When The Americans creator and producer Joe Weisberg was a CIA officer in the early 1990s, he became a virtuosic liar. “I lied to all my friends and most of the people in my family,” he told the New York Times. “I told 20 lies a day and I got used to it. It was hard for about two weeks. Then it got easy. I watched it happen to all of us.”
It was the norm; he operated with spies leading double lives. “I was working around people who lied to their kids about what they did.”
Weisberg might still be lying to family and friends today but for his decision, just before he took his first foreign assignment in 1993, to quit the CIA and look after his ailing father. “Only later did I think about what I went through and saw it was fascinating material for a television drama.”
The result is The Americans, which starts its fifth…
Secrets, lies and the new cold war: how The Americans became truly topical TV https://t.co/NEeeNepC6A
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