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What will happen if you discover a fungus that can treat? everything? This is the main question of standing behind Mature swimmingnin General side effectsNew series from joint creators Joe Bennett (The crumbs are dominated( and Steve Heli (VEEP, The Office, 30 Rock) –And the answer brings many chaos to the life of an eccentric genius marshal, which encounters miraculous fungus.

With the help of a former secondary school laboratory partner, it is now afraid to say that he is working for the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company – the Marshall’s pet is a tortoise and flees from anyone who feels danger. Leap, which aroused many deep pocket, well-armed, wild-eyed people.

To learn more about the series, IO9 ahead of Bennett and Hely won the chance to talk to General side effects‘February 2 is the debut in adult swimming.

Cheryl Eddy, iO9: One of them General side effectsLarge topics are to prosecute health companies – something new in the period after Luigi Mangione. How do you feel about the new cultural context of show?

Steve location: Well, it was a little shock. This event, of course, was very sad. But he said that we touched and touched a nerve where people think and speaks, and it strengthens people’s imagination and beliefs. We are definitely thinking about something in public consciousness or consciousness, and it is an alarming and a little scary when it becomes active street violence. But I think we are beautiful to touch something that feels relevant.

io9: Marshall is a very unconventional hero. What did he know his history and appearance?

Joe Bennett: He was based on a large bag of different characters. There are poll stamets, he is a mirologist – these people, Terens McKenna, Richard Shults and Uyd Davis and Uyd Davis, who are in many external worlds. Also visual and marshal has come from John LarocheOrchid thief book) and Adaptation-I really liked the Chris Cooper version. It is a little whimsical, a little untidy, self-confident, a very smart guy. He would always represent himself in court. He is a unique cruel, but your traditional hero, the hard guy is not your looking character. I like the marshala’s pacifist. He has his philosophies or ideologies that he knows that he was a little minority.

Location: Even if he is thinking of himself and brings him to confrontation with strong forces, he is preparing to follow a matter that will take it.

io9: Do you think francis is interesting to help him?

Location: I think that it is always attractive, although it is so passionate, independent and controlled, sometimes a little strange and scary. And then Francis struggles with what is in this world and what he really believes. It is difficult to do so that we were thinking of a character that has enough money to survive, trying not to be poor, trying not to be poor, who are real, being real. This brings him to work in this company, which is not so sure, and the beliefs are questioning. It seemed like an exciting spark for a small connection, and a story that will expand as we talk to it.

iO9: There are many malignant in the show – drug manufacturers, insurance companies, government transactions remaining in the shade. What are you in terms of the pyramid’s peaks the worst?

Location: We have always thought of that that is not a human being. This is more system. Even (the CEO of the Drug Company) Rick or conspiracies, we have always tried to show them a bit of their humanity and where they come from. They are just people who are taken to a system outside our control. In the series, we have some dark characters that expressed their point of view, and we have always tried to do this as “okay, yes, you can see somewhere.” Everyone is simply “Haha, I am bad, aestigraid!” motivated in some way, not like. They have a look at the world for them, and they feel that they work themselves from an important perspective.

We talked to people with different outlooks. We talked to a retired Dea agent and talked to pharmaceutical people. You know, people who work in a large pharmacy company can claim, “Yes, it costs a lot of money, because we need this money for research and development. And we get a lot of money because we are financing the next invention. Are you not happy because of Advil, Penicillin, Covid vaccine and other things? You can see this from their point of view. We have not done no man to do anything or anything else, but we tried to make them multidiminating them.

iO9: I did not include DEA agents on this naughty list because you feel that their moral compositions are focused in the right direction. They are also very strange – why did you want to tend to them like a funny relief?

Location: Most of this work is that you sit there or look for a place. And it seemed to us that the people in the work often talk about everything except work and life.

Bennett: We’ve made an early animated test before any actor joins the show, and we just wanted to try to understand the relationship without talking about any character. So I did a little animated with their Harry Belafonte dance and I think that in many ways, it helped us to give us an idea of ​​how they were.

Yes, according to Steve, we talk about it a lot when we think about the characters and how they talked to each other. If you are Steve and I go for a walk, we probably talk about everything and everything other than the actual hike. It’s a lot of time to simply kill. There are many topics that they simply throw. And then at the end of the day they are real people. This is their job, but they have their own desires and needs. We just tried to create (them) more than (multiple) size characters as possible.

iO9: ADult SWIM seems to be an unusual performance for this type of show – has elements of its humor and fantasy elements and assassination triller, but it is a little more serious than we associate with the platform. Why was the right place for your show?

Location: I think it would simply be released in Max, and then Adult Swim was excited. We are also very excited to be part of the heritage of 20 or 30 years of magnificent shows, I like these shows for a long time, but they want to be pleasant to us: why we can’t expand what mature swimming and a little time consumes We will have a sound and non-crazy serialized show? Tones can sometimes be a little weaker. It is interesting and fun they want to expand what mature swims mean.

io9: When it comes to the existence of a mushroom that can heal any disease, how much fact and how much is it?

Location: There are many things we don’t know about fungi. The mushrooms are extremely strange and I think we can almost understand what they do. Some can heal you or give you crazy footage, and some can kill you. It is delicious that they have. Thus, it is not completely crazy to have someone who can act as a stem cell therapy. I think something close to this has not been discovered yet, but imagining that such a thing did not look crazy. can There are.

iO9: I love the sound staff, although there were not many people that I immediately know other than Mike Judge. Did you mean certain performers for heroes?

Location: Some people were the people he knows and worked in the past, or the people we recognized. Dave (King) played the role of Marshall (King) was a little acting, but he is not mainly an actor. We love Martha Kellini (playing the role of Harrington). Worked with my wife in a broadcast called Copano (Joseph Lee Anderson) Young rockAnd we just thought it was his beautiful voice. And we caught a lot of people. Some sounds me and Joe. Our goal was their realistic sound. For us, you do not have the benefit of not entrusting your cartoon sound to a really famous person. You want to be right for the incarnation of the character. … Our all coaching or director was like “do it, like, do not actority.” For professional actors, it is difficult to reach there when alone in the recording booth. But I think we were able to get the original feelings of this real, stumbling performed in the voice.

io9: This is the last Joe for – we were great The crumbs are dominated They regretted their fans and more seasons in iO9. How do you feel right now and is this story you want to return?

Bennett: I feel good about it. This will be the future. I’m not worried about that. I am very grateful that we must prepare (one season) and it has a cool fan base that feels like it has increased day by day. And you know that doors will open. (They) always (have). It seems to me that if I do not stand on negatives (they) will continue to do so. I try to put my head down and put the glasses and just try to do fun things. But yes, there are more stories to be explained with confidence.

General side effects Presents the first two episodes on Sunday, February 23:30 in adult swimming in ET / PT; After that, there will be a new episode every Sunday along the 10 episodes. You can also broadcast new episodes on Monday Max.

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