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Jed Mercurio
Jed Mercurio
British Writer
Born: 1966
Because Drama Duty People Think You
Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson
Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing. Jed Mercurio
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Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories. Jed Mercurio
You Gives Sci-Fi Scope Stories Grand
I would compare my 'Frankenstein' to Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' The monster in the original Fifties version of 'The Fly' was a crude, anatomical combination of man and insect, whereas Cronenberg's version exploited knowledge of DNA to depict him as a transgenic chimera. Jed Mercurio
Knowledge Man Fly Monster Frankenstein Insect Would Cronenberg Remake Crude Combination Him Version Depict Whereas Exploited Fifties Original Compare
In 'Bodies,' we had a lot of gore because it was a medical drama. The gore was authentic. Jed Mercurio
Drama Had Gore Because Lot Authentic Bodies Medical
With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care. Jed Mercurio
Care Doctors Arrest Were Times Wanted Really Show
If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by Frank Huyler, both have themes of cynicism and dysfunction running through them that you won't find in 'ER.' You find it in 'Scrubs,' but because that's a comedy, it gets away with it. Jed Mercurio
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British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different. Jed Mercurio
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There's something very frightening about the vulnerability of mothers and babies. Jed Mercurio
Babies About Something Vulnerability Mothers Very Frightening
It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content. Jed Mercurio
Me Sex Some Scenes Write Emotional Writer Excite Content Because Any Swearing
If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast. Jed Mercurio
Challenges Cooking Pressure Dinner Big Meal Roast Over Like Friends Technical
The world is a horrible place, but no one worries because we have all been pacified by anodyne television in which incorruptible cops solve crimes, crusading lawyers keep the innocent out of prison, and streetwise social workers rescue children from abuse. Jed Mercurio
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There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out. Jed Mercurio
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It was a strange feeling, filming a night scene in Selly Oak High Street with a television crew and famous actors in tow, when twenty years ago, at that time of night, I would've been stumbling around in search of a kebab. Jed Mercurio
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There aren't a lot of political dramas on TV, and those that are tend to be American. Jed Mercurio
Political Dramas Those TV Tend Lot American
We earned the 'Line of Duty' audience's loyalty over a number of years, and I feel privileged to have that. Jed Mercurio
Loyalty Duty Earned Feel Over Audience Line Years Privileged Number
I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters surviving, then it does completely affect the way in which the drama is viewed. Jed Mercurio
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I remember watching TV as a kid, and whenever there was some sort of jeopardy involving the hero, I could reassure myself that they were what I'd call a 'can't-die' character, so everything would be OK. Jed Mercurio
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You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it! Jed Mercurio
You Confused Will Become Drama Say Tell Characters One Thing Kinds Another Because Audience Doing Get Stop Certain Certainly Away Thing
The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.' Jed Mercurio
Book Problems Think Physical About Idea Wrote How Stigma Lot Quite Psychological Bodies Body Appealing
I tell the truth where it's the ethical thing to do, but in terms of entertainment, there's a certain fun and enjoyment that can be added to the experience by a few judicious lies. Jed Mercurio
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I believe that attributing flaws to medical characters makes them not just doctors but something more. It makes them people. Jed Mercurio
People Doctors Believe Characters Something More Makes Just Them Flaws Medical
I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated. Jed Mercurio
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With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness. Jed Mercurio
You People Darkness Police Expectation Bit Thriller Come Genre Get Away Violence
One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity. Jed Mercurio
Drama One Of The Things Learned Ambiguity Bodies Actor Play Medical Things
Part of me isn't that interested as a person and a viewer in people's personal lives. I'm much more interested in what people do in the workplace and what goals they set themselves. I guess that's why I write a lot of precinct drama. Jed Mercurio
Me People Goals Drama Guess More Write Part Lot Person Personal Personal Lives Interested Themselves Much Viewer Workplace Why Lives Set
I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story. Jed Mercurio
Smart Think Enough Drama Relating Parallels Exactly Know Because Audience Just Just Because Story Mean
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