“It’s a bit of a fairytale in there.”
It’s a bit of a fairytale in there."
“It’s a little bit like Sleeping Beauty.
Kate Winslet on ‘The Regime’.Miya Mizuno/HBO
‘I know you.
I walked with you once upon a dream.’
I wanted to carry that somewhat stylized, dreamy, middle European fairy-tale tone throughout the show.
Tracy says he’s held a lengthy fascination with the subject.
“I’ve long been obsessed with reading about oppressive regimes and autocrats,” he explains.
“It’s my comfort reading; God knows why.
It’s told from the perspective of servants within the palace.
Instead, he wanted something a bit more caught between two worlds.
“I was interested in something that felt like betwixt east and west,” he explains.
And a leader who craves the status of that in a dangerous, exciting way.”
Tracy didn’t write the role of Elena for Winslet.
He says he would have been heartbroken if he had and she had passed.
“So much of the character is wrapped up in the presentation and the image.
Kate was quite brilliant preparing for all of that.”
