DangerousLiaisons' Alice Englert & Nicholas Denton discuss creating the origin story of classic characters, exploring toxic love and manipulation, and more.
A prelude to the classic 18th century novel written by Choderlos de Laclos, the Starz drama series Dangerous Liaisons, which has already received a second season pickup, explores the original story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, in all of its passionate and manipulative glory.
NICHOLAS DENTON: This story is this massive, huge, godlike thing that’s existed for so long and in so many different iterations. I’d seen remakes, and whatnot. I knew of the play. I hadn’t read the book. I hadn’t seen the films. I was like, “All right, cool. This is amazing.” I looked at this as being a prelude to that origin story. It’s not really a remake. It’s a new piece of material. We’re creating our own world. That’s what’s a really sick concept because we can just make something.
ENGLERT: Yeah, they’re all looking for something, and you really feel it. When it comes to prequels and preludes, or whatever, I’ve actually had a good experience with it. Doing Ratched was really such a wonderful time. The author wrote, years later, about running into the woman who he based Nurse Ratched on, and she seemed a lot smaller and kinder than he remembered. That was so interesting.
DENTON: It’s a love scene on top of that map. We’re rolling around in the nude on top of Paris. It’s a common concept, but amazingly poignant.DENTON: It’s like, “I’m going to stomp all over this city.” It was freeing. And it really does set up what ends up happening in the season and what they’re going to do.
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