"Crackles with wit and creative energy"
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"Everything is layered in truth, whether it’s an awkward first meeting, honest conversations, irresistible lust, or the kind of heart-puncturing fights that only happen when you know a person inside out."
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OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING Hiro Murai
"Petty, Jealous and Messy Human Things Percolating Underneath"
Director/EP Hiro Murai reflects on his collaborative relationship with Donald Glover," with all good collaborations, a lot of what works is sort of unspoken," said the Emmy® nominated director. "We are kind of interested in the same sort of minutiae in character stories. We like error, things that feel kind of thrown away."
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Hiro Murai on Following Donald Glover from Music Videos to Comedy Series to Drama
"It's more complicated in the beginning because you’re really kind of finding your sea legs, but also, there’s a lot of joy in the exploration and the finding, especially for a show like Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It could have been so many different things tonally, especially given that it came from the idea of a movie initially," says the Emmy® nominated director/EP Hiro Murai. "Every day, we were kind of chipping away at the tone."
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Hiro Murai Drops the Cocky Confidence and Cool Gadgets to Take on the Spy Genre
"I naturally gravitated to [framing] John and Jane as small figures inside this opulent, cold space where the only place they can find human connection is with each other," says Murai. "Especially in the pilot, it's a subtle game of push and pull where our characters are trying to get closer while not revealing themselves too much."
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