Перевод на английский нижеThere’s no other place where people beat about the bush as much as in popular TV shows. Why would you let two characters in love get together if there’s a chance that the faithful viewer will get bored and change channels? This is the dilemma of the writers of Castle, about the crime write Richard Castle and detective Kate Beckett. If actress Stana Katic can help it, the two potential turtle doves will be laying in each others’ arms before the end of the year.
Katic’s fellow actor is Nathan Fillion. He is Richard Castle in the series, a successful crime writer who’s suffering from writer’s block. The NYPD asks him to help them with solving a copycat murder from one of his books. And let’s just say Beckett’s on that case. In her he discovers the ideal model for the main character for his new series.
Even though the writers of Castle want to postpone the fireworks between the two ‘thug catchers’, according to the originally Yugoslavic [sic] actress there’s no denying anymore: her character and Fillion’s belong with each other. “Throughout the seasons these characters have developed so strongly. Sooner or later it’s going to get impossible to keep them apart”, [sic] she testifies. “No, Nathan and I don’t agree on that matter. He’s afraid that the audience won’t be interested anymore when two characters in a TV series get together.”
However, there are enough examples you can think of where persistent love birds got together without fatal consequences for the ratings, like Meredith and her doctor McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy and the legendary Tony and Angela from Who’s the Boss. People didn’t just stop watching suddenly because the tension between two characters had disappeared. And if a series has to lose its popularity, usually the ratings are decreasing already, like in the case of The Nanny with the duo Fran Fine and Maxwell Sheffield.
Sometimes Katic has the idea she knows her character better than the writers do, she says. But whatever they’ve got planned for ‘her’ Kate, she hopes above all that they’ll be true to the story. “If you’ve played the chemistry for long enough, and still the characters don’t get together, then you’re just manipulating the viewer. And I don’t like that.” On the question whether she’s vented her opinion to the writers: “Yes, I mean: they read these kinds of interviews as well. They know what I think about it. It’s fun to watch people in love.”
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Katic’s fellow actor is Nathan Fillion. He is Richard Castle in the series, a successful crime writer who’s suffering from writer’s block. The NYPD asks him to help them with solving a copycat murder from one of his books. And let’s just say Beckett’s on that case. In her he discovers the ideal model for the main character for his new series.
Even though the writers of Castle want to postpone the fireworks between the two ‘thug catchers’, according to the originally Yugoslavic [sic] actress there’s no denying anymore: her character and Fillion’s belong with each other. “Throughout the seasons these characters have developed so strongly. Sooner or later it’s going to get impossible to keep them apart”, [sic] she testifies. “No, Nathan and I don’t agree on that matter. He’s afraid that the audience won’t be interested anymore when two characters in a TV series get together.”
However, there are enough examples you can think of where persistent love birds got together without fatal consequences for the ratings, like Meredith and her doctor McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy and the legendary Tony and Angela from Who’s the Boss. People didn’t just stop watching suddenly because the tension between two characters had disappeared. And if a series has to lose its popularity, usually the ratings are decreasing already, like in the case of The Nanny with the duo Fran Fine and Maxwell Sheffield.
Sometimes Katic has the idea she knows her character better than the writers do, she says. But whatever they’ve got planned for ‘her’ Kate, she hopes above all that they’ll be true to the story. “If you’ve played the chemistry for long enough, and still the characters don’t get together, then you’re just manipulating the viewer. And I don’t like that.” On the question whether she’s vented her opinion to the writers: “Yes, I mean: they read these kinds of interviews as well. They know what I think about it. It’s fun to watch people in love.”
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