In the basement of stately homes, I dont do much of that.
If so, how?
CAHN:Sure, it is.
And this is one of those events.
DEADLINE: Can you tell me about getting Allison Janney as the Vice President?
Was the character conceptualized first, or were you already hoping to reunite with Janney?
CAHN:So Grace Penn is mentioned in the very first episode.
We were more interested in Kate and what Kate was going through.
I didnt really believe that it was gonna happen.
I couldnt imagine that she would say yes.
We know that story.
We already wrote that story.
That story is ready to go.
Were not going to have a battle among tanks and weapons.
How do those conversations start?
How do they continue?
How do you revive them once they fall apart?
All of that just seemed like something that I wanted to know for my sense of the world.
That is probably true in terms of how were dealing with stories onThe Diplomat.
These arent things that can resolve with ease in any way.
We dont really get to the end of the story here.
DEBORA CAHN:It certainly makes it much more of a single, cohesive narrative.
I loved writing about minutia.
