After a year of work, my piece on writing and contemporary Hollywood has been released as the cover of the May issue of Harper's. ... harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

men do not even go AWOOOGA anymore and hit themselves over their own heads with a mallet while their eyes pop out of their sockets. due to wokeness

So I thought it might be useful to share a few thoughts on how to widen your network. This is purely from my own experience of both sides at various points - looking for work & being approached. I’m sure others have different ideas & I’d love to hear them so please do add…

I can’t remember a time in my career when things have felt so unsure. A clusterfuck of issues in the industry (& wider) culminating in so many brilliant people looking for work. I’m emailed daily by dev/script peeps wanting to introduce themselves/advice & opportunities. 1/?

Spotted this on Insta, can't see it on Chris Barnes Ⓥ here...
The Curse- Damn I hope this is a series of character posters! 😍😍 wouldve been awesome art for the show originally Tom Davis Allan Kamal Arif Mustafa Hugo Chegwin Emer Kenny James De Frond
PLEASE SELL! 🤩

Whenever I think I really can't do something, when I'm overwhelmed, when the odds are truly against me..... I swear to god... I think of Kung Fu Panda. He overcame so much.

Sandra Hüller just destroyed the concept of method acting

I’m lucky enough to have a room to write in. It has nothing in it except a desk and a chair and a couch that I thought would be great for reading and thinking. I was wrong. I’m a writer, on a deadline. It’s a crying couch.

“I got rejected from every school I applied to as a playwright.

I recently re-read the play I submitted - I think it’s pretty good.

Yale didn’t agree.”

- Greta Gerwig

@ Beyond Words Writers Guild Foundation

#KeepWriting

Alexei Navalny was buried to the soundtrack from his favorite movie, Terminator 2 – the scene where Arnold sinks into the vat of molten metal and gives a thumbs up

Joke fails to land in pretty spectacular fashion

Thank god. THIS WAS STRESSING ME.

And he listens to BBC Radio 5 Live 💪🏼

Now that’s an album title.

This beautiful piece from Leslie Jamison nails so many of the feelings of returning to work after having a baby

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Terrific profile of Sofia Coppola by rachel syme (still hoping for the miniseries of The Custom of the Country to be made): newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

.Rebecca Nicolson, lauren o'neill, Amelia Benjamin, Emer Kenny and more TV writers and critics rank the 50 best British TV episodes of the 21st century. trib.al/Z5cItE7

There’s a point within every script I write where I really honestly feel that it’s going to be 200 pages long, completely incoherent and delivered with an SATC post-it note attached, ‘I’M SORRY, I CAN’T, DON’T HATE ME -’

Double BAFTAs for Lauren Lyle for her work in Karen Pirie. Proud of you ya wee powerhouse. 💜