So yeah creatively, pandemic-wise it all kind of just fell into our lap perfectly. If we’re going to do it at all, this is the episode. It was like this just seems to scream animation. And because they have this sort of supernatural experience - or not really but they get their caricatures drawn - all of a sudden, their insecurities become their new faces and their new heads. And then you meet a boy, and all of a sudden, like, everything changes. It’s this vacation that you take with your parents that you get really excited about and then it ends up being boring, and how you can’t go in the water and do anything. It sort of surprised me, I would say, as we were making it, like “Oh wow, this actually is really perfect for animation and I’m really glad that we went this route.” There’s something a little fantasy about this episode. So animation felt great as we were doing it. I think at one point we were like, “Oh, stop-motion would be amazing,” but that takes really long and was expensive, and all these other things. Because we had flirted with it before - because it was a special - we were like, it could be anything. I feel like PEN15 tonally lends itself to animation, but were there specific elements of this episode that you were like, “You know what, maybe this should be the thing that we animate.” Or was it more just making the choice at that moment based on where you were production-wise in the pandemic? We ended up going with also Starburns, who had helped make the vaginas in the first part of the season at the end of the wrestling episode. In a way, it was a saving grace, and while we were editing the first part of season 2a during the pandemic, we sort of do we hold off and try to film it later? When would that be? We were asking all these questions, so we revisited the animation topic and, and just proceeded on when we were finishing up editing. Like I don’t know how that would have actually happened.” I don’t think it would have. ![]() ![]() We decided to do live-action, and when the pandemic happened, we were like a week away from shooting that whole episode, and our line producer had said to us, “Yeah, I’m glad that never happened because those would have been 20-hour days. We kind of flirted with the idea when we were first writing it just because when we’re writing, we’re always kind of considering what the limitations are in terms of shooting, the schedule and all of these things. So when did the idea for this episode get put on the table? This was produced during the pandemic, but it’s animated and that isn’t something you can do in the same time frame as live-action. 'The Crown' Star Erin Doherty Joins Disney+ Period Boxing Drama 'A Thousand Blows'Īhead of the episode’s debut, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with PEN15 co-creator, star and writer Maya Erskine not just about how the episode came together with the help of Starburns during the pandemic (and during her pregnancy) but also about learning the ropes of animation production and the ’90s influences that the team drew from.
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