Inside Black Mirror: The Illustrated Oral History by Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones & Jason Arnopp

Author:Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones & Jason Arnopp [Brooker, Charlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781529102581
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

SAN JUNIPERO

SAN JUNIPERO

In Conversation

Gugu Mbatha-Raw – actor

Charlie Brooker – writer and executive producer

Annabel Jones – executive producer

Owen Harris – director

Mackenzie Davis – actor

Laurie Borg – producer

Joel Collins – series production designer

Susie Coulthard – costume designer

Tanya Lodge – hair and make-up

In 1987, self-conscious Yorkie meets flamboyant Kelly in a beach resort bar. The two women fall for each other, but there’s more to the sparkling paradise of San Junipero than meets the eye. As the time nears for Kelly to leave town, she faces a huge decision.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (actor): I was very much aware that playing Kelly was a gift of a role, and that San Junipero was a gift of a script. Those things don’t come along very often, so I definitely wanted to do it justice. And even though this ended up as Netflix’s Episode Four, it was the very first episode to be shot for that season, so there was a slight pressure of, “Ooh, this is suddenly a Netflix show and there’s a bit more of that American money coming in. Let’s not let the side down!”

Charlie Brooker: I’d been obsessed with doing a story about the afterlife. I wanted to do a sort of supernatural story, and was thinking of spooky, creepy story ideas. So, weirdly, San Junipero had started in a sort of horror movie world.

Annabel Jones: We always have a scientific explanation for things, even if it’s bollocks! We introduced the idea of digital consciousness in White Christmas, but hadn’t really explored the moral or emotional implications. There was so much untapped potential.

Charlie Brooker: Something else that we’d discussed was a way of expanding the world of Be Right Back. We couldn’t do this now because of [the 2016 HBO TV series set in a Wild West-themed android amusement park] Westworld, but we had the idea of a theme park you went to that was essentially Heaven. All your dead relatives and friends would be there, and you’d pay to go and visit them. So that thought stayed around for a while: this notion of Heaven that you go to as a holiday.

Sometimes it’s useful to start by thinking about what genres we haven’t done yet. Partly because we were doing six films now, we wondered about a retro episode. How could we do one set in the past?

And then I’d remembered seeing this BBC documentary called The Young Ones – no relation to the sitcom – back in 2010. They’d taken six ageing celebrities, in their 70s and 80s, and put them in a house decorated like the 1970s, with vintage TV shows playing on the TV and everything, and the results were astonishing. They were suddenly full of life, almost tossing their walking sticks away, like they were 20 years younger.

So you can see how all these ideas lined up. At some point, they were all up on a whiteboard somewhere. The conversation became quite free-flowing as we bounced from one idea to another. And then it happened really quickly: I was

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