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Friday Night Lights Creator Talks TV and Film
Peter Berg, whose first appearance was as Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope, has come a long way from dancing to the tune of “Wild Thing” to getting into the director’s seat and creating critically acclaimed film and shows.
Most recently, his credits include Friday Night Lights, which from a book he successfully turned into a film, and later on, a television show. Shortly before his new film, The Kingdom, starring Jaime Foxx, Chris Cooper and Jennifer Garner, opened last Friday, September 28, Berg revealed some things about his work as an executive producer for Friday Night Lights.
Berg talked to New York Magazine about producing Friday Night Lights after directing the show’s pilot.
“watch the rough cut of every show, and generally I love everything they’re doing, so my role is to be a fan,” Berg revealed about how immersed he is with the show. “Every once in a while, I’ll have an opinion on something. [For example,] there’s something very dramatic and violent that happens in the first episode. I encouraged the producers to carefully consider what the impact of that would be. I didn’t want it to appear that we were being sensational.”
The actor turned director and producer added how intense he was over the summer after facing the possibility of Friday Night Lights not returning to television.
“Let’s just say I was on Jeff Zucker’s phone list repeatedly,” he said. “There wasn’t a lot of subtlety. It was, ‘Jeff, you got to pick up the f***ing show.’ And he would say, ‘I hear you.’ And I’d say, ‘No, Jeff, I’m serious, you’ve got to pick up the f***ing show.’”
New York Magazine then asked Berg what he did after the network agreed to give the series a temporary go signal.
“I sent him a bathrobe that says MR. ZUCKER,” Berg replied.
The magazine then asked him about how he handled the massive stunts on his new film, The Kingdom.
“I’ve had every job you could have on a movie set,” Berg revealed. “I was a grip, a prop man, a stand-in, a PA. The key to big action sequences is having a vision for what you want. Way before we started, I had beers with our stunt coordinator, playing with toy cars like little kids, and I’m telling him, ‘This car will hit that car, and it will swerve and twist.’”
Berg also added his thoughts on the film’s message and how it represents the Saudi Arabian society.
“I hope that it’s pretty clear that the movie doesn’t support religious extremism, but that it does support dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims,” Berg explained. “If there was a tourism department of the Saudi government, which there’s not, I bet we’d be getting some phone calls from them right about now. But The Kingdom presents the most optimistic and moderate portrayal of an Arab character that I’ve ever seen in a film.”
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