We spoke w/ 'Vampire Academy's julieplec and Caryshotwife about the importance of the show's relationships.
From showrunners Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre and based on the best-selling book series by author Richelle Mead, the Peacock original series Vampire Academy is set in a world with powerful Royals, half-vampire Guardians and savage Strigoi, who threatens to tear it all apart.
PLEC: As a matter of fact, even when we were developing it, in the early stages and doing the first couple scripts, we kept getting the note, “These girls should have a much stronger point of view about the society that they live in.” We kept pushing back and saying, “No, that’s the point. You don’t understand. These two young women have been left in their own bubble, to be best friends with no rules and no one judging them, at least not to their faces, for their entire lives.
MacINTYRE: It’s wonderful. That’s really sweet, but also, what’s amazing is having come up and having been allowed to produce. One of the things that’s happening in our business is that writers aren’t really producing so much anymore, and that’s unfortunate because, to be able to go to set as a staff writer and be on set for your show, and actually begin to make decisions and recognize what those decisions do and how they play out, is such a training ground. That’s the reason I can do this job.
Since you guys have worked on shows about young people on broadcast networks, you know the struggle and the challenges that come with certain limitations for content and language.
PLEC: We’re both big fans of romance. I’ve built an entire career on love triangles and longing and passion, and those kinds of things. This doesn’t disappoint. Certainly, Rose and Dimitri, when I read the books, was the thing that kept me coming back for more. Their journey was so exciting and so heartbreaking and wonderful, and I did not set out to screw that up. What’s fun about it is that neither Dimitri nor Christian perhaps look or sound like you think they would, if you’ve read the books.
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