He wanted to infuse humor into the television adaptation. The question was, what was that dialogue going to sound like? “If you step back from it, the events of the book are very dark,” says Yockey. “How do you take a very internal book and externalize it?” Yockey’s idea was to create a mind palace where the series’ lead character, Cassie (played by Kaley Cuoco, also an executive producer), could talk out the case with the sexy murder victim (Michiel Huisman). “On television, you don’t want to watch someone sit on a bed and think,” says Yockey. When Steve Yockey read Chris Bohjalian’s mystery novel about a flight attendant who wakes up hungover in a hotel room next to a dead body, he was faced with a dilemma. “His race determines how he’s walked through life, and that adds such a fascinating layer to his character.” Though the show is true to the structure of the book series, Van Dusen hopes his take on the franchise will keep everyone on their toes: “We always knew there were two tracks, so it was about looking at every scene and making sure it is interesting enough for fans who knew where we were going but also for the people who didn’t.”īook: The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday Books, 2018, 354 pages)
His father instilled this sense of having to be twice as good at everything because he’s not how a duke traditionally looks,” says Van Dusen. “Simon has such an interesting journey with the idea of perfectionism. The show really came into focus for me at that point.” For Van Dusen, it also was important that the series’ approach to race went beyond just representation. “There was a theory that Queen Charlotte was England’s first queen of color. “I created the character of Queen Charlotte, who’s not a part of the books,” he says. His way of subverting the period piece was to widen the embrace of who can be included. “My self-imposed mandate was figuring out a way to turn the traditional genre on its head and make something fresh and timely,” he says. It wasn’t just the distinctive Bridgerton family banter and steamy romances that weighed on the showrunner. “The books have such a rabid following - with that expectation comes pressure,” says Bridgerton showrunner Chris Van Dusen. Translating a beloved book series to the screen is not for the fainthearted.
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