Steve Yockey explains the imaginary space where Cassie returns to process the events happening around her in the HBO Max comedy series, though it's 'the last place she wants to be.'
This is the second time Cassie enters the mind palace, and Yockey says the scene originally was much shorter: “It was supposed to be this kind of disorienting quick pop.” The writer added more dialogue not just so Cassie had more of an idea of what was happening but also for the audience’s benefit. “It gave us a chance to establish that she wasn’t comfortable with the situation yet because it’s a weird situation, even for viewers,” Yockey explains.
“Cassie is extremely heightened — she’s at a 10 in this scene,” Yockey says. “She gets pulled into the mind palace, which is the last place she wants to be.” By the show’s second episode, Cassie is able to predict when she will be sent back into this cerebral place, but she’s not yet aware of what’s going on here.
“You learn a lot about Cassie from the way she behaves in the mind palace,” Yockey says. “That’s her internal space where nobody else is watching her, and so she’s her most raw and authentic.” Even though Cassie is asking Alex in the mind palace for an explanation for her predicament, she doesn’t yet realize he is, in fact, a part of her own mind. “It’s almost like she’s an unreliable narrator within herself,” Yockey says. “He only knows what she knows — he’s not going to be like, ‘Here’s a clue.’ ” This scene sets up the rules of the mind palace, even if Cassie hasn’t figured them out yet. “It gives you a sense of what we’re dealing with,” he adds.
This story first appeared in an August stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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