Like a Rainmaker, he is an expert person to bring new businesses and income to a company, USA. He is betting on “The Rainmaker”, a new dramatic series that will premiere on Friday and based on John Grisham's best -selling novel in 1995, to bring the spectators of content written to the network.
Once a lighthouse of the “Blue Sky” series like The Light, driven by the character, the successful “Monk”, “Suits” and “White Collar”, followed by a darker rate like “Mr. Robot”, in recent years, Nbcuniversal, the US matrix company UU. live. In the last five years, the only series of scripts on the network was the second season of “Dirty John” (after the first season broadcast at Sister Channel Bravo) and “Chucky”, which was broadcast simultaneously in Syfy and USA. Uu. Until the series ended in 2024.
Either “The Rainmaker”, developed by Michael Seitzman and Jason Richman with Blumhouse Television, the beginning of a new era of series with scripts and spectators for the network remains to be seen, but the swing they are taking is large with a property known both in the literary space and in the cinema. 30 years have passed since the “Rainmaker” novel was launched, becoming one of the best -selling books at that time: 300,000 copies were sold in its first four days of launch. Adapt it to the big screen was obvious; Two years later, the feature film starring Matt Damon would reach theaters.
For the 10 episodes series, of which Grisham is an executive producer, Memphis's place in the book has been transferred to the current Charleston, SC, where Scrapy but brilliant graduate of the Rudy Baylor Law Faculty (Milo Callaghan) (John Slattery) The Werry Way. Desperate for a job, it lands in a less reputed company, J. Lyman Stone & Associates, owned by the hard lawyer Jocelyn “Bruiser” Stone (grill wool), whose other staff member is the Shifflet (PJ Byrne) that belongs to the ambulance (PJ Byrne).
But the pressure is done immediately when Bruiser asks Rudy blank if he has what is needed to be a rain creator for the company. Trying yourself can come before what you think when you dig in the mysterious death of the hospital of the son of a client who begins to look more like the murder, which opens a can of nefarious worms that keeps things heated for the first season of the drama.
Milo Callaghan plays Rudy Baylor in “The Rainmaker”, a character played by Matt Damon in the feature film.
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Here, the newcomer Callaghan and television veteran Slatterly talk about the fight on the screen, what his characters could learn from each other and the Callaghan challenges, a British native, had talked about a dialect of South Carolina, although the program was filmed in Dublin, Ireland.
With an adaptation like this, did you read Grisham's novel or did you stay with the program scripts?
John Slattery: I read the book and have a slower growth than the program, out of necessity. The program has to have more peaks to maintain people's interest, while the book seems to be a longer curve. But I was excited as soon as I read it. I thought it is good to be the antagonist about having something active to play. I thought: “You know, if we execute this well, it will be a really entertaining potboiler.”
Milo Callaghan: We had the 10 scripts from the off, which is quite rare, so I really deepened the scripts, which are so tight. I felt that it was very good on my chest. Then I saw the movie, I read the book and I think John Grisham is incredible.
What were your characters that attracted you when you signed?
Callaghan: Fundamentally, for me, Rudy Baylor is a child who is afflicted [his brother]And then he is trying to take responsibility for himself. His heart is always in the right place, and the beauty of the interactions he has with the other characters is that everyone guides him to realize that the world may not be the idealistic shelter he anticipated. Sometimes you have to learn to bend and move your lines in the sand, but it has a really strong moral character.
SLATTERY: You think Leo is one thing, and then you see a side you did not expect, but it is a self -written thug. And being a successful litigating lawyer, there is a bag of tricks with which he probably grows every year, so he is probably quite expert in using them all or whatever he needs given the situation.
Leo and Rudy do not get along immediately, something evident when Leo challenges Rudy on his first day and is subsequently fired. Why exactly Leo did that?
SLATTERY: The real reason that dismisses it is not, obviously, what he says, but perhaps he sees a threat in the child that his moral code could differ from the current administration [at Tinley Britt]So maybe you get rid of those people. But Rudy is intelligent and I think that Leo's ego probably sees any expert as: “You remind me of myself.” But the good thing about Leo is that you cannot trust anything he says, and that it seems interesting to me.
Callaghan: I would say they are more similar than you think. Both clearly have a gift for rhetoric, and both are optimistic. My feeling is that Leo has learned to stop his enthusiasm and learned that power is not necessarily crawling towards a situation. And let Rudy slide a lot. Many of his victories are giving Rudy the opportunity to shoot in his foot instead of shooting him in his foot, and that is definitely a learned behavior. But Leo is the guy everyone wants to be. It is a classical situation of David and Goliath.
Rudy is among the new employees in Tinley Britt, but does not last the day.
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Young lawyers like Rudy and his girlfriend Sarah (Madison Iseman), who works at Tinley Britt, clearly have things to learn from Leo – But do you have things to learn from them?
SLATTERY: I may not think so, but everyone does. And Maddie's character, Sarah, lets him know. He also looks in it, and maybe he sees something he could use for his advantage, which is his loyalty to Rudy. You are always looking to learn something, whether from someone or simply from cracks in your armor or the information you can get out of someone.
Callaghan: I was the youngest person in that set and, in the same way, Rudy is the youngest person in the business he is in. He has Deck and Bruiser and even Leo and all these people who have so many years with him and so many experiences with him. While I think he teaches them, they will attract him to a more realistic vision in the world.
There is a scene in the first episode in which Sarah is talking to Leo and drops fried potatoes on the floor to pick it up. Are we supposed to like them at that time?
SLATTERY: Do you really care what someone thinks about him, like these children who just start? I don't think I am concerned about anyone else's opinion. As for the audience, I am not sure how important it is whether you like Leo or not.
Legal dramas come with many scenes set in the courtroom. How was he working on that together?
SLATTERY: I bet that there is not much list of actors who go: “Oh, well, I can spend two weeks in the courtroom.” It is not often conducive, sometimes you say: “Wait, wait, what episode is this and what scene?”
Callaghan: John orders the presence, and is also very loose and never does so twice. It is always a dance. … Probably the greatest privilege of working with him is that it is simply different every time. I could be a critic and I could tell you what I thought about what you were doing, but that first day was fantastic. He got up and went to each other, and it really seemed to be a great moment.
SLATTERY: I think doing something in the same way is a waste of time. I mean, why do it double the same way? They already have that version. After having been on the other side and editing a lot and directed a lot, it wasn't until I really sank.
“John orders the presence, and is also very loose and never does so twice. It is always a dance,” says Milo Callaghan about his co -star in the courtroom. (Network Christopher Barr / USA)
Bruiser (grill wool) brings Rudy (Milo Callaghan) aboard his signature, and is challenged by moral questions. “His heart will always be in place, but it's an enigma, right?” Callaghan says. (Network Christopher Barr / USA)
Veterinarians like Leo and Bruiser are used to crossing moral lines, But how will Rudy react when his moral is challenged?
Callaghan: His heart will always be in place, but it's an enigma, right? Even in life, morality is something fun because, regardless of whether his heart is in the right place, no one looks at himself, except Leo Drummond, who sees himself as a thug. So, with Rudy, there is always an element of: Have you lived enough years or have you had enough experiences to determine what is right and what is wrong?
Milo, how challenging was the American accent? In addition to the program established in South Carolina, was Also completely filmed in Dublin, So you probably also had an Irish accent floating.
SLATTERY: I didn't know … the show state in the United States was that you are going to duplicate for South Carolina. That's how fucking it is in Los Angeles.
Callaghan: Any British who makes an American accent feels a certain level of anxiety, but I pierced it and perforated it. I had a great dialect coach named Jude McSpadden, who was fantastic, and she kept me on the way. So, also, PJ Byrne (Deck) was not shy when looking into my eyes from time to time and saying: “Why do you say it like that?” He had a large group of people who really were hypercritical when the accent fell, which was not frequent because he worked hard.
SLATTERY: Milo was basically in each scene, and is making an American accent to start, which does strange things to people. Your voice goes up an eighth or start walking differently. It is a little trip. But he did a great job.
