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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 Build a Character From Shame and Fear

When you're building a character, I don't know if you remember this, but when we work together, you often started with shame and fear because the character was all the behaviors were trying to protect them from that. Can you talk a little bit about how you can you've gotten this part? You've taken it now you've need to build this character or even when you're a director and you're in development with a writer and you're building characters that way. Yeah. That's like a lifelong pursuit of understanding how to speak to people so that they can live up to their best potential,. Because I can't do it for them. They have to find that themselves.

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