Inside the Untold Drama: Crafting a Trump vs. Anti-Trump RomCom with Erik Bork
Ashley
Like what were they concerned like who are these organizations and what kind of stuff were they concerned about?
Erik Bork
Well, it was like my you didn’t see this version, but like an earlier draft, like I think in an earlier draft, Trump supporting guy himself wanted to go to January six, like he was interested enough to go on his own. And then they were like, you know what, left-leaning viewers, which was me, but still I wasn’t thinking this way, are going to have a hard time with her giving him any chance at all if he comes back from having gone to January six. I was like, Yeah, you’re probably right. And so if it’s not, if it’s not believable, if it’s believable that she would have ever given a chance to begin with given her politics in his, it’s not going to be if he goes. So then I came up with the idea that he has this grandmother who’s more hardcore than he is, she wants to go and he almost, well, you have to see the movie, but like it is a plot point, but he’s much more open to hearing a different point of view, and not making politics so important or such a deal breaker, like he’s not as polarized, even though he’s, you know, a Trump supporter than the progressive is or that his own grandma is.
