A version of this interview first appeared in the print edition of TheWrap Magazine’s Fall TV Issue.
ABC’s “Speechless” stars Minnie Driver and John Ross Bowie as a middle-class couple with three children, including a teenage boy with cerebral palsy, who move to an Orange County, California neighborhood they can’t afford but want to live in because of its school district.
What makes the show special?
JOHN ROSS BOWIE: I think there’s an inherent challenge in this material. There’s a way to do it where it’s very maudlin and overly sentimental, and there’s a way to do it where it’s actually kinda tasteless.