Unveiling Kristen Tepper: Secrets Behind Her Most Captivating Stories Revealed!
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My conversation with the 2022 Black List writer.
Kristen Tepper wrote the screenplay Better Luck Next Time which landed on the 2022 Black List. Remarkably, Kristen’s script made the Black List before she had signed with a manager.
Here is my interview with Kristen.
Scott Myers: Congratulations, Kristen, getting on the Black List in 2022.
Kristen Tepper: Thank you.
Scott: I’d like to learn a little bit more about your background. First of all, I think you’re from the Chicago area. Is that right?
Kristen: I am, yes. I’m very proud of being from Chicago. I grew up in the south suburbs, Oak Forest, Orland Park area. I go back a lot whenever I can. I think the city is just one of the best set‑up cities in the country, so I’m very like ride or die.
I’m in LA now. I don’t know if it’s cold in Chicago right now, but it’s nice here today.
Scott: Were you always interested in movies and television?
Kristen: I think I was always interested. I feel like my mom says this to me all time. She’s like, “Ever since you were really little, you were like, ‘I’m just going to go work and live in Hollywood.’” She was like, “I never brought you to California. There was no reason for you to want to go to that place.” But I really love movies.
I think I saw, I feel like it was probably “The Goonies” or one of those adventure movies that I saw. I was like, “Oh, I want to make that. I want to do that. I want to be a part of all of that.” I still need to go to the rocks that are up in Oregon from “The Goonies.” I think it was one of those. I was just like, “Yeah, that just seems like a better job than a nurse or a teacher.”
I was terrible to my teachers. Those poor, poor people, so I couldn’t imagine being them. From there, I think I was writing a lot of fanfiction online. I was really into reading “Nancy Drew.” I was always a big book person. I think that’s what kind of gave me an idea that this was a career option, at least reading books and then seeing shows like that and movies.
Scott: There was a “Nancy Drew” series on for a while. Were you a fan of that?
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