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148 | Jodie Foster on Building Truthful Characters

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Nel: A Woman Who Can Exist on Their Own

I always thought of Nel as this person who was independent and was really, I don't want to say a wild child because that's probably misleading. And so she was entirely in relationship with another person and does not know how to be alone at all. So she concocts the person and pretends that the person is there because there's no other way for her to be in the world. She wouldn't be able to live if she didn't have even the phantom of that person with her.And then when I finished the movie, I realized, wow, I wanted to make a movie about all of these things, but I had kind of done that in my whole life where I

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