Regarding that negative person — Louis C.K. — how did it affect things at Amazon?

He wasn’t involved, but his name was on it. That brought a lot of power, even if he wasn’t working on it day to day. His people were involved day to day. I do want to give credit to Amazon. Amazon let us make exactly the show we wanted to make.

Any examples of how that power was exerted?

I don’t want to go much into it. But one of the most powerful people in comedy was executive producer on the show, and the networks and studios were excited to have him. I meanwhile had found out he’s not who I thought he was, and so I wanted that separation.

You played a prominent role in bringing forth revelations about Louis C.K.’s misbehavior with women, both on your show and in subsequent interviews. What is your opinion of what happened to him and how the #MeToo movement unfolded?

We were in production on a TV show that was trying to crack that open and have that discussion and have the light shining on this behavior. Nobody in the “One Mississippi” writers’ room thought for a second that this was being teed up at the same time as this huge movement was about to rear its head. We were shocked, and we were elated. I hope it continues. There are different signs that this is not stopping. I don’t think that anger and frustration and those feelings can go away. I hope they don’t. The attention and support for the victims needs to be continued, more than people worried about these abusers and what’s next for them, how are they going to move on — shut up.

What do you make of talk about if or how these disgraced men should come back?

You know what? If any of these people come back, I would say, “I can’t wait to see who is actually going to support them.” That is going to be the glaring horror. Who is going to be, like, “This is a pressing issue, and we need to get them back?” If a janitor was so great at cleaning the building but also tended to masturbate in front of people, would the people at that building be like, “Yes, he masturbated, but I’ve never seen anyone clean so thoroughly, and I was just wondering when he’s going to get his job back, he’s so good at it.” No, it would be, “That’s not acceptable.” It’s fame and power that people are blinded by.