Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. My guest today is one of the most accomplished screen and television writers working in the world. He's an Academy Award winner, a multiple Emmy Award winner. You know

films like Gosford Park, you know downtown Abbey, the Titanic series. He has a new movie that

will be in theaters this Friday called The Chaperone that is a wonderful film with great performances and

Julian fellows thank you for being here.

Oh, thank you for asking me.

No, what a delight.

So there's this quote early on, certainly within the first three quarters of the chaperone,

where the young girl who's being squired to New York says historical fiction boars me

all these rules and manners seems so fake. And, yeah, so, you know, it reminded me of, I don't watch Woody Allen's movies

and it reminded me of Star Dust's Memories when they all keep coming up to him and talking

about how much they liked

is younger, funnier pictures.

And what I'm curious about is, if it's not typical of you to put something that meta in your

work.

So were you consciously sort of raising an eyebrow to the audience, to the...

Was that in the book? I think it's in the book, but it made me laugh.

And I, you know, I think all of our lives are a series of different

chapters and there are times in your life when you're interested in this and

you're interested in that Louise in the movie is young.

She's just becoming a woman.

She's beginning to find her power.

She's beginning to find her ability.

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