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Peacock’s Original Series “The Resort” – Interview w/ creator Andy Siara (Palm Springs). Out Now! #TheResort #AndySiara @PeacockTV @Rmediavilla

Peacock’s Original Series “The Resort” – Interview by Rafy Mediavilla w/ creator Andy Siara (Palm Springs). Where we spoke about shooting in Puerto Rico, his unique style of story telling, and working with Cristin Milioti. Out Now!

A multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple finds themselves embroiled in one of the Mayan Riviera’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries that took place fifteen years prior.


Criticólogos:

We are coming to you Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico, so the first question that I’ve asked everyone, was about dealing with the humidity and our lovely weather. Did you were able to survive? 

Andy Siara:

I mean, I fell in love with it. We were there from. I’ve been going back and forth for the past year now, but I moved there in January and I was there January to May. And weather is great. 

Criticólogos:

You moved here? That’s awesome. 

Andy Siara:

My whole family, we moved down there for the whole production. And I love it. I mean, I miss it already. 

Criticólogos:

You have being working with your own cinematic universe in my book, at least with Palm Springs, Angelyne and now The Resort. And I think all of them had something in common where you take all different genders and you mix them all together and you make something out of it. Which gender off, you know, horror, sci-fi, romance. Which one do you lean to the most?

Andy Siara:

I’m you know, I’d say that, like, I think what allows for the genres to kind of like jump around like that is a tonally I feel like there’s that through line and tonally it’s like always allowing us to go from like the silly to the sincere, like having like of like allowing us allowing the characters to be goofy and like and, and go for the comedy while the same time, like, trying to hit at something deeper that I feel where the comedy comes from. And so I think once, like, that tonal line is consistent. I feel like the the jumping of genres is there’s a little more freedom in doing that. And I think we’re like. And so. So to answer that, like, well, what? Where do I like? Where am I most attractive one? What’s the comedy and the drama and romance is like all already baked in. There’s I got to say, there’s something about like I mean, dressed bright in their movie and then and then and moving into the late nineties like.

But it’s stories that take place, very personal stories that are like arc and archetypical stories that take place. In a much larger backdrop of like something bigger going on, like the Titanic has other influence on the show. It’s like you have a love story that takes place in the middle of something much larger than them. So like, and that those kind of those are in like this adventure kind of category, I guess. Adventure, you know, lean in more sci fi for Jurassic Park, meaning more, you know, disaster for Titanic. But it’s still like in that that rough world there. 

Criticólogos:

To me it seemed that location played a big role in the story. When you recorded The Resort you shoot out here in Puerto Rico, but you also shooted in Santo Domingo, what came first, looking for location scouting and then you then adapted the story to the locations or was it the other way around?

Andy Siara:

I mean, always this always took place at like the first half of the show at two, two resorts. And then one of those resorts is like in the past, and one is in the, you know, an abandoned resort. And so we knew, like, the challenges of that word. Is it like just we’re not just going to one resort and taking over? It’s like we have to get a couple different resorts. And so that was the first step of like, that’s what the story was all around that. So we went scouting for exactly that kind of thing and we found everything we needed in Puerto Rico. 

Criticólogos:

I want to talk about with Cristin once again. Did you have her in mind for the since the beginning, or did you she through the whole process for the casting? 

Andy Siara:

I first told her about this when we were filming the Palm Springs. We’re like the dinosaur campfires. And I was like, Yeah, here’s just this weird, wild show that I’m trying to get off the ground. And, you know, if if some if some network ever wants to ever allows us to make it or wants it, I get that. I’m going to call you. And fast forward to Peacock saying, yes, let’s make your weird wild show. And I called and we talked for a long time and she remembered having this conversation and and yeah. And so I was I was always hopeful that she would want to do this. And luckily she did. She’s incredible. 

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