
Episode 4 | Lisa Yuskavage and Tamara Jenkins
Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
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IVF Drama - What Was the Inspiration for Private Life?
Tamara Jenkins went through infertility drama with her husband when we tried to have a child. The movie is about a couple in the throes of fertility, what really I was interested in writing a movie about was about a marriage in middle age, like not a young marriage. It's so amazing that artificial reproduction never existed because it's such a different moment for us as artists. We can tell our stories if they are told by women who don't want children.
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