Berg talks to The Hollywood Reporter about tackling the opioid crisis with the Netflix series (which reunites him with Taylor Kitsch), while also discussing 'Friday Night Lights,' 'The Leftovers' and his very resolved Vince Gilligan beef.
One of the most devastating aspects of the series, which Berg executive produced and directed, occurs in the opening minutes of each of the six episodes. A parent or couple appears on screen to read a standard legal disclaimer that some of the events of this true story have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
“Legal informed us late in the game as we were getting ready to lock the show that we needed to put a standard disclaimer in front of each episode,” Berg tells. “In this case, it didn’t sit as well with me. I thought we were letting the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma off the hook a bit with a disclaimer like that. So I thought about it, and then I suggested the idea to Legal that we try and find families whose children have died from OxyContin, and see if we could get them to read the disclaimer.
When Berg and his team eventually got the OK from Netflix’s legal department and solicited participants, the early response bowled him over. “We put a request out in just the Los Angeles community for any parents who would be willing to do this and tell their stories. And within the first 10 hours, I think we heard from 80 L.A.-area families who had lost children to OxyContin,” Berg recalls.
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