'House of Lies' EP Explores Her First Writing and Directing Opportunities
Showtime's comedy series House of Lies is winding down, currently in its fifth and final season, and will end it all on June 12. In what's almost a sendoff of sorts, the series takes the shoot to Cuba and becomes the first scripted American series to do so since the restoration of diplomatic relations.
Speaking with Collider, executive producer Jessika Brosiczky calls it bittersweet. "There’s a sadness because it was such a gratifying experience. We got to push all the boundaries and cross all sorts of lines. And working with [Don] Cheadle, Kristen Bell, Ben Schwartz and Josh Lawson, there could not have been a more familial, professional environment."
She's honest in where she expected the series to go from the beginning. "We knew that we were exploring how characters could find a soul in a very soul-sucking and dark world, which is the world of finance and the 1%. How do you find meaning and a true journey for all of these characters is the whole reason it excited us to do a character story in this world, from the beginning."
Borsiczky dipped her toes into the world of writing and directing for the first time on the series. " I’ve always secretly been writing, as my aspiration. Producing just took up the full time. Once House of Lies started going, I had some writing that, at that point, I showed Showtime and Matthew Carnahan, and there was a lot of responsiveness to me, as a writer.
"I was already in the writers’ room almost all of the time, but I got to really participate in the writers’ room with a new influence. It felt natural and supported, and I felt really lucky to get my first produced writing with the collaboration of the writers’ room."
On directing, " I felt really comfortable and really ready, and so excited to take it on. I know it’s all about learning more and trying more, but every day that I was directing this episode of House of Lies, which was my first ever chance to direct, I would wake up about three or four hours early because it was like Christmas morning."
Source: Collider
