She credits her ensemble: “We were each other’s biggest allies, because there were definitely times where we would forget or we would be confused about, like, ‘Is this before or after X happened?’ It’s a lot to remember and keep track of.”Īnother major collaborator in that regard was Joe Robert Cole, who most recently cowrote Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Another American Crime Story veteran-he received an Emmy nod for his The People v. Mara acquits herself well in the many temporal shifts, even as it was new territory for her.

The final design found Mara in the makeup chair, starting out, for three hours a day, just to get into character seven months in, the team could cut that daily routine to 90 minutes at best. The process took time: versions of the prosthetics that felt like too much, then too little.

The first thing you’ll notice while watching, surely, is the actors aged a decade-plus up. “It was very much the only option in order to bring that class photo to life.” “The very premise demanded that,” he says. Moving back and forth was the only way he conceived of Class of ’09 the structure that felt intrinsic to his idea. “I find time really interesting and really fascinating-and I wouldn’t want people to think that it was gimmicky,” he says. You could say that between Versace, whose story line innovatively unfolded in reverse, and Class of ’09, Smith has developed something of a signature when it comes to playing with time in TV.

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