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what was the sort of biggest debate
conversation you had in the writers room
about getting something to scream it's
you with your researchers so it's a
little bit different or perhaps with the
network well no I say I think we I think
when you're doing a drama based on real
people real events you have to
constantly ask yourself where you stand
in truth and accuracy and and what the
responsibilities of that is and so I
think all our significant debates are
about you know how comfortable am I
saying a certain thing or having dialed
suggests another thing when the facts
you know whose fact which historian
watch point of view have those historian
so where am I getting my facts and we
you know I mean the good news about the
royal family and about prime ministers
is that both of them are there their
day-to-day movements are so clearly you
know everybody knows where they were and
when on each particular day there's no
mystery about it at all so you can tell
the character was here and then here and
then here and here but I have to join
the dots and that's where the act of
imagination comes in and then you're
sort of saying well hang on a minute the
minute it is the minute it is committed
to film people are going to assume if
you've done your job right in all the
other areas if what you're doing is
satire and the rules are clear that it's
satire you know it's one thing but if
what you're saying is this is a
plausible emotional reality between
plausible human beings it then follows
that what they do and say people will
think you have treated responsibly
enough but of course there is an act of
the imagination and I think that there's
a covenant of trust with an audience
where they think I'm watching something
and I'm I think people know but too
often I get shocked where people so
habit when that happened like I will
know actually I had to imagine that and
ever I can't say with any degree of
certainty that that is what happened but
I wouldn't have done it unless I think
there's pretty good reason for it we all
closed our eyes our ears to what was
being said about you we dismissed it as
fabrications as cruel chatter in light
of your decision to give up the throne
but when the truth finally came out the
truth it makes a mockery of even the
central tenets of Christianity I'm
comfortable I sleep at night thinking
that it might have happened but who
knows like when I'm here I sometimes
sleep at home but that keeps me that
that that can't wait what is Jack again
everything was real the Jackie Kennedy
thing it what you mean their
disagreement well well what she said
about the Connie in terms of heard like
not being a little unimpressed
that was absolutely I act so nice I can
look you in the eye and say that that's
for real there isn't such a culture of
pitching in the UK we you know I the
crown but but really only to one or two
people and but I thinking back now the
world talking III did that I originally
wanted to write frost/nixon for for the
screen and and I had I think a dozen
unsuccessful pitches everybody thought
it was a catastrophe
and then what because it's as dull as a
mea coz there are two people and they
talked and I remember jumping up and
down trying to animate it by saying it's
sort of about a TV show saying it's
rocky with words so I had to write it as
a play first and and so I went and wrote
it for the theater thinking well they've
cleaned has no life in film and then
having written it as a play every single
company came back and tried to try to
get it back as a film so it was almost
like they they needed persuaded they
needed to see it well they needed
something else to blame
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when you write you want to be able to do
anything and everything and and it's a
bit like a doctor and I don't tell you
what it's like me but it's a bit it's a
bit like imagining you're gonna go into
all areas of medical practice you know
end-of-life care or obstetrics or
whatever it is and then you do one good
operation on an elbow suddenly I just
get elbows how I ended up in this
predicament I'm not a doctor but I the
doc I become the doctor guy I am Peter
Morgan hi I'm Connie thanks for watching
thanks for watching thanks for watch
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