Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
So, it was just basically between the first and second season of “Necessary Roughness” and it was a very short, intense period of time. It was a little like getting the band back together, because we all knew each other. There was this shorthand that was really useful.
Scott: Let’s talk about “Necessary Roughness.” You’re an executive producer on that. If you’re at a party and someone says, “Oh, what’s that series about,” how would you describe that?
Jeff: It is based on a real‑life woman who was hired, who had a practice in New York, and is this fantastic New Jersey lady named Donna Dannenfelser, who’s got long nails and blingey jewelry and crazy hair and all this sort of stuff. She had a small practice in New York and then got a call one day to come be the sports therapist for the New York Jets. And so she went from helping women with eating disorders to dealing with some of the most highly‑paid, highly confusing, highly big‑issues players in a sports setting. So that was the premise that Craig and Liz sold to USA and created as a pilot and shot as a pilot. And then I was brought on to be for them what Steve Maeda was for me, which was somebody who’d basically come on the show and mentor them. And they, like me, took to it like a fish to water and have been doing it since.
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