Yeah, on the podcast, the guy says they tried to have them do Russian accents or some sort of eastern European, but it felt too forced to have them use accents as they would over-act to compensate for not being native Russian speakers. It did not pull me out at all. Such an amazing show.
watched the first two eps the other night, sounds like it stays pretty horrific all the way through, so that's stressful
Yep, very true. But it's definitely worth the watch and at least you don't have to wait each week agonizing over what's going to happen next, you can just get it over with lol
There's a picture of Lyudmilla on the /r/ChernobylTV reddit and it's crazy how similar looking the actress they got to portray her is. It's pretty heartbreaking even seeing her real face, so I didn't link it here but I recommend looking it up.
Interview with Craig Mazin. Haven't had time to finish reading this yet, but it's great so far. HBO’s Chernobyl is a terrific miniseries. Don’t accept it as the whole truth.
Great interview; the below I didn't know. Really helps cement the fact how dramatizing certain events is incredibly important for the show, or else it'll get really boring, and nobody will want to watch that. As long as it sticks close enough, is all that matters "For instance, Legasov was not in that courtroom. The truth is he was not there. But I can’t tell the story without him being there because nobody’s going to want to watch that. They know this guy; they want to hear from him. But it’s important, then, for me to go on the podcast and say, “Okay, but in reality, here’s the real truth-truth, which is not narratively interesting.” So in the context of what you’ve seen, you’re now interested in going further and getting more. And that stuff is not a story. That stuff is just truth."
weird that the article title in that post isn't the name of the article when you go the site...? i chuckled at the "still" since he's been dead for 25 years so it's not like he just made these statements, but the article itself doesn't have the same title so i can't really poke fun, which is a shame