![]() Working Title, who I’ve made several films with, was also producing it. ( Laughs.) So we are great friends, and it was just a gift to be able to dream about going to work again, let alone alongside one of my best friends. I’ve known him for the last ten or twelve years I used to sleep at the end of his bed on a mattress in his flat in Tufnell Park. And then this script came along with an email that contained this magical information that my great friend Shazad Latif was attached. I was locked in my house and unsure whether I’d get out again. So this came at an interesting moment in life where we were mid-lockdown. So where did What’s Love Got to Do with It? fall on your timeline? We should do a scene where you are playing table tennis.’ So it made the scene way better than it would’ve been.”īelow, during a recent interview with THR, James also discusses how she passed the time during Pam & Tommy’s four-hour hair and makeup sessions. So Shaz and I were playing, and Shekhar walked in and was like, ‘Huh. During rehearsals, there was actually a ping-pong table at Working Title. “I am a deeply competitive human being when it comes to table tennis. “I couldn’t wait for my two brothers to watch it because I knew this would be my reigning moment in their eyes. She became fiercely competitive at table tennis thanks to playing against her brothers for years and years, and she eventually traded forehands and backhands with Latif during pub games in the early days of their decade-plus-long friendship. The film also gave James the chance to make her brothers proud, as she has a dialogue scene while playing table tennis. But I thought it was fun to turn those fairy tales on their head … I was laughing at it inside. “But it was in the script, and I couldn’t decide if it was the corniest, worst thing in the world or actually quite hilarious. I guess I’m a real has-been when it comes to Disney Princesses,” James tells The Hollywood Reporter. “You’re pretty much the first person that’s brought that up, which is really surreal. Naturally, James was apprehensive about the meta moment at first. And one of the retellings involves Cinderella, who James famously brought to life in Kenneth Branagh’s well-received live-action reimagining, Cinderella (2015). The film also includes a modern fairy tale device where Zoe tells her nieces (Grace and Lolly Askew) classic bedtime stories that parallel her own dating life (until they don’t) through the use of montage. TV Writer David Simon Says Industry Is Going to "Infantilize Itself" if AI Is the Future for Scripts ![]()
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