Phil Rosenthal

And you've been all over the world.

I have been all over the world.

There's something about Russia.

And when I speak to Russians, they laugh and admit it.

It's not that they don't love their family, they don't fight with their family.

It's what they want to show.

That's the difference.

We have no problem showing it.

We have no problem showing real life as real life.

They just classic cultural repression.

Well, they want.

For example, there was a there was a costume lady there in one of my favorite things about the movie.

We're having our first kind of production meeting.

She thinks the show should be used to teach the Russian population about high fashion.

I said, well, that's very nice, except that this is a regular family, not wealthy, and they wear, you know, kind of what we're wearing now.

Except for you, you're very dressed up.

She was very dressed up, costume lady.

She says, no one wants to watch that.

And I said, okay, but if you're going to make it a typical Russian family, which is what the show calls for, if you're doing this show, okay, then, you know, she says, I think the wife should be dressed beautifully.

And I said, what if she's vacuuming the house?