It's deeper than that.' It's about something that I really felt was going on culturally at the time, which was huge amounts of self-loathing, and people trying to transform their lives, as I was, by doing the wrong things, by fixing their lives externally instead of internally."Įventually, Murphy approached Greer Shepard and Michael Robin, both of whom he has worked with on the WB's short-lived Popular. "And I was like, "No, it's not called Nipperson and Tuckerman. And I remembered this experience."īut when Murphy tried to explain his concept for the show, most people thought he meant a sitcom. You need to take a risk yourself.' So it was something I was going through personally, wanting to shake things up. Before I got the idea for Nip/Tuck, what kept resonating in my head was, 'You need to do something with your life transform it. The story never did get written, and a career crisis eventually led Murphy out of journalism and into television production. "The things he said really resonated with me." "I left that office thinking, 'Well, maybe I can be happier if I get my ears pinned,'" he commented. (A line in the pilot - "Beauty is symmetry" - came from this consultation.) Then he listed all Murphy's other physical imperfections. "I went into this thinking I was going to write a very snarky, sarcastic story about plastic surgery," he said, "but I was so moved by these people and why they wanted to change their lives, and how they thought they would find love or better jobs or things like that, so my antennae went up."Īt a subsequent meeting, the plastic surgeon observed that one of Murphy's ears was a millimeter higher than the other one. The images stayed with him for years, augmented later in life by a journalism career and research for an undercover story about calf implants in which he interviewed past patients of a plastic surgeon. And the images of that were always very haunting to me, about somebody who thought they could be happier by changing their face." "It was promoted as, 'Watch Liz Taylor get a facelift!'" he recalled. For Murphy, who was about seven years old at the time, it was a seminal event. Nip/Tuck creator and executive producer, Ryan Murphy, discussed his long-time fascination with plastic surgery, which stemmed from the 1973 film Ash Wednesday, starring Elizabeth Taylor as a woman who transformed her life with plastic surgery. On April 28th, 2004, a Behind the Scenes panel discussion with the producers and casts of FX headliners The Shield and Nip/Tuck took place at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, in North Hollywood, CA. Nip/Tuck made one of the strongest showings ever for a basic cable show when it debuted in July 2003. In other words, what is on the surface may be pretty to look at, but it's what lies under the skin - literally, spiritually and metaphorically - that really ignites the fireworks. Watch just one episode, and you'll find what really makes this show sizzle is not so much what's seen as it is what's felt. Although gorgeous guys and girls abound, physical attractiveness isn't the only thing on display in FX's slick and steamy drama about a yin/yang pair of plastic surgeons searching for both personal and professional fulfillment in Miami. In the world of Nip/Tuck, beauty is definitely more than skin deep.
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