Meet the Sunnyside Forged, One of many Most Numerous Teams on TV
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Sunnyside, NBC’s new comedy co-created by and starring Kal Penn, assembled probably the most various casts on tv…possibly ever.
The brand new collection, named after and set in New York Metropolis’s Queens neighborhood, stars Penn as Garrett Modi, a former New York Metropolis councilman who goes on a quest of redemption educating immigrants the teachings wanted for them to move the citizenship check.
Penn mentioned he had wished to do a present like this for a while and it wasn’t till he met with Matt Murray and Michael Schur that they developed a premise that labored. And from the beginning, illustration on and off digicam was crucial.
“I imply we wished the solid to appear to be America as a result of it is, it is a patriotic American comedy,” Penn advised E! Information.
“Doing a present about immigration, you type of must, and we actually did not wish to have like one particular story,” Murray mentioned. “I really feel like there is a narrative that immigration is one factor. It is individuals coming in and also you get a stamp they usually simply get to reside right here. There’s so many various methods to go about it, and folks coming from somebody right here from locations and have so many various particular challenges that like I feel we wish to simply current it as, it isn’t a monolith, it is a multifaceted factor.”
Along with the various solid, which you’ll be able to meet under, the writers room on Sunnyside is staffed with immigrants or youngsters of immigrants, save one staffer. That, clearly, was executed by alternative.
“We wish to be certain that we get these tales proper and ensure they’re relatable. It was very cool and enjoyable and simple to construct a writers room that manner,” Murray mentioned.
Sunnyside premieres Thursday, Sept. 26 at 9:30 p.m. on NBC.
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