Rob Horn
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Podcast Appearances
How are you? Rob does funny. It has been so long. You look exactly the same. Well, thank you.
How are you? Rob does funny. It has been so long. You look exactly the same. Well, thank you.
The thing is, it was early in the first season and we wanted to start to set up where that relationship might go and how that might go and the internal conflict of the characters. And that it was more dimensional than just a rivalry between the two of them or just a conflict between them, but that there actually was an attraction that they were fighting.
The thing is, it was early in the first season and we wanted to start to set up where that relationship might go and how that might go and the internal conflict of the characters. And that it was more dimensional than just a rivalry between the two of them or just a conflict between them, but that there actually was an attraction that they were fighting.
And so once you could set that up early in the season, you really had the opportunity to play with that. And also, and this is all from the incredible mind of Yvette Bowser. So we just wrote the words. It was all from her. Yeah. But also one of the wonderful things about it was you got to see how alike they actually were as characters and how they were fighting their similarities.
And so once you could set that up early in the season, you really had the opportunity to play with that. And also, and this is all from the incredible mind of Yvette Bowser. So we just wrote the words. It was all from her. Yeah. But also one of the wonderful things about it was you got to see how alike they actually were as characters and how they were fighting their similarities.
And that that's where their attraction came from was the fact that they were so much alike they couldn't stand looking at themselves that deeply.
And that that's where their attraction came from was the fact that they were so much alike they couldn't stand looking at themselves that deeply.
It was a number of things. The chemistry between the two actors was undeniable. And there was so much comedy to be mined from that. So Yvette would sit down and say, what do you all want to write? What characters do you want to write? And so Danny and I said, we really want to write something for Max and Kyle.
It was a number of things. The chemistry between the two actors was undeniable. And there was so much comedy to be mined from that. So Yvette would sit down and say, what do you all want to write? What characters do you want to write? And so Danny and I said, we really want to write something for Max and Kyle.
And so we brainstormed that idea at the table with all the writers and she let us write it. It was very in our wheelhouse, that kind of conflict comedy, that sort of banter.
And so we brainstormed that idea at the table with all the writers and she let us write it. It was very in our wheelhouse, that kind of conflict comedy, that sort of banter.
And I think because we, before this, before Living Single, we're writing Designing Women, we really started to learn how to sort of elevate that kind of comedy and sort of make it what we do.
And I think because we, before this, before Living Single, we're writing Designing Women, we really started to learn how to sort of elevate that kind of comedy and sort of make it what we do.
Well, you know, I say... Thank you. I was raised in a household of all women. So I didn't have a dad. And I was raised by my mom and my grandmother and my twin sister. And so I sort of... And I think maybe because I was gay at a time when there was a, you know, when it wasn't as accepted as it is now. And so you learn to understand what it's like to feel like a minority in some ways.
Well, you know, I say... Thank you. I was raised in a household of all women. So I didn't have a dad. And I was raised by my mom and my grandmother and my twin sister. And so I sort of... And I think maybe because I was gay at a time when there was a, you know, when it wasn't as accepted as it is now. And so you learn to understand what it's like to feel like a minority in some ways.
And being raised by all women, I sort of got an insight and an understanding of... the prism for how women view the world, much more so. And I was sensitive to that, and I just sort of related to it. Wow.
And being raised by all women, I sort of got an insight and an understanding of... the prism for how women view the world, much more so. And I was sensitive to that, and I just sort of related to it. Wow.