I remember seeing the end of an episode and thinking, "Oh my God." HE LIKES HIS VAMPIRES SCARY. You need a good pitch. Showrunner Carlton Cuse, who also worked on this year's Netflix fantasy Locke & Key, sat down with The Independent to discuss "two problems" Lost faced during its run. Birth Name: Anthony Carlton Cuse. We started with this very traditional afterlife desert space where he sees his mother and himself as a young boy. The … I was like, "Oh my God, that's right … there are people who write and direct movies for a living." It's probably why Damon decided not to adapt anything from the original Watchmen [graphic novel]. Showrunner Carlton Cuse (Lost) and star Corey Stoll (House of Cards) on teaming with Guillermo del Toro for FX's graphic new horror series. It's a collaborative art form. CARLTON CUSE It was only about seven degrees from insanity. Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. NICK CUSEI feel like the earliest memory is not a specific one but just this image that was recurring from as long as I could remember, of my dad sitting at a keyboard, playing musical scores. Sophia’s sister Diana listed herself as “Hebrew”. From left: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse at the March premiere of the feature film The Hunt. Carlton is the son of Susan and Arthur Cuse. He is married to Christiane Hart, and has three children, including filmmaker Nick Cuse. NICK You would be a good dentist! Apple lands “Five Days At Memorial,” from Academy Award winner John Ridley and Emmy Award winner Carlton Cuse. I'm going to be Quentin Tarantino. But the fear and the adrenaline that arises in those situations is a critical part of the creative process. CARLTON I knew nothing about Hollywood before I came out here. The revelation moment for me was when the filmmakers of the movie Airplane! His parents are American. Nick was always really interested in what was going on there. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. CARLTON All through his teenage years — mainly with his friends Max and Justin — Nick was making movies. I was writing all of the time. It's amazing that got to be my first, and it's still the thing I'm proudest of, for sure. I remember one time picking him up and he'd clearly been swimming. The father and son sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about their careers as writers, their observations of each other's practice across the years, their mutual experience with Lindelof and a shared fascination with pulling teeth. Bates Motel (2013-present) – Carlton Cuse is the … Damon Lindelof may be the obvious creative common denominator between ABC's Lost and HBO's Watchmen, but there's another bloodline pumping through the veins of those television masterworks: Carlton Cuse and son Nick Cuse, veterans of the heralded island drama and the recently launched (and allegedly concluded) comic book adaptation, respectively. Astrovskiy and Astrovskaya are Russian, but it’s possible for Jewish people to have that last name. NICKOne hundred percent. NICK Definitely. rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Justice Department opens policing probe over Breonna Taylor's death, Biden’s fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat. NICK I feel like you're always listening to an action movie thing …. Won: Outstanding Drama Series (2005) I well up inside with these feelings about it. It was a cool exposure for them. For me, it just felt like a thing people's parents did as a job. Carlton Cuse has been an actor, writer and producer for more than twenty years. CARLTON That's the great thing about television. Do you expect to work on discovering some of those alchemic moments on a project together someday? NICKI really don't think you can do a successful straight-up adaptation of a story that was in another medium — like, trying to directly transpose it. His parents, Susan Sophia (Spurzem) and Arthur Robert Cuse, were American, and his father was working in Mexico for Cuse's grandfather, who had a machine tool manufacturing business. Today's Netflix Top 10 Rankings; CARLTON CUSE: We wanted to have a big twist at the end. Is it possible they were Jewish? rcel.src = "//trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=76341&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); CARLTON We need to come up with a really good show about dentists …, NICK Hmm, they've already done the dentist who kills people …. “When I was approached about turning The Strain trilogy into a TV … Robert was an engineer and businessperson, and was born in Riga, Latvia, of Baltic German descent. That whole year, that first year with Damon on season one of The Leftovers, was the most instructive period of my life. Showrunner Carlton Cuse talks to Indiewire’s Michael Schneider about the post-‘Lost’ years, how he ended up working on three shows at once, and about the development of the very expensive new Amazon show, ‘Jack Ryan.’ The series takes the fictional CIA superagent from … rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; CARLTON I showed up in Hollywood cold and worked as an assistant to a studio head and didn't know anything about the world or the business. They were Jewish. Generation Next: Nick Cuse, Alice Englert, Chet Hanks Carve Out Careers Beyond Their Famous Families ... Carlton Cuse has landed five series orders, three pilot … What's the key to the adaptation process? What are your first memories of your father as an artist, Nick? Carlton’s paternal grandfather was Robert Cuse (the son of Waldemar Cuse and Margaret Berzan). Christiane Cuse--Wife. I love that challenge. I used to think, "My dad makes procedural TV shows, and I make short films. CARLTON Wouldn't it be better if we were dentists? NICK I remember always showing stuff to my dad to get feedback, but I don't think we really talked too much about story until later on in life. For the show’s co-executive producer, the two share a fundamental ability to engage their audience with a key ingredient: a compelling story. Carlton Cuse Getty Images. That's a part of our relationship that bloomed when we were adults. Am I the only one who thinks these names sound Russian? Carlton Cuse. It's very scary and hard. Carlton Cuse - Arthur Carlton Cuse (born March 22, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer and director best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time magazine list of t Carlton, how do you think being a father has impacted your career as a storyteller? Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. CARLTONVery much so. I promise you, it's not something Damon would give away to anybody. CARLTON I showed up in Hollywood cold and worked as an assistant to a studio head and didn't know anything about the … Some days you're focusing on breaking stories and other days you're worrying about the budget and how to produce something on a schedule. He had an intense, insatiable curiosity about the process and always had a question and another question behind that question. var rcel = document.createElement("script"); Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof Pick Their Favorite Cultural Moments of 2010 By Jada Yuan Cuse (left) and Lindelof eschew sugar plums for zombies, Cee Lo, Tom Hardy, and Danny McBride. Learn how your comment data is processed. “Dolgin” might be Jewish, but I’m not sure about “Astrow”. CARLTONI do, yeah, but not at all phases in the process. Then it became me making videos, little narrative movies with my friends when I was 12, right when iMovie started to exist. But Carlton Cuse ’81 doesn’t think it’s a stretch at all. It was the emotional fodder of what we were exploring in the show. Yes, if the information on the marriage record is correct, I think Sophia was Jewish. Tip the cap toward Nick Cuse, co-writer of that hour as well as the riveting season (and potentially) series finale of Watchmen. There are definitely larger forces at work about fatherhood in terms of how I want to lead my life. You don't have to be the best at any one thing, but you have to be really, really good at 10 different things. var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); May 18, 2017, Cuse in 2015, photo by kathclick/www.bigstockphoto.com, Ethnicity: German [including Baltic and Alsatian], one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, distant French. Carlton Cuse on the set of Netflix’s Locke & Key with actor Jackson Robert Scott (left). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (function() { I worked as a TV executive's assistant before that, but on the first season of The Leftovers, I was a writers' assistant, which is basically like the court stenographer, sitting in the room and writing everything down. CARLTONDamon is not only an incredible writer, but an incredible human being. })(); Ethnicity of Celebs | What Nationality Ancestry Race © 2021. Carlton is the son of Susan and Arthur Cuse. Nick Cuse, Producer: Maniac. Mary was born in Minnesota. NICK It's weird; I don't listen to any music when I write. CARLTON I liken being a showrunner to being a decathlete. You're only ever seven degrees from insanity. One day we were breaking for the day and Damon took me aside and said, "Do you not want to write this episode? I'll go walk around the block, listening to a score on Spotify, thinking about what I was doing, then sit back down again and start writing without the music. Checking in With ‘Bates Motel’ Executive-Producer Carlton Cuse An interview in the shadows of the original 'Psycho' house. Arthur Carlton Cuse (born March 22, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer and director best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. NICK In the past year, we started talking about it in a more serious way. Arthur Carlton Cuse (born March 22, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. They do, in fact. We were skating downhill the whole episode. 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