The Weekenders 21st Anniversary Celebration Week — Characters: “It was a complicated process. At one

The Weekenders 21st Anniversary Celebration Week — Characters: “It was a complicated process. At one point Carver was supposed to be Egyptian. I was doing a sketch show at the time with a friend of mine who was at the Groundlings and I met Phil LaMarr in the backstage. I said: “He’s very funny in that Mad TV show, maybe we should get him for Carver” and then we liked him for that character, so we thought: “Let’s make that character black.” Tish’s character was originally a weirdo. The first version of the show... we didn’t make a pilot, but we recorded the first script so we could listen to how they sounded together. Her character was just crazy and it did not work at all. At some point I was talking to our executive on the show who had gone to Yale - where Phil went, also - she was very, very educated, very smart. She seemed like she probably had been a know-it-all at school. So I decided to use that for the character. Just make her this smart girl who likes being smart who is a little bit - just a little bit - smug about it but also someone who doesn’t understand why other people aren’t interested in things she is into. The character came together from there. My biggest regret is that none of the characters are Latin, which seems such a missed opportunity. We didn’t call the show ’San Diego’, but it is set in San Diego. The town was called Bahia Bay which is ’Bay’ in Spanish. I don’t know what we were thinking. Half of the kids were Latin, a third of the people I was working with were, I don’t know why we didn’t do it. The actress who plays Lor is Latin. We had all these opportunities to see it in front of us! A few years later I did El Tigre, a Latin-themed show, and I felt really stupid.” - Doug Langdale (The Movie Podcast) -- source link

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