Every time we had to do a water shoot, there would be a historic cold front. So that ended up being a really fun opportunity to revisit some of the characters and their backstories and incorporate rodeo in an interesting way, and that's what we did.īut we did it hoping that it would be warm through the winter, and meanwhile, I was just sick. So when we moved to Texas I really wanted to bring in the Texas of it, because Texas, in particular - I mean, all states have their own flavor - but Texas in particular really has its own culture and flavor. I mean, Carp is all of us basically who don't live in a huge city or didn't grow up in a huge or wealthy environment, right?Īnd so we had filmed the original pilot way back I think in 2018 - Is that possible? Maybe, yes - and it was like we were cursed by a bad witch. And then when I was moving back to New York and started going to Upstate New York a lot and ultimately got a house there, then I was like, 'Ah, I'll just make it Upstate New York, because I knew the area so much.' But one of the things that's great about it is Carp - again, just like an allegory - Carp is a lot of places, especially in this country. I mean, one of the things is when I started to write the book, Carp, it was originally in Oregon because I was living in Oregon at the time.

So, we had originally filmed it in Upstate New York. Why did you decide to set the story in Texas? But really, it was kind of a personal story.Īnd then some of the ideas for the challenges and whatever, those actually came from things that either we had done but largely a lot, even my sister, my older sister who was both a daredevil in some negative ways, but she and her friends used to do in high school, to my terror and with often disastrous effects. And so that kind of got then translated back into, when I was ready to write about it, the idea for this book, and my own personal journey kind of got split up between Heather and Dodge's arcs.

It's pretty much like a literal translation, or transliteration, I'll say, of a psychological journey that I went on between, let's say, the ages of 16 and 26, including attempts to kind of break myself of fears in a way that was, at the time, very ingenuous and also dysfunctional, I would say. Lauren Oliver: Panic is kind of a very personal story to me. RELATED: Amazon Prime Passes 200 Million Subscriber MarkĬBR: How did you come up with the idea for the novel for Panic? In an interview with CBR, Oliver discussed the story's roots in her personal journey, the challenges of translating her novel to the small screen, and how seeing Panic brought to life changed how she viewed the work.

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