It turns out that all you better cure death is a magic blue mushroom.
Why a Magic Mushroom of All Things?
And so it seemed like, close to plausible, that a mushroom could have this much power.
As for blue, it’s just kind of visually interesting and exciting.
And so, and a lot of the characters…
They’re a little bit of a pariah in the science community.
You know, they’re not sort of taken seriously.
Hely: Well, there might be more to come on that, Russ.
Bennet: We were sort of cherry-picking from a lot of different things.
We pull it from a lot of different things.
What Was the Mission Statement for Common Side Effects?
“We Wanted to Say Something About the Way the World Is In 2025.”
Steve Hely: I think we wanted to say something about the way the world is in 2025.
We wanted to be real and natural and feel honest and true.
We wanted the characters to really come to life.
Who would be after them?
Where would it take us?
And be true to that.
It’s all really fun stuff, but yeah, it was a challenge.
And I think, to use the acting is a good example.
To see both sides and try and get the whole richness of it was a goal for us.
Joe had heard him talk quite a few times.
We have a podcast we do together, so Joe had heard him a lot.
And we tried out tons of other people, and a lot of them were really great.
They were just the right people to embody the designs that Joe had created.
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