The creators of The Diplomat knew what would happen after that wild ending
What a time for Netflix’s hit political thriller to return. Days before the election, season two of Netflix diplomat play the main role Keri Russell when Kate Wyler, the US ambassador to the UK caught up in the political crisis, attacked the streaming platform. [Spoilers ahead]. At the end of the six-episode second season, Kate learns that the mastermind behind the maritime bombing and causing the events in the series is not Russia or the British Prime Minister, but US Vice President Grace Penn, live action in this series. Oscar and Emmy Award winner Allison Janney. Talk about an October surprise.
On the new episode of Still watchinghost Hillary bus And Chris Murphy chat with the creator and executive producer of diplomat Debora Cahn about how they created the shocking ending to season two, in which president William Rayburn (Michael McKean) dies after discovering Penn’s plot—making the evil Grace Penn the new President of the United States.
“I like to start the season with a plan, but then throw it in the trash as soon as possible,” Cahn said—“if one of the writers has a better idea, and they usually do.”
Cahn and her writing team considered what it would mean to craft a storyline that ends with an elderly president dying while in office—a plot twist that might feel a little too close to home just a few minutes later. last month. “We think that would send the wrong message right before the election,” she said. How lucky for diplomatAmerican politics took a different turn. “We did not foresee this particular episode happening in the real world,” Cahn said. Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for president.
There are other real-world political consequences included diplomat also. Hillary ClintonIt had been on her mind “from the beginning of the series,” Cahn said, and Janney said Vanity fair that she partly based her personality on the former Secretary of State. “It’s Hillary Clinton, but it’s also Samantha Power And Susan Rice,” Cahn said. “And certainly Kamala Harris, who, when I first developed this series, had just been chosen as Biden’s running mate. There’s a lot about Kate VP’s storyline that comes from the casting of Kamala Harris.”
As for where season three will take Kate and Grace Penn, Cahn has some ideas, but notes that the direction depends on how things play out with next week’s presidential election. “I don’t know what country we’ll be living in a week from now,” she said. So we try to keep ourselves a little open about the possibility of continuing to have a conversation with the world that we’re in.”
