There can be few shows in television history subject to the kind of scrutiny that met Chernobyl when its five episodes started going out on HBO in May. As most critics heaped praise on the show, wr…
, still others descended to pick apart every aspect of its storytelling, from the accuracy of the period details to its timeline of key events. Russian state television, even years after the fall of the Soviet Union, announced plans to create a competing narrative series around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, offering its own version of events that will suggest a CIA saboteur—and not Soviet mismanagement— was behind the meltdown.
And then, almost exactly three months later, we hear about this incident in the Soviet Union, and I remember feeling, for the first time in my life, we were talking about Soviet citizens like they were us. Not potential recruits into an army that was meant to kill us, but rather people going through a similar traumatic experience to the one we had just gone through ourselves.I came back to it later. I took a class in college with an academic named Stephen Cohen, who’s a well-known Sovietologist.
Even when people are tested—for example, the story that inspired Episode 4, where you have three liquidators going around to exterminate pets. I knew I wanted to tell that story literally just looking at Barry [Keoghan]’s face. He’s so expressive and so subtle that, when something changes, you realize that something large has happened inside.
The fact that the exclusion zone has become one of the largest wildlife preserves in the European continent is remarkable. And the fact that it stands there as a warning to us is remarkable. It doesn’t need to be a crippling warning. The warning of Chernobyl is not, ‘Don’t mess with science.’ It’s not even, ‘Don’t mess with nuclear power.’ It’s, ‘Be careful. Because when you’re not, people are going to die. And it won’t be the people who make the mistakes generally; it’s everyone else.
That new cover was in place. We went shortly before principal photography began, so I think it had been in place for well over a year at that point. It’s also beautiful in its own way too. You came out in front of all that criticism. You did their work for them. You presented a podcast for each and every episode of the show, running around an hour apiece, going through what’s presented.
Look, it wasn’t easy. But no show, no movie, none of them are easy. My least favorite phrase in reviews is when they call the creators of a movie or a TV show lazy. No. Listen man, you may not like it, but people worked 13-hour days, day after day. It’s hard to make a bad thing into a good thing. It’s a hard job.
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