'Rooster''s Showrunner Reveals Why They Burned The House Down And Why 'War And Peace' Is Involved

I want to say that this show is as much about Charlie Clive, who plays his daughter, her journey as it is his, because we took great pains to describe a young woman who hasn't become autonomously independent yet. So even when she got to this school, she takes the time to say she got in a relationship really quick before she could develop a community, and if she's going to have a journey to finding out who she really is and being an independent woman, the best way to start is to strip her of everything and have her lose her marriage and burn her house down and just have everything that she touches be a disaster. The war and peace thing is actually kind of funny, because do you remember that part of that joke came from the fact that I messed up who wrote what? There was a quote that I would, when I was in college, that no one must be humiliated is this real Chekhov quote, and so we wanted this to be a, we wanted to use, we made him a Russian. I thought it was a Tolstoy quote. And he thought it was a Tolstoy quote. Because I'm not book smart. Matt's smart and I'm dumb. And so we decided that Steve would be that dumb and say that he had presented his whole argument based on Chekhov and that he doesn't like, and then Phil doesn't like Chekhov. And so that's based on our dynamic, because even though Matt seems nice, he's constantly giving me crap about how much smarter he is. And the annoying thing is, is he is much smarter than I am. I'm more charming. That was a really fun one to film because there was pyrotechnics, I'd never done anything with pyrotechnics before, which is, and it makes everyone a bit giddy. And there's a lot of men around the set, of course, and there's fire around and all of them were so excited. Which is really funny to see a group of grown men, like really eager for things to burn. And that was fun. And some of it was real and some of it wasn't. So there's lots of them being like, okay, react to your left. And I was like, ah, and that was, I enjoyed filming that very much. Also, the war and peace thing is just perfect because it's such a pretentious thing to just sort of have out. And the idea of it being a first edition is, I think that Archie is a very lovable kind of like supervillain to Katie in many ways. And to burn war and peace felt quite perfect.