Sert's interest in revisiting the past through the media of the past started with tonya harding. She was fascinated by her story and wanted to write something that would express that. Sert: I think i'm also a contrary person, and it's just natural that any time something becomes your job, you're like, i want to do this other thing.
Sarah Marshall is a writer and hosts the podcast You're Wrong About.
”I love it when people tell me that listening to the way I talk about these people in the stories that we tell, and just about the world generally, has made them practice empathy more. I almost feel like I have preserved this a-little-bit-past version of myself, because I've been on this journey throughout the pandemic of becoming pretty cynical, and then deciding cynicism is a luxury and that it feels better, ultimately, to try to believe in people.”
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