Hey everyone welcome back to the screen running life. I'm Meg Lefove and I'm

L'Orian McKenna. Today we are thrilled to be chatting with Jody Foster.

Jody is an award-winning actor and filmmaker who has worked on all sides of our business

in front of and behind the camera as a producer, an executive, and director in both features

and TV for nearly five decades. Jody and I worked and everything I know about storytelling I learned from Jody so for me it's particularly

exciting to have her on the show today and for you all to get direct lying to her

wisdom so Jody thanks so much for coming on the show today.

Wow, my pleasure.

Yeah, this is a perfect way to spend a Tuesday.

I love it.

Awesome.

Yes, welcome, but before we get started,

we're going to be diving into our weeks on what we like to call

adventures and screenwriting. So Meg, how is your week?

I'm going first this week. Okay, well, my week, and I know that both of you have had this experience.

I'm at the end of a project and it's that period of,

I'm not going to say morning because it's alive and going, like it's not like it died, but I'm no longer going with it as

writers often are, you step off and into production it goes and but it is a process it's still an emotional process of trying to

get back to your regular life and yet I still have to get a next project and I have a next project because I need help insurance

But I don't I'm tired and I need to process this baby being grown before I start going up the next mountain, which

just looks really steep, I think because I'm tired.

And then all that family stuff that during this intense work you just kind of put over there and all those doctors appointments and all that stuff that you promised your kids that you're like yes as soon as this job's over we are doing that well here it is it's all here

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