I think what happened though, I started to feel the responsibility to not do the violence, and the sex couldn’t be just for the sake of the violence or the sex. Was there anything though that you were like, ‘I don’t know if they’re actually going to let us do this,’ when you’re writing?įontana: HBO was incredibly open to whatever I wanted to try and over six years, they only gave me like five notes over the whole six years. HBO told him to shorten a shot of a gun being pointed at childrenĪugustus Hill and Sister Peter Marie Reimondo in Oz | HBO And like ‘Oh, that was so much fun to do and nobody is ever going to watch this.’Īnd so, to our surprise, people did watch it and there we were making another one and another one and another one.Ģ. It was so outrageous and there was so much that was going on that was never been done before on TV, that we would finish a scene and we would all laugh.
Do you remember what you were thinking while you guys were doing the pilot?įontana: Well, the only thing we all thought was no one would ever watch the show. So my own work in the sense of the dialogue, I was like, ‘Eh, not so great’, but I think the heart of the show still beats very strong. Which I think 20 years ago was fairly unheard of. And I just watched the pilot again for the first time in 20 years and I was happy to see, most of all, how incredible the cast was and about the diversity in the show.
Tom Fontana: You know, it’s funny because when you do something and then you go and revisit it 20 years later, you’re sort of terrified that it’s going to be crap. Q: What does it mean to you to look back at Oz after all these years today? Tom Fontana | Andy Kropa/iStock/Getty Images
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