And it could have been a real mess so we dodged a bullet across South Carolina more than 150000 customers still do not have power Charleston Mayor John tackle Burke says getting the lights back on and clearing roads is a major part of the recovery we've got over $100.00 local streets and roads a few of a major streets that are out of service right now says as his city's springs back to life will be watching Dorian's path in North Carolina and offering whatever support he can Bobby Allen N.P.R. News Charleston House Judiciary panels convening a hearing in the Texas border city of El Paso today Texas Public Radio's Lauren the hospice reports the testimony will focus on violence aimed at immigrant communities El Paso Democrats. 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I'm Christopher Campbell from the extreme radio this week I travel to free to Maine to chat with Aaron French chef and founder of Los kitchen one of the most exclusive restaurants in America also in this week's show more joke is on the wild wild world of pumpkin spice and Dr Eric Carroll answers the question should we avoid high mercury fish coming up this week on the radio from parents listen tonight at 9. This is FRESH AIR I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross our guest Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in the H.B.O. Series The deuce its 3rd season premieres Monday the deuce's about the intersection of prostitution pornography organized crime cops politicians and feminists in the Times Square area of Manhattan in the seventy's it's also about changing attitudes toward sex in that period and how pornography became more mainstream the series was co-created by David Simon who also created the wire and co-created Tremaine the 1st season of the deuce was set in the early seventy's Gyllenhaal plays candy as the series began she was a sex worker but after she was beaten up by a John she looked for a safer alternative she started acting in cheap porn films became fascinated by how films are made and decided she wanted to direct the following season scripts ahead to 1977 when porn has become more mainstream Candy's been acting in and directing porn films but she wants more control over the stories and wants them to reflect a woman's point of view in this scene from the 2nd season she's unhappy about the latest film script and the fantasies they're creating she tells that to her boss the porn films producer Harvey played by David Krumholtz. For dealing with trees and the rather. The religious now not just the famous me stayed up all night writing a senior master hired me this was a script. I'm I'm trying to say something about more than once religion in this movie it's a statement yes ma'am when in fact they did more or. Anything else. Yeah . I had to learn any more Daddy Knows Best See that's a fantasy that's a my life and all of that someone's fantasy Harvey you want me to keep and now films for you. You've got to give me some better. To work with and you have got to let me start trying some lines from my thoughts otherwise All right absolutely. I've also been thinking about something. That's a clip from the 2nd season of the deuce set in the late seventies season 3 jumps ahead to 1905 Maggie Gyllenhaal character Candy has become more confident as a filmmaker in the porn industry but her efforts to make erotic films from a woman's point of view are becoming less viable even though the industry continues to expand with the introduction of video in this scene from the 1st episode of the new season edited a bit for broadcast Kandi and her boss Harvey are arguing over how to keep their company afloat I have to turn products. And our customers on. To Mars and they are mostly they are mostly excuse me degenerates Yes we look at that ballroom tomorrow who's browsing who's buying who's taking pictures what men. Are we still having this conversation after all those years were a good filmmaker but the feminist porn is a product that I can no longer invest in OK it is negatively impacting our balance sheet. So go to your plan the European and US that will start making a different kind from St Paul I. Like everybody else. That's the business owner that's a scene from the new season of the deuce which premieres Monday on H.B.O. I know to parents will be talking about sex work in the porn industry and you may not find it appropriate for young children. Maggie Gyllenhaal welcome to FRESH AIR Welcome back thank you I think you're so terrific in the series was it difficult for you to decide whether to take the role on the one hand you have like David Simon co-creator of The Wire and trim a and 2 great writers Richard Price and George Pelecanos who among their other credits wrote for The Wire on the other hand it's about the sex industry and you play a sex worker who enters the porn biz 1st as an actress then as a director the subject matter gives it the potential of being exploitive of women so what did you need to know before accepting the part before feeling confident that you had a read on how the women characters and how you as an actress were going to be treated. I think the thing that was unusual about this project for me was that when they asked me to do it they only had 3 scripts written and. You know I'm interested in the themes that this project is dealing and you know I didn't have a problem with playing a sex worker full stop you know but yeah I feel nervous with only 3 scripts and already in the 1st 3 episodes like my clothes off most of the time and. And yet very very drawn to it very drawn to working with David and George and Richard. And also drawn to. The things that were clearly on the table and how I mean it was a valid. It was about even from the very beginning. An imbalance of power between men and women in terms of Sachs in terms of our in terms of business it was about desire it was about transactional sex in the way that's kind of a part of almost every bit of our culture at this point but you know I basically I I met with them and I really wanted to do it after talking to them I mean David George are so smart and interesting but I I guess I'm old enough and I've been through enough. I knew I didn't quite have enough of a guarantee that I could trust it so what did you ask for so that you can find out more in figure out if you could trust the material I asked to be a producer how is that going to help. Well basically what I wanted was to be a part of the conversation to be in the room you know I've said this before but I think it's a good way of putting it like I knew they needed my body and I wanted to make sure that they also wanted my mind because I thought I'm an asset here you know not not just not just as an actress I guess and I wanted to use that part of myself and I thought it could be helpful to the story that they told me they were trying to tell. I really wanted to do it which is the you know if the my bargaining power wasn't like all that strong but I had to say to myself I'm not going to do it unless I can be a producer because I think that that will give me this other kind of guarantee in terms of storytelling and and they gave it to me and so I did it so you wanted to be in on the conversation of how your character was going to be depicted has sex was going to be depicted one of the issues in the deuce is how on the porn sets to treat women respectfully while having them perform sex. That's something that I imagine applies also to filming the deuce because the actors like you have to perform sex scenes and I'm sure you insisted on treating being treated respectfully though maybe you didn't need to insist maybe that was just a kind of given onset but Were there conversations you had around that is like how how should the actors and actresses be treated so as not to. Violate them in any way wash. Noting the scenes and ditto for the scenes when you were a sex worker working the streets. You know we as a crew and as actors learned a lot about this as we went the 1st season. And of course in between the 1st season and the 2nd season there was the Times Out movement which brought to light a lot of things that I think people didn't want to see before that it made it impossible not to see and made a lot of things explicit So the intention was always from everybody to be as respectful as possible season one I was one of the people who was always you know I mean I had my clothes off all the time I was doing the simulated sex scenes and I realized for me the most important thing was to have a physical barrier between me and the day player who had never met before who I was doing this scene with so we sort of fashion and there was nothing like this before like what do they use out of girls what can we call them. On the T.V. Series Girls Yeah I would think they must know what do you what protection do you got do you do those I mean I've done a lot of sex scenes in my career but I mean not quite like with strangers you know and that was something that was hard to do it with strangers it's very intimate so we fashion this kind of thing that would keep you know protect us physically from actually being even in contact through thin layers of clothes feels like too much you know you need some real tech to do so we figured that out and we shared it with everybody but really the 2nd season I think we we made a really big change which was amazing which was that. I had been to some meetings of actresses talking about things simple things that we could change on facts. And someone suggested at one of them that you know when you do a fight scene in a movie or a play there is always a stunt guy there always to make sure you're physically and emotionally protected if something doesn't feel comfortable you can go to the stand in fact they even look and see if after the stunt you might be sort of unconsciously rubbing a part of your arm or something and not come and say you know right to hurt and actress one of these meetings suggested why don't we have that for sex scenes and so on the Deuce in the 2nd season we did we had this woman who was the intimacy coordinator we called her and she was she would call the actors the night before she'd say I'm here to to make you comfortable and this is what your contract says Do you still feel comfortable with that because you don't have to do it and she would be there she would help with the choreography of the sex scenes and she would check in with people and the truth is for me like you said I feel like I could say this doesn't feel right hold on some things off I do know how to protect myself at this point but I felt for people who were coming in for one day who are so happy to have the gig and you know don't feel comfortable saying who might not feel as comfortable as I do saying . You know I actually don't feel OK with this anymore that's what she was there for and I read this piece actually that one actress wrote in The New York Times about coming on our set and how great she felt with Alicia you know I was like. That's what a leash is there for is there anything from the physical barrier that you came up with that is describable on radio with radio standards Well basically it was the piece of the yoga mat put inside a pillow case. And we would just play that pillow case as if it were part of the sheets and then push it out of the way in order to continue on with the scene this is like I said For me it wasn't nudity so much I like the idea of what a human body brings with it artistically to a worthwhile story and my body I mean I'm 40 I I like that. I don't know I didn't I really didn't mind including my body in the storytelling I was doing but I wanted protection from like you know people I barely physically you know so that was a good solution for me you know and there you mentioned a players a lot of day players because all of all of the Johns some of the characters in the porn films they don't figure into other episodes so they are the day players who the women characters are having sex with right and the idea is I mean if you want to make it not a pretty woman. Well then in a way you have to show OK there's this guy and then 2 hours later there's this guy and then there's this guy and then there's this guy. That was a part of it and it wasn't easy well let's take a short break here and then we'll talk some more if you're just joining us my guest is Maggie Gyllenhaal She stars in the H.B.O. Series The Do's We'll be right back this is FRESH AIR. Next time on the New York Radio Hour Salma Rushdie on his new book. Inspired by Don Quixote the book is a kind of road novel and a portrait of life in Trump's America it's a funny book I hope but it's also kind of Assad book I think about a war very worried I mean I do think it's part of the right shoes to provide. Next time on the New York. Sunday morning. This is FRESH AIR And if you're just joining us my guest is Maggie Gyllenhaal who stars in the H.B.O. Series The deuce and she plays a sex worker who has become a porn film actress and director and is trying to show things more from a woman's point of view in her porn films there's one scene I want to ask you about where she's with you know a John a customer in a cheap hotel room and he starts to like slap her and hit her and she takes out she you take takes out some mace from in her purse and sprays him and he's like shocked and temporarily blinded she uses that as an opportunity to run to the door to get out of this hotel room but the door is locked and by the time she she unlocks it he's like dragging her back in by the hair and then the door closes the camera stays on the outside of the room you and John are on the inside of the room so we don't see what's happening but we hear how your character is being really badly beaten up and I'm wondering what that scene was like for you and how how it was filmed so that you didn't get hurt. Yeah well that scene for me I would say is like I know it was affecting to watch because it best to let to direct it it is a beautiful director and yet for me it was very clinical like OK we choreographed it we did it of course I was protected everyone made sure that my body was protected and I okayed everything we did and. That scene felt like a dance and we did the dance actually there did come a time when we were shooting that was like OK we need to stop now because I can feel that my neck is turning get sore and if we do this too many times I'm going to end up with an injury and this is when is willing to buy the hair was that probably are some. Thing I don't know thrashing around on the bed or whatever but I'm much more interested in scenes that require something difficult or complicated or a difficult map to have to walk emotionally you know so the scenes that follow it where put the make up on and they go out on the street and I loved the scene with with Method Man who who played one of the pimps who's trying to get me in a stable and he's like you you know basically that is the scene where I went this scene is life or death either I died and I agree I just give up I give up my autonomy I give up my sense of power I give up my sense of self and I join up with them and I just slowly die. Or I get off the street and. I don't know I think that isn't that like the way doesn't that happen in some way even though most people aren't doing sex work on the street in New York in 71 is not it's not sort of the question that many people have to ask themselves at some point like wait and my going to like my you know live now. Or am I going to slow it down is an interesting scene too closely you're talking about the emotional complexity like you're feeling very vulnerable at that point because you've been really badly beaten up and now you're back on the street again. And so when when the pimp like tells you like you need someone this would never happen and I protect you. Like you are definitely pushing him away at the same time you're in tears and you weep in his arms temporarily and you can't help doesn't have a dad yeah you know that's the whole thing that's set up in the whole 1st season that she has the dad and the whole pimp thing like they're always condom daddy you know and I do feel like she just wants support she just wants someone to take care of her and she never asks for that too much and so he knows just what to do to try to get her and and he doesn't I think he doesn't know s