Thompson's approach couldn't have been more opposite to James Schamus' opening lecture -- a drier, university-style sermon -- two days prior. The actress-screenwriter showed clips and performed a sketch-comedy monologue to supplement her inspired preamble, during which she sat writing at a desk, barefoot and in overalls, before getting up to wander the stage, stretch on a yoga mat, pull a face of tearful frustration and – to great amusement – whip out a vacuum cleaner and start suctioning the carpet. "I think it's good to know what the writing process is like," Thompson noted drily upon returning to engage in a boisterous conversation with screenwriter Jeremy Brock ("The Last King Of Scotland"), architect of this series. "There is lots of crying, in fetal positions." From there, the conversation devolved broadly into three chapters: Thompson's introduction to writing and early sketch-comedy efforts; her adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense And...
- 9/21/2014
- by Matt Mueller
- Thompson on Hollywood
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