As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.
Thomas SadoskiHaving the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.
Thomas SadoskiEven if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.
Thomas SadoskiYou're going to run into a great deal of opinions. I think that's just fertile ground for us. What else would you want to write a show about than something that is that much of a pressure cooker, that has that much influence and impact? We're going to run into a lot of different opinions, but it's inspiring to me that newsmen and newswomen have reached out and said how thrilled they are with what we're doing.
Thomas SadoskiI have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.
Thomas Sadoski