Deborah Kaplan (born November 11, 1970) is an American screenwriter and film director.
I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.
I don't know if it [Mary and Jane] is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.
There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.
It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].
To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.
I actually didn't even think about "Josie and the Pussycats". I was like, "Oh yeah we kind of took some shots at MTV," but I think everyone had a good sense of humor about it. People either got that movie completely, or completely missed it and dumped all over it.
There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.
I think at a certain point we a little bit forgot that it was a pot show. I think I said something to Harry [Elfont], around Episode 7 [of mary and Jane], I was like, "We have a pot show. Nobody is smoking any weed. " There is literally a shot in the season finale where everybody lights up at the same time. I was like, "I feel like we are not honoring our concept. " It just became a show. It became a show about these two girls doing this crazy thing and getting into all these adventures and it was really not about the weed.
We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.
I have the Google alert for marijuana articles come on my phone everyday. There are some interesting ones that have come up that I file away.