227 | Oscar-Nominated Writer Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich, Unbelievable): "Know The Difference Between Truth and Facts"

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Many of Susannah Grant's movies are based on true stories, which, for a writer, often invites thorny questions about adaptation — What should I include? Is it essential that every detail I include happened verbatim? In answering these questions during today’s fascinating conversation, Susannah sheds light on an important reality: sometimes in fiction writing, there’s profound difference between truth and facts.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.
0:06.8	I'm Meg LaFoebe.
0:08.3	And I'm Lorian McKenna.
0:09.4	And today we're chatting with Oscar and Emmy-nominated writer Susanna Grant.
0:14.3	Susanna is an Academy Award nominated writer, producer, and director.
0:18.0	Her film credits include the screenplay for Aaron Brockovich in her shoes,
0:21.4	28 days, ever after Pocahontas and Charlotte's Web. Can I just say swoon? She also wrote and directed
0:28.2	catch and release and most recently Netflix's Lonely Planet starring Laura Dern. In the TV world,
0:34.1	Susanna has written and produced Netflix is unbelievable, HBO's confirmation,
0:38.9	the CBS series, A Gifted Man, and Party of Five on Fox. She's also the executive producer of two
0:44.4	of my personal favorites, Fleischman is in trouble in Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV Plus.
0:49.6	So, first of all, those credits, can we just talk? I agree, Lori and Swoon. So welcome to the show, Susanna.
0:58.0	Oh, it's awful nice to be here. Thank you. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to cry during this interview
1:02.2	because every single one of your projects makes me cry in some way, like all in different kinds of
1:08.0	ways. So the best way. Yeah, the best way, but also like cars and yeah.
1:15.0	So anyway, very emotional.
1:16.7	Well, good.
1:17.6	I try to make myself cry when I write, to be honest.
1:21.0	So perfect.
1:21.9	Your perfect guess for the show then.
1:24.5	It doesn't work for me.
1:25.5	I figure it won't work for the audience.
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