The masterminds behind SchittsCreek explain the unlikely origins of Johnny Rose
“We thought, what if that could be funny?” said Dan. So he and Eugene flip-flopped Basinger’s scenario:kicks off with Johnny being swindled out of his fortune earned as the head of a Blockbuster-like video-rental franchise. “The family bought the town as a joke because it had this terrible name,” Dan explained, ”and it’s the only asset left after everything gets repossessed, because the government didn’t see any value in it….
Explained Eugene: “Everything had to be relatively straight and not too comical with Johnny, as the guy who’s trying to hold everything together and give everybody optimism that they’ll make it out of [Schitt’s Creek] one day—to not panic, not get too excitable. That was kind of an exciting thing for me. It’s not something I got to do too much over my career.”
“He got a kick out of that one,” conceded Eugene. Another season one story line had the not-incredibly athletic Eugene running throughin his businesswear—take after take. “A lot of running in dress shoes,” Eugene said drolly.“But it’s gotten nicer over the years,” said Eugene, pointing out that the story line high was Johnny getting to sing alongside his wife’s a cappella group, the Jazzagals, in the show’s fourth season.
True, there have been a few times when Eugene nixed an idea—for example, a scene in which a depressed Johnny screams off a cliff. But for the most part, Eugene has stepped back and let his son steer the show. “I have to trust [that] his instincts are the right instincts, and certainly they’ve been the right instincts for the good of the show,” he said.as one of the best series on television—and one of those rare programs that gets better with age.
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