When the writers “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw grew up, they fell in love with shows like “Broad City”, “Friends”, “Girls” and “Living single”, whose family friendships have become a plan to facilitate the navigation factories of your 20 years.
“”[I was like] I really hope, not only do I have this work, but that I have this group of friends, these people to come and get me when I fall, “Shaw told Thewrap, noting the comfort of even knowing that his favorite characters did not know everything.” They are always adolescence and understand what your life looks like at this time of life.
This fidelity to driving or DIE is at the heart of the new FX comedy series, “adults” – but just without dream jobs, as a group of friends – Samir (Malik Elassal), Issa (Amita Rao), Anton (Owen Thiele), Billie (Lucy Freyer) and Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) country in the country in Samir’s jobs in the country of Samire in the country in his parents in his internships and his jobs in Samire their RV.
“Even if they are not in the cool place [and] They don’t have the nice job, you say to yourself: “I want to be in this house with them. I want to be the sixth roommate ” said Kronengold. “What they have is magical and even more special than the frills with which you could associate or hope out of your New York years.”
Samir, Issa, Anton and Billie make up the four main “adults”, who came to the group either from a childhood friendship or a university life situation, or, in the case of Paul Baker – which becomes the fifth roommate – a hanging that has warmed up to the whole group.
“All these characters are inspired by our friends – of jumping, we knew that it would feel true if we borrow elements from real people,” said Shaw. “We have a number of Issa in our lives, we have a number of Billies and Paul Baker, of which our friends date, and we are all obsessed as a group and desperate they will remain.”
According to Kronengold, the group of actors – most of whom have no television credits – were narrowed by a call of 30,000 submissions, which noted that the casting team hoped not only to find actors who could play the roles, but who, at a certain level, identified with these roles. While Shaw noted that the actors are more “evolved” and “sophisticated” than their characters, “it is very easy for them to draw and bring a life experience, the love of friends from these roles,” said Kronengold.
The “unexpected magic” of the series, however, occurred when Kronengold and Shaw brought together the five players to film the “adult” driver. “We gathered them to shoot a pilot, and they became the best friends with each other,” said Shaw. “You watch a group of friends play a group of friends, and I think the chemistry he really has who makes you want to sit on the sofa with them.”
The opening sequence of “adults” prepares the terrain so that the disorder of generation Z comes: friends are in the metro when Issa spots a rider locating her eyes with her, masturbating. While Samir, Anton and Billie try to defuse the situation, Issa tries to do what Shaw calls a “political declaration” by masturbating.
“She tries to show this man what it is to be objectified, but, as she shouts and masturbates and the guy masturbates, what you realize is that at a certain point, these are just two people who touch the metro now,” said Shaw. The disturbing interaction then cuts the friends who walk outside, ensuring Issa that she was courageous and did the right thing.
“I think the n ° 1 sentence that we say with our friends is” was it bad? “” Said Shaw, adding that even if the characters take “all the big swings in adulthood”, they always have “the comfort of coming back with your people.”
The first episode of “adult” plunges into a heavier subject when Samir, invited by a former classmate who is a position against an abusive boss, calls for his past relationships to ensure that he does not cross the line between consent and sexual assault. Despite a past connection admitting that there was once she was probably too drunk to consent, her friends assure her that he is “on the spectrum of men, a little slut boy”.
“There are many complicated problems in the world today and we would not pretend to prescribe answers or approach them from a high level point of view, but what we know are these five characters and all the silly ways they follow these things,” said Kronengold, noting that in the quest for Samir to try to be a good person, he ends up dragging a handful of women. “In practice, this is really the way these characters manage these kinds of situations and look at their best intentions that really slip into these ridiculous results.”
“Adults” welcomes several high -level guests – from Julia Fox to Charlie Cox in Ray Nicholson – during her first season in roles that Kronengold and Shaw said launch the group for a loop. The creators hope to continue to welcome in guest stars in a potential season 2, in which they are all.
“We are going to watch them grow a little during the season, but take a lot of steps back,” said Shaw. “We want to see them all go out. We want to see them all fall in love. We want to see them navigate all the moments while you start to get these real jobs and lose these real jobs. ”
“Adults” broadcasts new episodes on Tuesday on FX. All episodes are available in stream from May 29.
