“I feel like we’ve taken this picture before,” Greg said, and that’s because we have, more than once, over the last four years! Crying screaming sitting in my spray tan too long and turning orange, but this beast of a book is in.
The first time I spoke to @brunapapandrea, it was 2014 and she had just sped-read an early copy of Luckiest Girl Alive. That was the year she produced Wild and Gone Girl and was in the process of casting a show no one watched called Big Little Lies. I was SO nervous to speak to her—I held the superwoman pose in my office at Self magazine for a full minute. The New York Times once appropriately described Bruna as having a “machine gun cadence” and I was grimacing and sweating trying to decipher every word she was battering me with about all the various paths we could take to develop Luckiest Girl into a movie. I was too intimidated and overwhelmed to say what was really on my mind, which was—I will follow you anywhere, just please, please, let me write it, even though I have zero screenwriting experience and you have an arsenal of talented and award winning writers you could call on to do this. It took a few weeks, with @michellerweiner working the sidelines and helping me rehearse the ask. Bruna was quiet at first—something I remember bc it almost never happens 😉, then she said, “I’m sending you a book.” (It was Minghella on Minghella—by her mentor). Seven years later we’ve got a movie on which I am the sole writer—which I’m told is a rarity for an author in this industry—bc Bruna took a chance on me when she did not have to. I know I went to Greece to celebrate YOUR birthday, Bruna, but that will always be your priceless gift to me. Thank you to the moon and back, and happy big fat Greek birthday to you🍀 💜 🇬🇷
The first time I spoke to @brunapapandrea, it was 2014 and she had just sped-read an early copy of Luckiest Girl Alive. That was the year she produced Wild and Gone Girl and was in the process of casting a show no one watched called Big Little Lies. I was SO nervous to speak to her—I held the superwoman pose in my office at Self magazine for a full minute. The New York Times once appropriately described Bruna as having a “machine gun cadence” and I was grimacing and sweating trying to decipher every word she was battering me with about all the various paths we could take to develop Luckiest Girl into a movie. I was too intimidated and overwhelmed to say what was really on my mind, which was—I will follow you anywhere, just please, please, let me write it, even though I have zero screenwriting experience and you have an arsenal of talented and award winning writers you could call on to do this. It took a few weeks, with @michellerweiner working the sidelines and helping me rehearse the ask. Bruna was quiet at first—something I remember bc it almost never happens 😉, then she said, “I’m sending you a book.” (It was Minghella on Minghella—by her mentor). Seven years later we’ve got a movie on which I am the sole writer—which I’m told is a rarity for an author in this industry—bc Bruna took a chance on me when she did not have to. I know I went to Greece to celebrate YOUR birthday, Bruna, but that will always be your priceless gift to me. Thank you to the moon and back, and happy big fat Greek birthday to you🍀 💜 🇬🇷
The first time I spoke to @brunapapandrea, it was 2014 and she had just sped-read an early copy of Luckiest Girl Alive. That was the year she produced Wild and Gone Girl and was in the process of casting a show no one watched called Big Little Lies. I was SO nervous to speak to her—I held the superwoman pose in my office at Self magazine for a full minute. The New York Times once appropriately described Bruna as having a “machine gun cadence” and I was grimacing and sweating trying to decipher every word she was battering me with about all the various paths we could take to develop Luckiest Girl into a movie. I was too intimidated and overwhelmed to say what was really on my mind, which was—I will follow you anywhere, just please, please, let me write it, even though I have zero screenwriting experience and you have an arsenal of talented and award winning writers you could call on to do this. It took a few weeks, with @michellerweiner working the sidelines and helping me rehearse the ask. Bruna was quiet at first—something I remember bc it almost never happens 😉, then she said, “I’m sending you a book.” (It was Minghella on Minghella—by her mentor). Seven years later we’ve got a movie on which I am the sole writer—which I’m told is a rarity for an author in this industry—bc Bruna took a chance on me when she did not have to. I know I went to Greece to celebrate YOUR birthday, Bruna, but that will always be your priceless gift to me. Thank you to the moon and back, and happy big fat Greek birthday to you🍀 💜 🇬🇷
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Life handed us lemons but we made limoncello, @jeannesnow !
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Had a break, been working hard, took a week off, did NOT get a suntan 👒🧴 and I’m coming back bc baby it’s GO time 🍀 🎥 🍿
Making this tiktok of our week in Greece really clarified for me that @mikebarker27 IS the story arc, the plot, the theme, the POV, the conflict and the resolution. Guess I’ll be over here enjoying my side character summer!
Anna Kournikova if she chopped her hair, shrunk six inches and was pale.
Anna Kournikova if she chopped her hair, shrunk six inches and was pale.