‘Love & Death’ Director Lesli Linka Glatter on Capturing Texas and Travels in Tokyo

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Everyday we travel to far-flung places through our television screens, all thanks to the directors, location scouts, camera crews, and more who skillfully capture—or create—entire worlds for us to get lost in. One of those people is Lesli Linka Glatter, the award-winning director behind shows like Twin Peaks, Homeland, and Mad Men. Lale sits down with her to find out about how she bought to life 1970s Texas in the new HBO Max show Love and Death, what it's like to travel the world with a film crew, and the time she took a life-changing trip to Tokyo.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and this is Women Who Travel.
0:05.0	Do you turn to movies and television to transport you to new places when you aren't travelling?
0:11.0	Well, then today we have a treat.
0:14.0	Film and TV director Leslie Linka Glatter has spent the past three decades,
0:19.0	not just bringing some of the most successful TV series to our screens, but creating the iconic worlds they are known for.
0:26.6	Shows like Twin Peaks, Homeland, Mad Men and many, many more.
0:31.6	And later this month, her newest project comes out on HBO Max.
0:36.6	Love and Death, a drama set in Texas, Leslie's
0:40.5	home state. It's the true story of housewife and accused axe murderer, Candy Montgomery. Leslie
0:47.3	worked on the show with love and death about to hit our screens in a few weeks. So congratulations on that.
1:15.1	Thank you. I'm so excited that it's about to go into the world and nervous and anxious and all of
1:20.5	those good things that go with having something, you know, actually out there.
1:26.8	You've worked on a ream of successful shows, I think,
1:31.3	both for HBO and other networks over the last few decades. How do you know a good show to pick?
1:39.5	How do you know a compelling story? For me, I read something and if I connect to it, I start to see it,
1:48.0	I can start to imagine it visually. It's all about story. Story is everything. And deep, complicated,
1:57.4	layered characters, there are certain themes that I'm always pulled to. I love stories
2:03.3	that things are not what they appear to be, and you have to look deeper and dig deeper to see
2:08.8	what's really going on. Love and Death have that in spades. On the surface, it's a very beautiful
2:16.2	and bucolic world, and underneath, it's much darker.
2:21.0	And that juxtaposition always interests me as well as the idea of people being put in
2:28.3	extraordinary circumstances where they're forced to deal with who they really are.
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