King Richard Q&A - Zach Baylin

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4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews screenwriter Zach Baylin about his debut feature King Richard!.

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0:00.0	Look, I remember reading about Richard Williams idea back in the day.
0:03.2	I thought it was genius that he decided he wanted to have two daughters who he could train to play tennis and become tennis stars.
0:09.1	I wanted to do the same thing with my children and train them to be screenwriters and directors.
0:14.0	Not going good so far.
0:15.5	Need to reach out to King Richard himself for some advice because so far, about 60% of the time, they will not
0:24.0	watch any movies I suggest. And I just don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
0:28.9	That, of course, has nothing to do with this movie, but I just don't know what to do.
0:32.6	Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each week I plan to bring you in-depth
0:37.8	insights into the creative process of storytelling. And folks, you know what? I will say about my kids,
0:42.6	they actually want to watch King Richards. So that's a good thing. So, you know, they do have some taste,
0:47.1	but I think it's just because I'm a parent. They want to discover stuff one thing. I say, wait, what's this podcast about again? Oh, yeah, right, King Richard.
0:55.0	You know what?
0:55.5	It's good that it's about King Richard because I was really happy to have screenwriter
0:58.8	Zach Baylon with us today.
1:01.2	And he gave a great chat.
1:03.0	And it was really cool to finally catch up with him because I really enjoyed King Richard.
1:06.8	The main reason I enjoyed King Richard actually is because it was so good at taking known sports conventions and turning them on their head to tell a really character-driven, entertaining story.
1:18.2	And the good news is Zach was very forthcoming about his creative process and what it took to get this film made so I know you'll dig this episode.
1:25.5	And speaking of things to dig, I hope you check out
1:27.5	backstory magazine over at backstory.net. You could read us on a desktop or laptop or via our iPad
1:32.8	app, backstory. And you know, we recently published our winter issue, which has a doom cover.
1:37.9	It is filled to the brim with amazing articles. I really know that you'll enjoy it. You can read us on a
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