Their latest project,The Hot Zone,debuts tonight on NatGeo.
Shes too… hard.
Whats the reason this character needs to be gay?
Credit: Amanda Matlovich/National Geographic
We never get these kinds of notes questioning our straight male characters.
Theyre likable just because theyre on a mission.
And they certainly dont need a reason to be straight.
At first, the idea of putting pen to paper about our experiences seemed like an easy assignment.
But as any writer knows, thinking about writing and actually writing are two very different things.
This topic accompanies many bottomless mimosa brunches across L.A. We werent seen as threats.
And we were fortunate to have had many great mentors who saw us as true assets.
After all, it is a marriage of a certain kind.
We were both terrified we were going to get fired and it would be the other persons fault.
We went at it, toe-to-toe, for an hour, neither relenting or yielding.
In fact, weve always been brutally upfront with each other.
The truth we learned after the $200 an hour fee is that the real issue was trust.
Now, the great thing about a writer/producer team is that you have a built-in editor.
The worst thing is that you have a built-in editor.
A writers tendency is to believe he or she is right.
But then, how do you break a deadlock?
And inevitably we find it.
So basically, the secret to our 20-year partnership, it seems, is being stubborn.
As for that leading gay guy on a online grid drama… soon.
