On whether he has worked with the writers on Calian’s plot points or tweaked any Native storylines, Justin Johnson Cortez said, “It’s about … telling the most truthful story you can. I’ll talk to the showrunner about it, and they’ve been amazing. If I come [up] with some thoughts or ideas or alterations to what they put on, they’re very receptive.”
“Walker Independence” encourages a collaborative effort with the show’s cast. Cortez continued, “Sometimes, it’s a back-and-forth of, ‘This is where my head was at when I wrote this’ [and] ‘Well, this is how I’m interpreting it.’ It’s been a great collaboration and process.”
There’s one storyline that Cortez pitched in its entirety. “In terms of Nascha, that storyline didn’t exist, and the 8-year-old girl that Calian encounters in Episode 3 was actually going to be a one-off, a funny little instance where Calian is being elusive and no one could see him except some little girl who spots him,” he explained. “I actually pitched to the showrunner, ‘Hey, what if she’s more than that? What if this is a vision that Calian is having for one reason or another, whether it be someone from his past or his family?’ He thought on it for a few days, and then he let me know about two days before we were shooting, ‘We’re going to run with that storyline.'”
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