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How Do You Know if You're Going to Go Blonde?
Catherine Cool Birdie starts life as Karen Kushman's YA novel in 1994. I think it was kind of what started my lifelong fascination with sort of my lifelong anglophilia had been stoked, but this really set it on fire. And when I was 23 and trying to figure out what my next movie would be, I wrote to Karen and she very kindly, who does not live in England,. She writes about medieval history, English medieval history, but lives on a small island off of Seattle. So you can do that math. Did she agree to let me do it and then it was a 10 year process from optioning the book to getting it to the screen because it