“Behind the Curtain: Discover How One Journalist is Unearthing the Untold Stories of Hollywood’s Hidden Screenwriters”
So that’s the mission statement of a lot of my journalism work interviewing writers—to give a little spotlight to a vital part of the filmmaking ecosystem that is overlooked and under-respected, in my opinion.
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Through your interviews, have there been any tips or pieces of advice that have truly changed your approach to writing?
So many! Lily Wachowski [The Matrix] inspired me to be so much more brutal in excavating parts of myself and putting them on the page after talking about that during her appearance on the show in 2023. More recently, Leslye Headland [Russian Doll, The Acolyte] recently told me: “The first draft is a dangerous neighborhood,” which is advice I wrote in all-caps on a post-it note and carried around with me everywhere (what she means by that is, when it comes to a first pass of a script, get in and get out the way you would venturing through a shady part of town because loitering is not going to end well for you).
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