ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s talk about the whole idea for this episode. We had bedside confessions, dream sequences, dream dance sequences, dream kisses — it was awesome.
GORHAM: The idea was that they wanted to push the Annie/Auggie relationship forward without having to push it forward. Based on everything that’s been happening and if you think about them as real people, [Annie] fell in love with another dude and for a second was going to run away with the guy. Then she’s shot, she wakes up in a coma, she wakes up in the hospital — you’re in no place to start considering dating one of your best friends. It’s just the furthest thing you’d ever want to think about. So, we have to deal with that reality. At the same time, the idea of that relationship is really popular among the audience so they wanted to find a way to give the audience something to hang their hat on, so they came up with this idea, which I thought was great.
Let’s talk about the hospital scene. It’s obviously a big moment that fans are going to want to know about. Tell us about filming that.
It is. It’s a big moment. It’s moments like those that I actually like to get really hands-on, and our writers are great about being open to that. I have clear ideas about what those moments should be, how they should be shaped, and what should be said and what shouldn’t. I think an earlier version of that had him going much further in what he was saying, and I think even with her unconscious, this guy, he’s a dude. He’s not a guy who talks about his feelings. The guy hardly talks about anything outside of work. [Laughs] I think even at his most open and vulnerable, he’s still a guy. He’s not going to come out and gush. It’s going to be very simple. And I think that when it’s simple and declarative, it is at its most powerful.
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