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122 | What Do Professional Actors Look For In Good Scripts? (ft. Allison Tolman)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Is There Any Advice for Actors?

I don't know why any writer would want to go try to be an actor. That sounds terrible. I come from a position of like great privilege in that I have a successful acting career. And so, you know, last year I wrote and directed a short film because I wanted, I want to move into directing and I wanted to know what that was like. So yeah, the idea of a practice and setting outside time where that's what you do is really huge for me.

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