In The Green Room
Darren Grodsky: Sure! Humboldt County is a coming-of-age drama about Peter (Jeremy Strong), a medical student in L.A. who has a kind of quarter-life crisis and realizes that he doesn’t want to be a doctor anymore. He meets a girl named Bogart, who is from Humboldt County, which is a real place about 200 miles north of San Francisco. It also happens to be nicknamed “the pot-growing capital of North America.” He ends up going back with her to her home and has a coming-of-age experience among pot growers in the middle of the woods.
Danny Jacobs: You’re in Humboldt County right now, aren’t you, Robyn?
RHH: Yes I am, I’m speaking to you live from Humboldt County, from Arcata.
DG: Right. I knew that, but I forgot while I was halfway through my synopsis. Did that sound rote to anyone? Because I felt like I was on autopilot. I wasn’t emotionally connected to it at all.
dJ: I zoned out completely, until the part where you were explaining what Humboldt County is to someone who lives in Humboldt County!
DG: At least you were listening closely enough to recognize my folly.
RHH: Describe Peter’s first reaction to being deposited into the scene of the Truman house in Humboldt.
DG: The attitude that Peter has when he arrives is one that many people have before they come to Humboldt, when they have heard that there are a lot of resident pot growers. We wanted to explore this notion of a guy who kind of judges the Trumans at first and then ends up really finding a lot of life in them once he eventually gets to know them.
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