: As I’m the sole writer, I invite all my cast – and the crew too – to let me know their thoughts on their characters and the story. : Does Julie provide you with any feedback on her character or is this written completely by you ? Shona is a well-rounded character and there are quite a few moving moments – and Julie knows how to hit the gas and when to hit the brakes instinctively. Julie was the first actress I reached out to audition for the role of Shona and she nailed it right out of the gate. To me, casting is like a jigsaw puzzle you move the pieces around, discard some, and pick up new ones, until you’ve got the picture you want. Keating (who was actually reading for someone else at the time). I think in that same audition we read John M. The audition was part of a table read where I was auditioning other actors for other roles too. : A mutual friend introduced us when she heard I was looking for a Trans actress. : How did Julie become involved in the project? Was there an audition process involved in her character? The timing is incredible for this project thanks to the torch being lit by Orange Is The New Black and Transparent, but that’s all it is. Trans people were being marginalized and ignored – or worse, cast as Circus freaks – and I knew that there was far more to their story than was being shown. For so long, all we saw of Trans people on TV were those titillating “I Dated A Woman Who Was A Man” episodes of Jerry Springer. It’s just the first of them to become a reality. Gen Zed isn’t the first script I’ve written with a Trans character in it. : I’d wanted to do a story with a Trans woman in it for a number of years. : It seems like writers are rushing to cast Trans women into their movies how did you decide to have a person who is transgender as part of the series? Rik Mayall, bless your soul, you are sorely missed. Cameron’s bad poetry was inspired by Rik’s bad poetry, and Huey is a slightly less violent Vyvyan. I did lean slightly on two characters from The Young Ones for elements of two of the Gen Zed characters. : I wanted a diverse cast to reflect the diversity of human life. : When you were in the creative process for Gen Zed, how did you decide on the mix of characters? The show itself is inspired by two UK comedies: The Young Ones and Spaced. But they’re generally mash-ups of personalities. : There are always elements of people I meet in the characters I create because authenticity is very important to me. : Are the individual characters based on anyone that you may know or have met? He’s played by a very dashing English actor who I have a unique love/hate relationship with. Quillam himself is a mystery he plays online video games with the gang but no one knows who he actually is. : It’s our designer/animator Alex Bradley’s unique take on the all-seeing eye – but with added references to the larger spectrum of Human sexual identity that is generally ignored. More people are staying at home long after they would have moved out in previous generations. Politics have become increasingly polarized. The economy is crap four year colleges are too expensive for a lot of people to attend so they’re going to two year schools. That led me to start wondering about what it was like for people having grown up completely immersed in tech and how they make their way through the world. No, I’d gone out on a date with a girl who I’d met on OKCupid and she showed me that she had something like 200 unread messages and it got me thinking about how disposable dating had become. Hayden tells us more:Ĭlaire-Channel Media : So they met as online gamers so they millennials I’m assuming, First of all, how did you come up with the idea of Gen Zed? Although the rough cut is for our eyes only, ok…my eyes only…it gives you a glimpse at the story board version of an animated series and the work it takes to go from pencil to final product. Gen Zed -Zed being the British pronunciation of the letter Z, thus Generation Z, – is a funny, quirky show aimed directly at the foreheads of the millennials.Ĭlaire-Channel Media had the opportunity to interview creator, writer and director Hayden Black as well as get a first look at the rough draft of the first episode. So goes the introduction to a new animated series created by Goodnight Burbank’s Hayden Black and it’s the first American animated series featuring a transgender actress in a lead role. They grew up, and now they wondered why they even bothered. They are not Gen-X and they don’t want to be Gen-Y, so they decided to move in together and call themselves Gen Zed. They met online as gamers, a Trans girl, a train-wreck, a troublemaker and a trustafarian.
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