"I had to create this character and didn’t want to be beholden to anything outside," Price said at the HBO panel for the series at the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour. "With King’s blessing, I made the character [of Holly Gibney, played by Cynthia Erivo] mine. I wanted to do my thing. Mr. Mercedes [the book or series] did not exist in the world of The Outsider. It’s just, 'Forget everything you knew about Holly.' I asked King to change her name to make more of a separation. The only directive he gave me was 'Just keep the name.'"He had originally written Gibney as a white Lithuanian from a coal mining town but Jason Bateman insisted on casting Cynthia Erivo, so the character's backstory was tweaked. So King's baggage on this issue may not be so relevant.
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