11/28/2023 0 Comments Concrete utopia script reading![]() “When we talked to business people we were told that there are young people now who are brilliant at performance reviews but terrible at their jobs,” Sitch says. The premise for Utopia – the latest project from the team who brought us Frontline (1994), Thank God You’re Here (2006) and The Hollowmen (2008) – was an office beset by absurdity. The first time I went to Rome I thought, ‘Now this is a piazza!’ The highlight of our city square was when the Occupy movement decided to take it over.” ![]() “There were 15 plans and all of them dreadful.” Meanwhile, young people were invading the city’s laneways.īureaucrats love using European terminology to impress, he says: “I can tell you a concrete wind tunnel is not a ‘piazza’. “Melbourne lacked a harbour and an opera house so they tried to make up for it with a city square,” he says. One of Sitch’s favourite schemes-gone-wrong is in his hometown. You can’t take the absurdity of public policy too far on screen, he says, or people will stop believing you: “You’ve got to be a lap ahead but not too far ahead or people will think it can’t happen.” “Obama spent $US11bn on fast rail and the trains are still slow.” ![]() “It’s amazing how many projects start with great fanfare,” Sitch says. Too often in real life, he says, these sort of projects start with a grand vision and descend into farce: all good fodder for comedy. The eight-part series follows the working lives of a small team of bureaucrats, led by Sitch, who guide building schemes from first announcement to unveiling. “The attorney general doesn’t know anything about IP addresses and the guy that ran OzEmail is now the communications minister and nobody bothered to tell him!”įor Sitch and his fellow Working Dog creatives Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner, researching Utopia meant simply keeping an eye on the news, and in particular on announcements about big infrastructure projects. Most of all, I’ve always wanted to work with the writer Im Me-a-ri and the director Kwon Yeong-il, so I didn’t hesitate to choose this project.“Today you find out the only person not consulted in cabinet about changes in the communications portfolio is the communications minister,” says Sitch during a chat about Utopia, which debuts on the ABC on Wednesday night. I chose to star in this project as it fulfills all those factors. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Park Bo Young who was taking on another project where she falls in love with a fantastical character after ‘Abyss’ with Ahn Hyo Seop went with her instincts as she said, “When I choose a project, I focus on whether I find it interesting, relatable, and whether it makes me wonder what will happen next. I found the concept of the one who destroys everything falling in love very interesting.” On being asked about the reason for picking this particular script, Seo In Guk who made his long time comeback to TV following the success of melodrama ‘The Smile Has Left Your Eyes’ revealed in an exclusive conversation with Pinkvilla, “I was intrigued by the script and the character. Planning on returning after a 2 year and a 3 year break each, the two actors made K-drama fans fall in love with their magical world. This has in turn given them a massive fan following and allowed them to pick unique characters to broaden their career spectrum. Park Bo Young and Seo In Guk have both established themselves as star performers with each planting some very impressive roles under their belt. ![]()
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