![]() We were careful, and then we had to give you the physicality, because she starts attacking them. I walked her through everything, saying, "These are the beats we rehearsed," as we normally do on my episodes. How did you help Lauren Ambrose get to that place? We've been building to this moment for so long. Tell me about getting the moments when Dorothy wakes up and remembers everything. That driving me as a human being during this story was compelling, that "How can good exist if that happened?" There just can't be, right? There just can't be anything good in the universe. And I just thought it was like, if that happens then there just can't be a God. Then I had seen a documentary on the tragedy of, they call it hot-car syndrome, where the child is forgotten in the car. We hadn't figured out at that point what exactly had happened. It was Tony Basgallop who brought the pilot to me, and that was in the pilot, a mother whose child had passed. What made you want to explore grief like this, about losing a newborn baby, something that's not often tackled in mainstream pop culture. Like many of your projects, Servant deals with very emotionally heavy material while also being entertaining and scary. And 10 will be the unstoppable force that is Leanne. ![]() Then, if I can, I'll do 10, but, if I can't, I'm going to do 9. That's when it got, okay, this is episode 9, which I'm going to direct, wakes up. Then, when the pandemic happened in the middle of season 2, I was able to just take a deep breath and architect out the rest of the show. ![]() In the middle of season 2 is when we realized, okay, this is the movement of a fallen angel that they can't stop. So what is Leanne's architecture came when the cult came in. Then, eventually decided, no, that should come at the end of the show. It was just a last-minute idea that we went, "Oh, my God! This is what the show is about." Then, in season 2, the breaking away from the cult informed us of mythology, and said we always knew the mom and the family, they're not having this conversation: When will wake up? When will they have the conversation? When should that conversation happen? Should it come at the end of the season? What should it be? Really, there was an inflection moment at the end of season 1, where Tony, the writer, brought the cult in in a big way. PEOPLE: How much of this ending is what you and the team had envisioned back in season 1? Servant, Season 4, Episode 10 Lauren Ambrose and Toby Kebbell in "Servant," now streaming on Apple TV+.
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