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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 216605" data-attributes="member: 102">There is no pitfall because the producer or showrunner, whatever they're naming the top person in charge, still has control of the final product.Notice I said: "I'm in favor of the cast having some creative input over their characters. Sometimes the actors know their character better than the writers do."Creative input is good, particularly with the actors who know their character very well and are also highly creative because you never know when they may have a good idea. Allowing them input has at worst, an end result of the producer rejecting a suggestion the actor makes.I didn't say to give them creative control. There's a distinct difference between allowing them to contribute ideas that may or may not be used and giving them the power to use their own ideas whenever they want.I suppose that works if the writers know the character better than the actor does.In Larry Hagman's case he actually was a Texan, born 60 miles outside of Dallas. He knew how people there speak. Suppose a writer from New York gave him a script and Hagman said: "JR would never say that line that way." Would you tell him to just use the New Yorker's words and somehow "make it believable"?  Or would you rather have him say it in a way that the style and the terminology are authentic to his character?</blockquote>