“Line of Duty” creator Jed Mercurio may have broken records with the last (and, he has claimed, final) season of the hit cop show but he admits he still has to navigate rejection.
“I think everybody has to persuade and cajole [to get work],” Mercurio said during a panel at the virtual Creative Coalition Festival in the U.K. “I don’t think that there’s anybody in the industry who just gets opportunities given to them. Certainly from my perspective, I’m constantly generating new ideas and proposing new work and most of it gets turned down. It just does and that’s the reality.”
“I think it’s important for people coming into the industry or who are in the early stages of their career to understand that you just have to keep coming up with new material because there’s no guarantee that the thing you’ve worked on is going to be accepted and propel you…
