Sublime

The idea from a dialogue point of view was, he was a man who sold his soul, so he basically surrendered the sense of I or me. He never refers to himself as I or me; it’s always “a man.” He is a sort of elemental figure and an ancient character who can’t seem to die. As he says in the last episode, “I didn’t speak to anyone for a century.” So what... See more

The fact that in the middle of a multimillion-dollar production we’re doing a 10-minute puppet show, there’s some humor to that. My hope was that we were approaching this problem in a creative way that ultimately did not feel abusive to the audience.