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‘Long Bright River’ Creators Break Down That Killer Reveal, Changes From the Novel and What Amanda Seyfried Brought to Mickey
"Long Bright River" co-creators Liz Moore and Nikki Toscano on the biggest changes from the book, Amanda Seyfried's prep and a possible Season 2.
“My inexperience in television writing might have been both a hindrance and hopefully helpful in certain ways because, frankly, I didn’t know what would be hard to do,” Moore tells Variety over a Zoom call. Toscano: In simultaneously trying to preserve the internal nature of the character, we were tipping our hat to the fact that the person we’re following, Mickey Fitzpatrick, might not be the reliable narrator that we think her to be — because she’s not telling us everything. In our series, she went to Penn for a year: It was an important part of her backstory that she had a shot at a life outside the neighborhood she grew up in, but ultimately kept on getting pulled back in to take care of her sister.
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