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‘The Residence’ Creator Paul William Davies Investigates A Murder In The White House In Uzo Aduba-Led Mystery Series – Q&A
The series stars Uzo Aduba as detective Cordelia Cupp, solving a murder in The White House.
The Residence follows Cordelia Cupp as she is trying to discover who killed the Chief Usher of The White House, played by Giancarlo Esposito, who replaced Andre Braugher following his death. In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the series’ premiere on Thursday, March 20, Davies explains how he got involved in the project, which is loosely inspired by Kate Andersen Brower’s The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, how he figured out who the killer should be, why Detective Cupp is an avid birder and how the show dealt with the death of Braugher. Scandal, even though it clearly was not a comedy in any traditional sense, had a deep bench of comedic writers, Mark Wilding and Allan Heinberg, and there was a lot of funny stuff in that show even though it obviously wasn’t the orienting principle of it.
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