Jamie Babbit on Directing But I'm A Cheerleader, Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, The L Word

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by prolific film & TV director JAMIE BABBIT! Jamie is best known for writing/directing the cult classic BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER w/ Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall. Over the past two decades she has directed HBO's GIRLS, THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, GILMORE GIRLS, THE L WORD, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and more. We discuss all of those experiences, plus! shooting around different actors' nudity clauses, how to fix bad acting & bad dialogue in post-production and a lot more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives, and my next guest is a prolific director of
0:18.6	nearly every genre of television, including Gilmore Girls, the L-word, the Marvelous Mrs.
0:24.6	Maisel, Lena Dunham's Girls, Russian Doll, and most recently, only murders in the building
0:30.4	and my favorite show of the year, a League of Their Own.
0:33.7	But let's face it, we all knew her when, with the queer indie breakout, but a mature
0:38.3	leader starring Natasha Leone and Clea DeVal.
0:41.6	Hi, Jamie Bavett.
0:42.6	Hello.
0:43.6	Thanks for having me.
0:44.6	How are you?
0:45.6	I'm so happy to meet you.
0:47.3	I've been a fan since I was a teenager.
0:50.4	How are you today?
0:51.4	I'm good.
0:52.4	I'm currently working on my next project, which I'm in London doing kind of a princess feminist
0:59.8	alt history show for Amazon, so yeah, I'm just on my thing.
1:05.1	Oh, my God.
1:06.1	Yeah, you've been in London for a while.
1:07.5	How is it just like living in London?
1:10.0	It's awesome.
1:11.0	There are big tax credit here right now, so directors tend to follow tax credits, so whenever
1:16.7	guns are giving out free money for content, Amazon Netflix, whoever is chasing them.
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