for the most part, they\u2019re not going to run into any kind of conflict or be from anyone else. So people from every single magical community could come and we see that and we\u2019ll get to see that it\u2019s really sort of a colorful, very visual display of all the creatures as the season goes on.<\/p>\n
Inevitably, it\u2019s also a place where things are going to go down, because Roxy is involved, \u2013 she has her hand in a lot of different cookie jars -and we end up bringing a lot of the action and the conflict there. It\u2019s a really fun, cool place where you\u2019re gonna see everything from big singing numbers, to explosive fights, to love scenes\u2026 it\u2019s a backdrop for everything.<\/p>\n
JOEY: And we should say, our art team led by Production Designer Ken Rempel and Set Decorator Alida Jung, they went to town on this bar, and designed something beyond our wildest dreams. It\u2019s just been a fantasy to step into it and see this place that they built. We are just so lucky to have that art department working on the show.<\/p>\n
JEFFREY: Behind the scenes, you don\u2019t realize how many questions come up when you create a bar full of magical creatures. Eevery department came to us and said, \u201cwell, what about this, or that? Who has horns? How do we deal with that? What kind of drinks are they?\u201d At the end of the season, the three of us are gonna go franchise this out and just take it out in the world, because we\u2019ve now learned more about running a magical bar than anyone would ever want to know.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re coming up on the 25-year anniversary of the original Charmed. If the show gets a fifth season, can we look forward to any sort of tribute to that anniversary?<\/strong>
\nJOEY: I think people should stay tuned to what happens this season, and hope for the best.<\/p>\nJEFFREY: We are committed to putting the universes together, whether it be this season or next.<\/p>\n
JOEY: I think people who enjoy the original show will not be disappointed by the end of this season.<\/p>\n
What do you most hope fans get out of watching Charmed Season 4?<\/strong>
\nJEFFREY: As I said earlier, this season is a real combination of the things that worked in the first three seasons, and then us three adding our completely wacky take on things. The hope is that this season is filled with surprises, and fun ones, that cause the people who\u2019ve been with us for three seasons to go, \u201coh my God, I remember that!\u201d and for the people who are new to the show to be surprised and thrilled along the way.<\/p>\nNICKI: I want to echo that. We really wanted to honor and have fun with the show, as a series, and make sure that there were callbacks, and we tie things together, and we sort of clean things up, so that\u2019s definitely going to be there. The other thing I would add is that I think that from an emotional standpoint, from the character journeys that that we put our characters on the season, I really hope that people watch the show and they can relate to what our girls and Harry and Jordan are going through in a way that sort of that helps them, or that makes them not feel alone, or that makes them realize that \u201cI\u2019m not the only one.\u201d We\u2019re dealing with themes of not only grief and trauma, but family, and re-emerging into a new phase of your life having to figure out who you are after either a loss or after a period of searching, and I think that we\u2019re doing it in a way that\u2019s complicated and messy, but also hopeful, so I hope that people watch the season and can really find something that speaks to them and helps them in their life.<\/p>\n
JOEY: That\u2019s beautiful. I think those are terrific answers. I just hope it doesn\u2019t suck. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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