“At the end of my daughter’s School Term, Just Before Summer Break, The Teacher Asked Her and Her Classes to Writer A Letter to Themselves As If the Daya Writing to The FIRITING TO THEIRYERY. School Year. The Idea Was to Be ABLE TO GIVE ADVICE TO THEMSELVES BASED”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Hey Will, It’s Me Here, You, From The Future, I Wanted To Send You Some Advice As I’ve Just Been Through What You’re About To Go Through, And I Learned A FEW Thing.
Firstly, I KNOW YOU’RE PANICING, AND TRUST ME, I KNOW HOW ANXIIUS YOU GET, But I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU DID IT! Or you will do it. But Also, I Don’t Want To Lie To You, It Will Be ToUugh. Preping in an actors strike, Moving Production Dates Back, Lozing Hods, Yes that’s All Going to Happen, and there will be Times WHERE IT Looks Like It’s Not Going To Happen. Like, at all.
But The Good News is, You’ve Got A Great Team with You, You And Brett Picked Well. YOUR PRODUCers Are Smart, Boots-on-The-Ground Guys, and They’ve Done this a Million Times, You’ll Know This Because they’lli Kep Telling You Every You Panic DIRECTING CAREER IS OVFORE IS EVEN REALLY STARTED.
Bute’s Some Good Writing Advice for You, Maybe Next Time Dime Write A Script That Has 25 Locations in It, Especialy Hen You’ve Only Got 23 Days to Shoot It in. That’s a ball acche, and i’m sure i’m speaking for the whol crew who i say that. Rear Window, 12 Angry Men, Clerksthey are all set in one location. Just saying. Room WAS SET IN A ROOM. I’ll STOP NOW.
The good news, again, is that you get through it, and the movie is Actual Better Off for It, You Find Some Great Places Up in Small Coastal Towns En Masse, and Endearing Ourselves to The Locals with Ease (Some of that Is Not True).
But the big thing i wanted to let you know, and i know this had worrying you from the moment of you found you were getting the money to make this, is that you absolutely. YES, YES, YES, BRETT OBVIUSLY MOMES AT THING, AND YOU KNOW How Great He is, And Yes, You Know How How Great Poots Is Because You’ve Seen a Ton of Her MOVI Highlights of your Career to Date – is seeing just how good they are together.
But, Good Tip Here, Don’t Tell Anyone, they’ll Think that is Partly Down to your Directing, and that’s a good Thing. Now, that’s not to say this “DIRECTING ACTORS” Thing is Not Without Its Bumps. Firstly, It’s A Tricky Transition Going from Co-Writing Partners to Director and Actor with Brett. It’s A Different Beast, That Shorthand You’ve Spen Years Developing Is Not the Same Shorthand Wayn Talking About Performance. Listen to Poots, She’s Worked with a ton of Actors and Directors, and She Knows What She’s Talking About. She’ll Call You. Take the call. IT’s A Good One.
And listen to your Producers WHEN THEY YOU THAT MAST ACTORS DON’T Like Being Told That You Like Their Other Take Better Thanks. And also, this is a big one, if you want an actor to relax in a scene, don’t every-iter-iter-iter tell atm to “relax” just before you go for a tack, it have has the opposite. Sounds Obvious Now, Sure, But When Been Shooting All Night and Your Third or Fourth Night, Common Sense Doesn’t Always Want to Be Your Friend. You get through it though, and like i said, they’re so good a pototo Could Probably have Directed Them and it would still have been magic, so just enjoy.
One Last Thing on Production. Sex Scenes. I KNOW The TUOUGHT OF DIRECTING THEM MAKES YOU VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. And you’re right to think that. It is. Very. You have now Seen Brett Naked. A Lot. You have said to him to his face that you thinks he short grunt louder. Sorry. There’s no way around this. I your Own Fault for Writing so Many sex scenes into your script. You Thought it was so grown up don’t you, and yes, they’re important scenes so you can ‘ You fool. Butnk God for Intimacy Coordintors, The Best Thing to Happen to A Movie Production Since Rolling Lunch Breaks. It’s Still Awkward Talking About Howch Bum You Think You Need To See, But At Least You’re Saying It To -To The Owner of Said Bum, and they’re Doing the other. Very Helpful. Use them. You’ll Feel Very Grown Up Afterwards.
And Guess What, Despite The Days You Drive Home Thinking You’ve Messed Everything Up and The Who’s Thing Is Crumbling AROUND YOU, AND IT’s All Your Fault, You DO MAKE ITHHHHh, You Make with the actors are up there on screen. You find the Movie, the Real Movie, in the Edit with Your – I’ll only Ever Work With Her on Everything I DO – Editor, Vic. And you get that movie into tiff and lff and apple wants to buy it and put it in an actual movie theaters all over the place. IT’s on in your hometown of whore you grew up, and is on in your hometown where you live now, and there’s posters advertiseing it on actual Streets.
So Stay Strong Will, That Promise You Made to Yourself WHEN YOU WERE A TEENGER About Following Your Dream and Sticking with No Matter What, You Do It. Now Get To Work. You’ve Got A Fucking Movie to Make.
Will Bridges is A Writer and Director Who Won An Emmy for Co-Writing The BELOVED Black Mirror Episode “USS Callister.”