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148 | Jodie Foster on Building Truthful Characters

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Text Your Therapist When You Can't Stop Crying

Paula Malcom: I didn't choose to be an actor. When did you come to this conclusion? Like was it as an actor? When did this happen for you? What was that moment of aha? He says he found acting boring and couldn't imagine why we had to keep rehearsing these lines over and over again at different shops. At 12, Robert De Niro threw some improvisation at me in Taxi Driver. It never occurred to him before that I was going to have to do anything more than just be natural. And then there was everything satisfying about the job because I hadn't been giving myself enough credit.

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