Inside Greg Wayne’s Creative Mind: Secrets Behind His Most Captivating Stories Revealed
Scott: You mentioned Michael’s paranoia. Talk about that, how this condition increases in intensity as the story progresses.
Greg: The thing is, Michael creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. Moya brings in Jean’s friend Colin to be Michael’s understudy, and Michael immediately freaks out. He thinks, “This guy’s 15 years younger than me and they’re bringing him in to take my spot.” So, Michael wants to secure his position and demands more creative control, demands a better contract, demands the name of the show be changed from Riverdance to Michael Flatley’s Riverdance. And he just drives Moya so far up a wall that she has no choice but to fire him. So, Michael, in his paranoia and fear, manifests the exact thing he didn’t want to happen – he’s fired and Colin takes his spot.
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