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Awards-season roundtables are one of the countrys few institutions worth preserving.
Where else can we get screenshots ofGlenn Close looking like shes about to kill Lady Gaga?
Or clips of Kathryn Hahnbeing desperately in love with Rachel Weisz?
What about Christopher Plummer absolutelytearing Terrence Malick to shredsbecause the director needs a writer?
Actually, Plummer brings up an interesting point: Many films require writing; all, even.
Kushner, being the non-director at the table, is the only one who obliges.
And I think most people cant do it.
(Not pictured: everyone who has ever attended a college improv show nodding in agreement.)
He and Spielberg had a lot of fights duringWest Side Story.
Someone check on Rachel Zegler.
A great bitchy writer opinion from the writer ofAngels in America!
But the other writers, as writer-directors, dont really agree.
Almost every setup, we give the actors one or twoDo whatever you wants.
Give me something that, as a director, I wouldnt think of, and well see.
Or Samuel D. Hunter, who adapted his own play intoThe Whale.
Even one of the three nonBaz Luhrmann writers ofElviscould have shared why there were fourElvisscreenwriters.
Kushner needs a friend to bitch about actors with, and we all deserve to see it.
