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37 | LIVE From The London Screenwriter's Festival: Writing Emotion

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What Is Likeable and Unlikable?

The final frontier of quote unquote, likeability is beauty and thinness. I can't wait for us to be brave enough to have more main characters who aren't thin and gorgeous. There's nothing more boring on the world to watch than a perfect person. And those movies about perfect people were skewing them or we're setting them up as bad guys. The next time you decide you have to be perfect, think about that.

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