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Loccisano/Getty Imag for SXSW</ce></div></figure></div></div><div class="relative mt-28 md:mx-to md:flex md:max-w-ntaer-md lg:mt-36 lg:max-w-none"><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent-ntaer sm:ml-to md:ml-100 md:max-w-article-body lg:mx-100"><div id="ntent" class="clearfix"><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup mb-20 font-fkroman text-22 leadg-150 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe first-letter:float-left first-letter:mr-18 first-letter:font-polysans-mono first-letter:text-[117px] first-letter:font-medium first-letter:leadg-[.72] dark:first-letter:text-ankl">Fantasy thor Neil Gaiman has been talkg about managg the <a href="/2019/5/22/18635845/good-omens-review-amazon-studs-michael-sheen-david-tennant-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett">Amazon / BBC productn of <em>Good Omens</em></a> for months now. Even so, he still gets emotnal about Terry Pratchett, his -thor on the 1990 novel that the seri adapts. “All I wanted to do was to make somethg Terry would have liked,” Gaiman says. “That was the only le.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Gaiman is no stranger to workg televisn. Many of his ics and novels have been adapted for the screen, om the 1996 BBC miseri <em>Neverwhere</em> to the Starz adaptatn of his novel <a href="/culture/2017/4/27/15454804/amerin-gods-starz-news-updat-trailers-mentary-neil-gaiman"><em>Amerin Gods</em></a>, which he produced. But <em>Good Omens</em>, which he scripted and produced,<em> </em>reprented a new level of mment for him. As the shownner, he personally oversaw every step of productn, per Pratchett’s dyg wish that he make sure an adaptatn was done right. <em>Good Omens</em> is Gaiman’s extremely fahful adaptatn of the apolyptic tale he and Pratchett wrote together. It follows the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the mon Crowley (David Tennant) as they attempt to prevent the end tim. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Directed entirely by Douglas Macknon (<em>Doctor Who</em>, <em>Outlanr</em>), the seri has an all-star st largely om Gaiman’s personal ntacts, cludg Jon Hamm, Josie Lawrence, Adria Arjona, Michael McKean, Jack Whehall, Miranda Richardson, and Nick Offerman. Many of them, Gaiman says, were fans of the novel. Together, they ultimately jt wanted to rpect Pratchett’s wish for a good adaptatn. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block w-full md:ml-[-100px] md:w-outnt"><div class="duet--media--embed m-h-[270px] mb-20 w-full"></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em>The terview has been eded for clary and length.</em></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>What was your approach figurg out what the story need to work as a miseri?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Pickg up a py of the book that’s about 360 pag long this edn and puttg a Post- note every 60 pag. That giv six episos. And then lookg at each 60-page chunk, lookg at episo 3, gog, “That’s weird, Crowley and Aziraphale aren’t this one. Why don’t I jt do a sort of pre-cred sequence — jt the 6,000 years of human history where you get to fd out how they got where they were?”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Get to episo 6, go, “That’s tertg, if I shoot like this, I’m gog to n out of plot halfway through the episo, and then ’s gog to get really dull. I’m gog to have to fix that, but I don’t know how yet. I’ll figure out. I do know the angels are . And I do know hell is . Now I’m gog to start, and let’s see where that tak .” And that really was the procs.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">“[Terry] died, and I went to the funeral, flew home, land, and started wrg episo 1, a world which nothg seemed very funny.”</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Terry was a a, I thk, at the pot when I was dog that. I got a letter om him, sayg, “Please do this for me.” And then he died, and I flew to England. I did a 48-hour round trip, went to the funeral, flew home, land, and started wrg episo 1, a world which nothg seemed very funny. That was the procs. Wre script by script, jt try to envisn the televisn seri that I would like to see.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">We had talked, Terry and I, a lot about the angels. The angels actually showed up a first draft of the <em>Good Omens</em> film script we did. For some reason, the stud uldn’t e to terms wh the ia of Aziraphale owng a bookshop, so he had to work the Brish Mm. So there was a scene where he was pursued through the Brish Mm by angels flickg on their halos then throwg them like killer Frisbe.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">It was jt that thg of gog, “Okay, we need angels here to balance everythg out. We need a few more. We’ve got a uple of mons.” I was like, “Okay, let’s see heaven, let’s see hell.” That all really jt grew anilly. And by the time I got to episo 6, all of the solutns to my clock problems were jt wag for me there.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--sibar bg-gray-200 mb-20 w-full round-sm bg-[#F8F5FF] p-20 [&>*:last-child>*:last-child]:mb-0"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.66666666666666%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" 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class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Photo: Amazon Studs</ce></div></div><div class="[&_*]:mb-10 [&_*]:ml-0 [&_*]:mt-4 [&_h2]:lg:text-33 [&_h3]:lg:text-26 [&_h5]:text-black"><h4 class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-headg my-20 font-polysans text-24 font-light leadg-110 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple md:text-26 [&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&>a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><a href="/2019/5/22/18635845/good-omens-review-amazon-studs-michael-sheen-david-tennant-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett"><strong>At heart, Amazon’s Good Omens is a gay smic rom-</strong></a></h4></div><div class="[&_p]:font-polysans [&_p]:text-16 [&_p]:font-light [&_p]:leadg-130"></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>How much of Gabriel’s persona and character were on the page before Jon Hamm me ?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">All of . I went, “Okay, I need somebody who has to be bigger, better-lookg, and better-drsed than Aziraphale. They need to be able to liver the l wh absolute certaty of their own rightns. And you have to want to h them the face all the time.” And so I wrote an email to Jon Hamm and said, “Jon, you told me once that <em>Good Omens</em> was one of your favore books 20 years ago. Would you like to be the angel Gabriel? This is what he is. And, by the way, he’s not the book.” And I got a one-word email back, which jt said, “Y.” So now I had a Jon Hamm.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>That reveals a lot about the book’s huge fan base.</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Which is why Michael [Sheen] did . And Sister Mary, Na Sosanya. She read first when she was 15, and she’s read every year sce, and she lov . She was the first actor we got, who crystallized for me, “Okay, this is the kd of performance that we need.” Up until that pot, we’d been dng nuns, and they all knew the thg was funny, so we were gettg funny performanc om them. And was like, “No, do what Na’s dog, where she plays absolutely and utterly straight, and ’s hilar.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>Did you have any bra tst or producers you nsulted about the chang you were makg to the story?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The most important one was Rob Wilks, who is Terry Pratchett’s reprentative on Earth. I remember the pot where I figured out what I was gog to do episo 6, how I was gog to get a plot that ran all the way through the end. And the ia that I was gog to start episo 6 wh Crowley’s trial. I remember textg Rob, “Oh, this is so fuckg clever.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">When we were workg on the scripts, [we were workg exclively] wh the BBC. The BBC didn’t give the kd of not you might expect om a stud, I thk partly bee they knew had gone so far beyond their budget om like halfway through episo 1. They were like, “We’ll jt let him wre.” And then we got to take those scripts to Amazon [which -produced the seri], and they’re like, “Oh, we love this. Okay.” So was very simple.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">But there were surpris all the way through the very, very end. Some of was the show wasn’t done until every b of was done, which clud the graphics, the voic, the last VFX, the gradg, the lorg. Sudnly, ’s like, “Oh, that’s what we ma.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block w-full md:ml-[-100px] md:w-outnt"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:58.533956162414654%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 376w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 384w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 415w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 480w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 540w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 640w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 750w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 828w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1920w, 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style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 376w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 384w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 415w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 480w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 540w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 640w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 750w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 828w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 1920w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 2048w, (1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(1392x815:1393x816):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Photo: Amazon Prime Vio</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>Do you feel prsure om knowg this has to be the five bt adaptatn uld be?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">No. All I wanted to do was to make somethg Terry would have liked. It wasn’t like, “Make the bt thg.” I like to thk of thgs like this almost as school plays. “Here’s our school play of <em>Good Omens</em>. We’ve got Michael and David. We have Franc McDormand and Benedict Cumberbatch, Nick Offerman, Na Sosanya, Miranda Richardson, Adria Arjona, Jack Whehall, all of the great people . But you n put on your school play next year.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>How do feel to know your versn is out there?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Wonrful, really wonrful. Mostly bee I feel like I’ve been… ’s like a rtoon, where somebody go to the laboratory, and then you jt see the “keep out” sign, and you hear hammerg for a while, and sudnly the door opens, and there is the robot or whatever they’ve been makg. And now I’m lettg everybody see the robot. And that is so excg. This is four years of my life, and I loved , and I’m really lookg forward to beg done.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>From everythg you’ve said publicly over the years, seems like this was a really great experience you look forward to never havg aga.</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Yeah, I was not put on this pla to have to argue wh someone about fuckg budgets. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>The thgs you do for Terry.</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Yeah, there was an awful lot of “Great, you lumbered me wh this, and then you buggered off.” </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Probably the biggt reason I’m thrilled to have done is a kd of proof of ncept. Over the years, I’ve ma lots of thgs, and they’re all a b odd, but I’ve always loved that. You look at <em>Anansi Boys</em>, <em>Corale</em>, <em>The Ocean at The End of the Lane</em>, they’re not like other thgs. <em>Sandman, </em>’s not like other thgs.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">A lot of them have been adapted, some of them adapted really well, and a lot of them have failed to actually go to the screen. But there’s fely a level on which I wd up feelg like I n pot at somethg and go, “I thk would be really good if you did that thg that’s the book bee I thk will work.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The lovely thg about <em>Good Omens</em> [the miseri] is that ’s still <em>Good Omens</em>. If you loved the book, this is that thg that you loved. And I will make you fall love even more wh Sergeant Shadwell. I will make you fall even more love wh Newt than you thought you uld, I hope. It do monstrate that I do kd of know what I’m talkg about, which is a nice thg to know.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block w-full md:ml-[-100px] md:w-outnt"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.650390625%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 376w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 384w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 415w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 480w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 540w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 640w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 750w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 828w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1920w, 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style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 376w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 384w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 415w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 480w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 540w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 640w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 750w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 828w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 1920w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 2048w, (1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(1024x683:1025x684):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Photo: Amazon Prime Vio</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>The adaptatn procs mt feel like watchg somethg you’ve said translated to a different language.</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">There’s also jt the feelg of wantg to monstrate to people that this stuff actually do work as wrten. It don’t have to be fixed. The number of adaptatns of <em>Sandman </em>I have read over the years — mostly, I watch people tryg sperately to fix the thgs they thk are broken . I look at and I go, “Actually, this works, and you’d be much better off if you jt did the thg I did. Then would work.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">So wh <em>Good Omens</em>, I feel like what I got to do was put the thg I ma wh Terry on the screen and then buttrs . What I add isn’t pletely different om the origal. It’s not out of left field.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>The biggt chang om the book to the show all seem to reflect beg the story of two iends.</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">It’s te. Although, if you told me that when I sat down to wre , I might have been que surprised. It beme very apparent when I was wrg that the song “A Nightgale Sang Berkeley Square” is a better place to end the televisn show than [the place where the book end].</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>You had Tori Amos rerd an origal ver of that song, which is an old standard. What’s s signifince here?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">It’s an English song, although I believe was wrten before the war, by an expat om France. [Note: The song was wrten 1939, wh lyrics by Eric Maschwz and mic by Manng Sherw.] And jt lists the strange thgs that happen one night that have never happened before.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The book has the le “for the first time ever, a nightgale sang Berkeley Square.” That was me bee I liked that ia that, for once, a nightgale actually did sg Berkeley Square. The whole pot of [the song] is, there are all the thgs that never happened except this one time… and there’s a lyric about “there were angels dg at the Rz.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">And then while wrg, I spent probably four days listeng to versns of “A Nightgale Sang Berkeley Square.” Every versn on Spotify, every versn on YouTube, gog, “There’s a versn I have my head that I need to fish wh. It’s got to be dner piano, and has to go to somebody sgg and breakg your heart.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">I listened to versn after versn, and [the one I envisned] didn’t exist. So I reached out to Tori Amos [a longtime iend] and said, “Please e to the cuttg room, I want to show you stuff.” And I showed her what we were dog and showed her the end, and I jt said, “Look, will you do this thg? Gog om dner piano, we’ll brg some strgs, but I want you to sg the song.”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">“I thk will be much harr for a future shownner to bullsh me.”</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">All I requted of her was jt the first verse or two, and she actually do three vers and a ltle wrap-up. It seems to be the only time I’ve ever n to people that say they’ve sat and watched the whole of the creds, jt bee they wanted to listen to Tori sgg and fd out how end.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>It’s a nice cherry on this sundae bee so much of <em>Good Omens </em>is built around people you already knew.</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The are my iends. Like I said, ’s like a school play.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>You’ve said you never want to be a shownner aga, but what about this experience do you plan to e the future?</strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe after:absolute after:ml-8 after:mt-2 after:ntent-[url(/ins/)]">I thk will be much harr for a future shownner to bullsh me. I thk there are fely plac where I will be firmer on thgs where I wouldn’t have necsarily been the past. I’m still gog to be wrg scripts, I’m still gog to be makg thgs. 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Good Omens shownner Neil Gaiman rponds to fans' qutns over whether Michael Sheen and David Tennant's Aziraphale and Crowley are gay.

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AT HEART, AMAZON’S GOOD OMENS IS A GAY SMIC ROM-AT HEART, AMAZON’S GOOD OMENS IS A GAY SMIC ROM

Fans of Good Omens have been shippg Aziraphale and Crowley as a gay uple for years, but thor and shownner Neil Gaiman ref to label them this way * is good omens gay *

Meanwhile, Crowley is perpetually followed by a soundtrack of on-the-nose Queen songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody, ” which blar om the Bentley he driv to the fal Omens is, at s heart, a smic gay rom-, wh bad-boy Crowley temptg Aziraphale to get out of his fort zone and enjoy life, while Aziraphale simultaneoly lur him to beg a better, ls selfish person. When asked directly if Crowley and Aziraphale are a gay relatnship together, Gaiman told a fan onle that, "They're an angel and a mon, not male humans.

Gaiman has nfirmed more than once that Crowley and Aziraphale are love, but labels like gay, bi or even pansexual don't que f this stance.

WHY GOOD OMENS BOSS NEIL GAIMAN WON'T LABEL AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY AS GAY

However, if Gaiman ever did ci to fe the central love story as gay or trans or ace, then that would also trample over other readgs which actually mean a lot to more margalised members of the queer muny. When asked if Aziraphale and Crowley were gay, Gaiman clarified that the meang of the term don’t apply to them as they aren’t two human men.

It’s not a big al [that they’re gay] ’s jt who they are.

They may not be 100% gay (celtial begs and whatnot) but Neil Gaiman has started on numero ocsns that they are love.

GOOD OMENS EP ADDRS WHETHER AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY ARE GAY

While he never nfirms what some rears have long spected—that Crowley uld be gay or bisexual—Gaiman has some advice for those takg the fan fictn game a b too serly: "Make fun fan fictn. "If I were to Pronounce on thgs that are not explicly stated the book, I still wouldn't be tellg you if Crowley was Canonilly Gay, " Gaiman nclud.

At the same time, those who want to label them as gay are not beg exclud, eher. In fact, terpretg Aziraphale as flat out gay even ma to the books:.

“Many people, meetg Aziraphale for the first time, formed three imprsns: that he was English, that he was telligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nro oxi. So ll them trans gay men.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* IS GOOD OMENS GAY

Good Omens EP Addrs Whether Aziraphale And Crowley Are Gay - We Got This Covered.

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