Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafove and today I am

thrilled to be chatting with Todd A Kessler who recently created and show ran the Apple TV Plus series The New Look,

which I am an avid, rabid fan of. I'm just so excited that he's here. It's a historical drama

exploring the rivalry between iconic fashion designers Christian Dior and Coco Chanel.

Todd has an impressive resume in TV writing and producing on shows like The Sopranos and eventually co-creating in show running two hit

crime dramas FX's damages starring Glenn Close and Netflix Bloodline starring Kyle

Chandler. Hi Todd. Hello. Thank you so much for being here. It is a pleasure to be here.

Although you know I'm in Brooklyn and you're in Los Angeles so the the podcast has brought us together. That's right, the why I've done it, just so you know we can bring us all together.

We're going to talk to Todd here in just a second, but first he has agreed to talk about his week or what we like to call

Adventures in screenwriting. I'll start kind of a big week for me because we had the premiere of Inside Out,

out for me, because we had the premiere of Inside Out too,

and it was super fun.

The audience seemed to like it, thank God.

And the trick is, though, here's what's weird for me.

Like you would think you have your premiere of a movie

you've worked on for like four or five years.

People seem to like it.

People are smiling. They're not trying to avoid you after the movie which is always a good sign

at we have a after party in which Amy Polar actually remembers me,

even though I'm just the writer.

Like, all of it, you could have checked the list.

It was all great.

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