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King of the Hill creator Mike Judge mentions his experience in Richardson  

Mike Judge, Creator of King of the Hill and Office Space, mentions Richardson, Texas in a web chat about his new film Extract. It is not the first time he mentions Richardson.

Mike Judge, Creator of King of the Hill and Office Space, mentions Richardson, Texas in a web chat about his new film Extract.
During the chat, he had the following exchange:

Q: While so many other comedies tend to shoot for these big company stories, you tend to reside in settings with small town folks as the main characters (King of the Hill, Office Space and now Extract) what draws you to these small town stories?

Mike Judge: I would say my stuff resides in suburbs of big towns also, or small towns that are near big towns. I guess that's because I've mostly lived in places like that -- Albuquerque NM, Richardson TX, etc. I think that a lot of writers in film and TV in the past have tended to come from NY or big east-coast cities, and there have also been great stuff written about really small hick towns, and so I feel like I can maybe bring a different perspective on things with a suburban setting.

This isn't the first time Judge has mentioned Richarson. In a New York Times interview earlier this year contained the following exchange:

Q. You’ve said that the Hills and their fictional home of Arlen, Tex., were inspired by your time in Dallas. Any place or person in particular?

A. It’s Richardson, a suburb of Dallas. I actually grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., and had a paper route in a blue-collar neighborhood. West Texas and eastern New Mexico blur a little bit, and I remember my brother and I just noticing that every adult authority figure used to have a Texas accent. There was always someone going [with a twang], “Excuse me, boys.”

The Extract web chat is HERE.
The New York Times Interview is HERE.

 

Last Updated: Friday, December 11, 2009
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