Whose idea was it to make Roseanne Conner a Trump supporter?
Was there always a plan to have her grandson dress in non-traditional attire?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The episode started with a joke about Roseanne thinking Dan was dead.
Roseanne was on board doing that as well.
We thought it would be fun to have him give her crap for killing him off.
Originally I thought, like everybody else, that she would not be a supporter of Trump.
We had debates and discussions.
They really believed Trump was going to do something for them.
It made sense when we really talked about it.
Im no fan of Trump at all.
Some people were new to the show.
We had to keep reminding people that this is not how we feel.
Once you made that decision, did you find it pretty easy to come up with the Trump jokes?
Like the one about the Russian dressing?It was a balancing act.
But we found them.
We had to dig deep.
Why did you have Jackie choke and vote for Jill Stein?We just thought it would be funny.
The most obvious thing would have been she voted for Hillary.
She didnt even vote for the person she wanted.
Roseanne has such a hold on Jackie that she panicked.
Lets talk about the character of Mark, Roseannes grandson.
We did a lot of research.
The hardest part about it, weirdly, was the terminology.
Were not saying the kid is trans.
Hes not even at that point.
My son had a friend who was 5 years old and he dressed like a girl.
Ultimately he turned out to be gay, but he wasnt trans.
We didnt want to put all that weight on the kid.
He really is a kid who is non-traditional and right now he wants to dress like a girl.
Were saying, who knows what will ultimately happen?
That point of view was very much pitched by her.
It was really great.
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