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133 | Turning Red Writers Domee Shi and Julia Cho Discuss Personal Storytelling Techniques

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Power of Puberty

"I always pitched it as this Chinese-Canadian girl kind of going through magical puberty and transformed me," she said. "It's funny because I did pitch it like a girl goes through magical puberty, but the initial version was ... way more plotty." She added that working with Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped them strip down the story.

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