When the television writer and producer Miranda Kwok set out to create “The Cleaning Lady,” a new Fox drama about an undocumented surgeon-turned-service-worker who begins working for a powerful crime syndicate to save her ailing son, she knew she wanted to shine a light on“When I was developing this with Warner Bros. for the first five months, it was right around the time that the unprecedented ICE raids were happening across the country,” Kwok recalls, singling out a day in August 2019 when.
Production designer Roshelle Berliner used photographic evidence to re-create the inside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, down to the Mylar blankets and the amount of food and trash in the overcrowded cages, making the documentaries that Yung and Millan had watched come alive in an unexpectedly visceral way.
When Thony and Fiona don’t return home from their shift and can’t be reached by phone, Jaz springs into action, deadbolting the front door and finding thethat are designed to help undocumented immigrants assert their rights in case of an unwarranted home visit. “We also wanted to make sure we painted a portrait of these women who are heroes in their own lives,” Kwok says, “and that’s why we wanted to make it clear that Fiona had a plan so that when she’s taken, the kids know everything.
But while Thony and Garrett are able to stop Fiona’s deportation bus in the nick of time, Gabby is repatriated to Mexico without her children. “The fact is, most people do get deported when they’re in that situation,” Kwok explains. “And it was only because of this extraordinary situation that Thony and Fiona were in that they managed to get out.”
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