How much of the Loft was described, like the mattress on the floor?
That’s something we talked about long before the pilot. We would talk for hours about Michael, “He’s a spy. How would he live, what would he like. He wouldn’t sit in that chair.” That’s an element and the look of the show was discussed way back. It’s hard to discuss scripts because we have big changes. We do so many sets every week that a lot of times it’s hard to track where the idea came from. How much detail do you get down to our props? Incredibly so. Mark and I are pretty specific about some stuff. Why is it so important to have such a deep level of detail on the sets? Whenever you visit a set it’s amazing how deep you go with even if it doesn’t show up on camera. There’s two real reasons. We don’t know what the camera will eventually show when we’re building the sets. Usually you only see three or four things, but until a shot is locked down you really don’t know. The other thing is it inspires the actor when they can actually see things from the real world. Sometimes an actor wi
