Design on market would close. There was a real friendship and a work friendship. They talked four or five times a week, every week, for the last 18 years.

We would start talking about some work piece of business and then we would digress into a

combination of motherly advice from her and gossiping which would last for 30 to

45 more minutes. She had a lot of advice and she didn't miss her words about what I was doing wrong. She also was very loving and there for me.

Margaret Riley's her name.

She was somebody who managed screenwriters and directors and actors too.

She was 58.

Susanna is Susanna Focal, one of her clients.

And she says the remarkable thing about Margaret is how, up until the end,

she kept hidden how sick she was.

And that cancer had returned.

It was a secret from nearly everybody.

Even if you pushed and asked, she would not divulge that piece of it.

Like, I had texted her and said, hey, I feel like we just talk about trivial stuff and can we talk about your health and she

said I actually love to be distracted from talking about my health let's talk about

you and she would do that a lot. Margaret didn't want to get into it. She wanted to engage with people the way she always had.

She liked working. She wanted to keep at it the way she was used to.

And that continued literally until the day she died, Tuesday this week. Doctors had already told

her that she didn't have much time. She was getting hospice care at home. And so on

Monday and Tuesday she had a series of Zoom meetings, notes calls, calls with writers, calls with executives, and she refused to let

anybody cancel them and she refused to let people come and see her when she was booked into these professional meetings which she attended.

In fact, the day Margaret died, her mother was flying to LA to see her.

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