Actual FAQ’s
October 15th, 2008 Charles
People ask a lot of questions about the show and our motivations behind it, aside from, “what’s your goal” the question we get asked the most is, “so which character is based on which of you?” I appreciate the implication that I know people who: throw up on girls because they are nervous, fuck prostitutes regularly, see marriage as a cure for bad anal sex, get blue balls to the point of icing their dick, and defy all explanations of what a normal human being is. Well, on second thought, never mind.
The real answer to the question is that the characters are based on everyone and nobody. As Saks has already said elsewhere, much of the script is influenced by the real conversations and experiences we’ve had with each other and with other people. A lot of actors and actresses point out how they’ve had exact conversations that take place in the script in real life, I mean fuck, who hasn’t played Marry, Fuck, Kill [for the record it's Scarlett, Beyonce, Alba in that order. Alba just looks like a bad lay*] and in that sense the show is grounded in reality.
