Ben Platt (BenSPLATT)'s ThePolitician inspiration: 'Election,' a Parkland survivor and blind ambition
, the dark comedy about a high school election starring Reese Witherspoon as an overachieving would-be class president, and"In true Ryan fashion, he had it all very much fleshed-out, and it has all come very much to fruition," Platt toldduring a press junket in sunny Santa Barbara, Calif., the town where the show's first season takes place.
Platt also drew on a real-life figure for inspiration: Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky, who has become an outspoken activist following his school's tragic mass shooting in 2018. Another real-life parallel is more of a coincidence: One storyline tackles the way Payton is admitted into Harvard — he's adamant that he make it in to the school on his own merits rather than thanks to his stepfather's massive wealth. At the time the show was filmed and written, the college cheating scandal that involved actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin hadn't broken yet.
The themes at play tackle everything from privileged entitlement to sexual identity, but at its core Platt says it's "an examination of blind ambition and how far one will go. When does ambition become a bad thing, and when is it a catalyst? And also just setting up a universe where the assumed reality is one that we would very much like to be ours as far as the way the gender identity and sexual identity [is tackled].
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