Leslye Headland (Russian Doll; The Acolyte)
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Writer/director Leslye Headland (creator, The Acolyte; co-creator, Russian Doll; Dying for Sex) returns to discuss individuality and authenticity, loving Star Wars, creding her team, how Russian Doll began, auteurism, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | They write, they talk, and talk about what they write. |
| 0:03.1 | Tune in, tonight, or whatever the time is right, it's the writer's panel with mad blacker. |
| 0:08.6 | And it's starting now. |
| 0:10.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:13.7 | Leslie Headland's back. |
| 0:15.3 | It's been a minute. |
| 0:17.0 | I think it's been almost 10 years. |
| 0:19.6 | Am I that old? |
| 0:20.9 | No. |
| 0:21.6 | So let's catch up. |
| 0:24.8 | But let's hear about your life. |
| 0:26.7 | I think like you were coming off of Bachelorette maybe. |
| 0:29.6 | That's why we were talking. |
| 0:30.6 | I honestly can't remember, |
| 0:31.6 | but it was one of my all-time favorite episodes of this podcast |
| 0:35.0 | and folks should go listen to it. |
| 0:38.7 | It was such a pleasure. |
| 0:45.1 | So like seeing your career skyrocket, you've done all kinds of interesting and wild and cool things. First of all, tell the folks where they have seen your name on their television |
| 0:50.5 | and movie screens in the past like decade or so. and then we can sort of take it from there. |
| 0:55.7 | Absolutely. Like you said, my first film was Bachelorette. It premiered at Sundance in 2012. |
| 1:04.8 | I did a second feature, a romantic comedy called Sleeping with Other People, and that premiered in |
| 1:09.7 | 2015, also at Sundance. |
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