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That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

We always thought it was a good idea. And then he finally, while we were doing Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot, he sent us the script. And he's like, I don't know if you remember this.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

We always thought it was a good idea. And then he finally, while we were doing Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot, he sent us the script. And he's like, I don't know if you remember this.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

We always thought it was a good idea. And then he finally, while we were doing Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot, he sent us the script. And he's like, I don't know if you remember this.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

And it all sort of like fell into place. It was like, because we were off season, so we weren't in that pilot casting madness. It was like everybody was available that you wanted. And it was, yeah, and all just sort of.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

And it all sort of like fell into place. It was like, because we were off season, so we weren't in that pilot casting madness. It was like everybody was available that you wanted. And it was, yeah, and all just sort of.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

And it all sort of like fell into place. It was like, because we were off season, so we weren't in that pilot casting madness. It was like everybody was available that you wanted. And it was, yeah, and all just sort of.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Yeah. We wanted it to feel intimate and voyeuristically or in these people's lives yeah and uh we had just experimented with a lot of handheld on on whiskey tango foxtrot yeah and you know it was just a fast way to move it was great for like throwing out ideas and redoing stuff and keeping it moving yeah and uh

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Yeah. We wanted it to feel intimate and voyeuristically or in these people's lives yeah and uh we had just experimented with a lot of handheld on on whiskey tango foxtrot yeah and you know it was just a fast way to move it was great for like throwing out ideas and redoing stuff and keeping it moving yeah and uh

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Yeah. We wanted it to feel intimate and voyeuristically or in these people's lives yeah and uh we had just experimented with a lot of handheld on on whiskey tango foxtrot yeah and you know it was just a fast way to move it was great for like throwing out ideas and redoing stuff and keeping it moving yeah and uh

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

so we said there are no dollies allowed no cranes allowed no you know if you're shooting in a car shoot in the car don't you know don't do the the rig you know okay and all that stuff just like make it real like a camera crew is following these people around yeah and make it feel that way it's okay if there's bumps and mistakes yeah yeah yeah and it just makes it feel like more intimate like you're spying on someone like you're it's so you wanted to sense like you're inappropriately dropping

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

so we said there are no dollies allowed no cranes allowed no you know if you're shooting in a car shoot in the car don't you know don't do the the rig you know okay and all that stuff just like make it real like a camera crew is following these people around yeah and make it feel that way it's okay if there's bumps and mistakes yeah yeah yeah and it just makes it feel like more intimate like you're spying on someone like you're it's so you wanted to sense like you're inappropriately dropping

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

so we said there are no dollies allowed no cranes allowed no you know if you're shooting in a car shoot in the car don't you know don't do the the rig you know okay and all that stuff just like make it real like a camera crew is following these people around yeah and make it feel that way it's okay if there's bumps and mistakes yeah yeah yeah and it just makes it feel like more intimate like you're spying on someone like you're it's so you wanted to sense like you're inappropriately dropping

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Well, it is dangerous, because if an airbag goes off, you can really hurt somebody.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Well, it is dangerous, because if an airbag goes off, you can really hurt somebody.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Well, it is dangerous, because if an airbag goes off, you can really hurt somebody.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

You know, you could turn an airbag off or whatever. Yeah. The rule now is, is as long as you control the street or you can control the traffic around, you can do it. But back then it was, we were wild west.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

You know, you could turn an airbag off or whatever. Yeah. The rule now is, is as long as you control the street or you can control the traffic around, you can do it. But back then it was, we were wild west.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

You know, you could turn an airbag off or whatever. Yeah. The rule now is, is as long as you control the street or you can control the traffic around, you can do it. But back then it was, we were wild west.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

I mean, it was the way it was written. I mean, it's in there. It's in the script. And we'd always done a lot of stuff as writers where we were trying to mix tones like Dan does really well. So that's why we wanted to do Crazy Stupid Love when he wrote it, because we're like, this is basically the style that we do.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

I mean, it was the way it was written. I mean, it's in there. It's in the script. And we'd always done a lot of stuff as writers where we were trying to mix tones like Dan does really well. So that's why we wanted to do Crazy Stupid Love when he wrote it, because we're like, this is basically the style that we do.