{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Write On: 'The Residence' Creator & Showrunner Paul William Davies","description":"\u201cI didn\u2019t really set out to make Cordelia (Uzo Aduba) quirky. I just wanted to make her distinctive. I just really thought about who I wanted her to be and how I thought [birdwatching] would be an interesting way for her to approach her job. And the very first thing that came to me was just her use of silence and her ability to just be comfortable in situations that might make other people uncomfortable. And it\u2019s a quality that I\u2019ve seen in certain people that I\u2019ve always admired and been fascinated with because there\u2019s nobody quite like Cordelia, but I\u2019ve seen glimmers of it,\u201d says The Residence creator and showrunner Paul William Davies about creating his lead character Cordelia, a detective who uses her birdwatching skills as framework for solving cases.  On today\u2019s episode, we talk with Paul William Davies about The Residence, the new Shondaland show streaming on Netflix. Set behind closed doors at the White House, The Residence follows an offbeat detective, Cordelia Cupp (Aduba), as she investigates the murder of a lead member of the White House staff. Davies says the idea came to him watching a hearing on C-SPAN that went into details of the White House\u2019s layout. But the show is more than just a game of Clue set in the upstairs-downstairs world of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The show goes deep into character and offers plenty of laughs along the way.  Davies talks about what he\u2019s learned working with television revolutionary Shonda Rhimes, the intense work that goes into structuring a murder mystery, and shares his advice for anyone who may be working on their own TV mystery.   \u201cI think it\u2019s really important that you think about what the environment is that you\u2019re having this murder mystery in, and making the motive something that feels like it\u2019s related to the world that you\u2019re working in. In most murder mysteries, the murderer is doing it for money or for love or lust. And that\u2019s probably in 98% of the ones that you read. And that\u2019s fine\u2026 But I think really giving a lot of thought to, what is the motive here? How do I keep it organic to this world and these people, as opposed to it just being grafted onto it, which I think sometimes does happen. Make sure that the killer is doing something that feels like it\u2019s part of that world for a reason that is related to that world,\u201d he says.    To hear more, listen to the podcast.    ","author_name":"Write On: A Screenwriting Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.finaldraft.com","html":"