Por que a Páscoa aparece tão cedo na série de TV?

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Em American Gods (livro), o personagem da Páscoa aparece apenas algumas vezes na história: uma vez quando quarta-feira está tentando recrutá-la, e depois (se bem me lembro) mais tarde para

take Shadow down from the tree where he's been hanging.

Em American Gods (programa de TV), a Páscoa aparece muito mais cedo na história - no final da primeira temporada, o que corresponde a um ponto muito mais antigo do romance do que sua primeira aparição lá. Embora ela tenha estado em apenas um episódio até agora, parece que ela está preparada para desempenhar um papel muito mais importante no programa de TV do que no romance.

Por que seu personagem foi expandido e levado adiante, tanto?

  • De quem foi a decisão? Gaiman? Verde e mais completo? Alguém mais?
  • Alguém falou sobre o motivo, por exemplo? em entrevistas? Foi para mostrar Kristin Chenoweth e sua capacidade de atuação o mais rápido e possível? Eles achavam que a Páscoa era um personagem subutilizado e deveria ser expandida, como Mad Sweeney e Salim?
por Rand al'Thor 01.04.2018 / 18:30

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Houve uma intenção positiva (do showrunner Bryan Fuller e do escritor Michael Green) de ter "vozes femininas" mais proeminentes no programa do que no livro.

More of the female voice?

You have to. Because the book is a sausage party. We wanted to have not only Laura represented but to tell Bilquis’ story as well. We have a wonderful episode with Eostre and Kristen Chenoweth playing that role. It wasn’t so much as a gender agenda as much as it was, we need more points of view in this story.

American Gods: Bryan Fuller interview

Houve, segundo o ator que retratou a Páscoa, o desejo de oferecer uma história de fundo adicional ao personagem dela. Gaiman evidentemente aprovou.

Did he [Bryan Fuller] tell you what part he wanted you to play? Were you guessing as you were reading?

KC: No, in fact I wasn’t even sure he wanted me—I thought maybe he wanted my opinion. He said, “What do you think about creating the role of Easter?” And, I went, “Oh no. I can’t play Easter, no.” That’s iconic. I mean, she doesn’t speak a lot, but she does very important things. It’s her presence. I said, “She’s just described very differently.” He said, “I want to approach it through these couple angles. I want to unleash and unlock her past.” Then, he kind of explained to me how he saw it with Neil’s blessing too. Then, I went, “Oh. I’m in.”

Jesus comes to Kristin Chenoweth in this week’s American Gods

Gaiman aparentemente não apenas aprovou a decisão de expandir os papéis, mas era, de fato, algo que ele mesmo desejava ao escrever o romance original, mas teve que se sacrificar devido a questões de extensão.

“For us, it was wanting to have a more balanced voice on the show,” said Fuller. “The book has a limited amount of page count in order to tell its story, and if the female characters were fleshed out in a way that Shadow and Wednesday were fleshed out, it would be quite the tone. Neil didn’t have the real estate, and we did as a TV series. Michael and I both love writing for women, and exploring female characters. It just felt like it was absolutely necessary, and there wasn’t ever any choice in the matter.”

In fact, the expansion of Bilquis and Easter were part of the first conversation the duo ever had with Gaiman. Fuller said, “It went to our first conversations with Neil, the idea that this series was going to take a book we love and accordion it out. We asked him, ‘What do you think about expanding those two roles, especially, being in the beginning?’ and his eyes lit up with interest, because those are characters he wanted to do more with himself, but he couldn’t as a first-time novelist [Editor’s note: American Gods wasn’t Gaiman’s first novel] that was already writing a book that was probably frustratingly too long for his editors.”

BRYAN FULLER AND MICHAEL GREEN ON AMERICAN GODS’ WOMEN, S2, AND MOVING BEYOND THE BOOK

    
01.04.2018 / 18:53