Connie Britton Reflects Back on "Nashville"

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She was not going to allow the whole story of "Nashville" to become a battle of young vs. old.


“When I read the pilot I never saw it like that,” she says.

“I really saw it as an opportunity to show something that’s happening very currently in the culture; the idea of the internet and all the new media and how it’s changed the music business. It was an opportunity to reflect the culture. Sometimes things go through marketing and get watered down to the lowest denominator and it was starting to be like young vs. old has-been and I hit the roof. I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, that’s not the sorry we’re telling or who the character is.’

It was important to me because I want to be reflective of the women that I see in the world. It’s not my life experience that when you get into your 40s suddenly you’re irrelevant and don’t have anything to offer. It’s the opposite. That’s never a story I want to tell.”

http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/20/connie-b...-vulture-fest/