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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

136 | Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) On Satire In Our Writing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When Charlie got to post-production of his feature writer/director debut, he was crushed to discover that the film simply didn't work. At that point, he was faced with two choices: ditch the movie and move on, or dig in, dive into his lava, and head back to set for reshoots. He chose the latter, and his new film FOOL'S PARADISE, drops in theaters next week! On today's show we also talk about the genesis of Always Sunny, Charlie's comic voice, "pushing" your tone on the page, and how to write "unlikeable" characters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life I'm Maglafove and I'm

0:03.9

Lorian McKenna and today we are thrilled to be joined by writer director and

0:07.6

now feature director Charlie Day. Well thanks for having me.

0:11.6

Oh yeah I'm happy to be here.

0:14.0

Charlie is one of the most recognizable comic voices in our business starring on the hit FX show,

0:18.0

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which he also executive produces and writes for.

0:23.0

Charlie's new film and feature directorial debut,

0:26.0

Fool's Paradise drops on May 11th,

0:29.0

and we'll be discussing that film today.

0:31.0

But before we do, we just want to welcome Charlie and talk about our weeks. So welcome to the show.

0:37.4

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited to chat with you guys. It's always, and I find writing interesting to talk about because

0:46.0

it's so hard to understand and figure out and do so maybe we'll open open some

0:52.1

inspire each other in some ways and

0:54.4

Absolutely it's some new tools absolutely and you've you've your game to talk about your week so we'll let Lorian go first.

1:02.8

Lorian how was your week?

1:04.6

My week has been good.

1:06.0

I've been doing a lot of not writing and doing other things.

1:08.9

So today my manager called me and said,

1:10.9

hey, where's your script?

1:12.8

And I said, oh, well, I'm doing this and this and this.

1:16.4

And I had all these other things to talk about.

1:17.8

And he's like, uh huh, uh huh.

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