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25 | Q&A w/ Pixar's SOUL Screenwriter Mike Jones

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Is There a Tone Off in the Opening Scene?

"I like brooding fucking characters. I do," she says of her character on "The Walking Dead" The show's creator, Jonathan Smellich, has given Lorraine the freedom to write what she wants and not be judged by others' opinions. She was shocked when he wrote a note in which it said: Your characters can be broody. He then explained how that word is used for female anger rather than just being angry at male violence.

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