‘Coastal Elites’ Scribe on the ‘Radical Disagreement and Extreme Passion’ that Inspired His Monologue Series

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When author, playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick first began writing “Coastal Elites,” the world was a very different place than the one in which it is premiering. “I started…

“I started working on ‘Coastal Elites’ over a year ago because everyone I knew on every side of the political divide had spent the last almost four years now enraged and passionate and heartbroken and so concerned about where the country was headed,” he tells. “And people have become so addicted to information from every social media platform, from every newspaper, every television network, and it was fascinating because I had never seen that level of engagement [before].

And thus, with some rewriting , the five monologues were given to Bette Midler, Dan Levy, Issa Rae, Sarah Paulson and Kaitlyn Dever and became a special presentation premiering Sept. 12 on HBO.The five monologues take place between January and June of this year and are not all told linearly, but the first one is the one set in January. Starting ahead of the pandemic allowed Rudnick to still keep a focus on the time “when we were in an area of pure politics 100% of the time,” he says.

Characters such as Paulson’s, who Rudnick references above, turns to her online community to vent in a moment of “such total emotion [she] just had to share it,” he notes. Other characters are speaking a bit more intimately: Levy’s is doing a virtual therapy session, while Rae’s is video chatting with a friend. Since the format of the show is to keep the characters in monologues, though, the people on the other end of those conversations are never seen, nor heard.

 

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