Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

I'm Meg LaFove.

And today I am thrilled to be joined by Ava Victor, a writer, director, and actor.

Ava's feature debut, Sorry Baby, premiered at Sundance this year to much acclaim,

winning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award before being acquired by A24 for a 2025 release.

It's produced by Barry Jenkins Company, Pastel, and the film stars Ava alongside Naomi Acky and Lucas Hedges, and has been praised for its stunning honesty and moving scenes of humor.

I love this movie. It is my favorite movie so far this year. So I'm just kind of

bold over to have Ava here. Also the actress, so it's just my head is just like a little bit

starstruck. Before, Sorry Baby, Ava built our reputation as a sharp comedic voice, writing for the

New Yorker and Reductress, making videos for Comedy Central and appearing as an actor in

billions. So welcome

Ava. I am thrilled to be here. I seriously have listened to this on my lowest days and it's very

surreal for me too to see your face. So thank you for having me. We're both kind of a little bit.

We're freaked out. We're freaked out of a little bit. We're freaked out.

We're freaked out a little.

Okay.

All right.

So Ava has agreed to participate in Adventures in Screenwriting.

So I will start super simple my week because it's the same as it was last week, which

is I keep, I'm a writing partner and we keep getting ready to turn the script in.

And then we give it to our manager and he comes back with more notes. And I'm a little burnt on it, to be honest with you. I feel like the stress of, okay, we are past our due date. He keeps saying it doesn't matter if it has to work. That's what they care about. Don't worry about that, but I can't help it because I'm a type A good girl and now I'm late.

And I just, you know, part of me, I don't know, Ava, if you've ever had this where you're like, couldn't you give me that note before? Like, this is a very big note. Why are you giving me? But sometimes people can't see it until other things are fixed and then the other note arrives because you fix this other thing. It's a total issue of,'s like the mountain, the Sissivis thing of like it's just the more you open up, the more you see and then it's so painful. And I also have the thing of missing the deadline. Like I can't miss a deadline. And if I do, I'll freak out. But it's like to the detriment of whatever I'm doing.

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