I like having fun with what i do, the subjects have to be fun peoplei they often are. Is any part of this hard for you? Yesits a hard job. There's a lot that's hard. But it's a wonderful job. I mean, to get to meet these incredibly talented people,. jammy strong first and foremost among them. To hear him talk with such depth about how he does that, i was riveted.
Michael Schulman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He recently profiled Jeremy Strong of Succession.
”There's an interesting moment that's part of this job where you’ve spent a lot of time with someone and it often feels very personal and very intimate. And then when you go to write the piece, you have to sort of take a breath and say to yourself, Okay, I'm not writing this for this person. I'm writing this for the reader.”
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