But the stairwell is such a, I hate to say, central feature of the story. If you get that DNA, then you can fudge a lot of other things. You’ve got to make sure you nail casting and their motivations are true to the source material. When you sat down to talk about how this series should look, was there some particular detail that was very important to you that they get right? But it's certainly true that this story is coming out at a great time for us to talk about truth and trust and believing what we see on screens. So, these issues are universal, and they, unfortunately, will probably always be relevant. I grew up in the Cold War, and my dad was a staunch Republican. You can't just tell them the next day, and they're going to change their minds.” I remember reading George Orwell in 1984 and thinking, “That's so silly people are going to remember who their enemies are. But I think a lot of these things, they've been written about for a long time. When you're a dystopian writer, you hope that the near future will look back and say, “That was quaint.” So, it's definitely not my hope. You know, it's wild it's so much more relevant than when I wrote it. Did you know how vitally relevant the issues of this series would be to the headlines we see every day about what we allow people to know and what we want to keep away from them?
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