M3gan Q&A - Akela Cooper

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4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews screenwriter Akela Cooper about M3gan.

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0:00.0	She could dance.
0:01.0	She could sing.
0:02.0	She could maim and kill.
0:03.0	She could help your kids with their homework.
0:05.0	Folks, Megan is here to stay.
0:08.0	Howdy.
0:09.0	I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.
0:11.0	My agenda is simple.
0:12.0	Each week I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.
0:17.0	And folks, this was a really fun episode.
0:20.0	Megan was just a blast to see in theaters. I masked up. I saw it with the crowd. There's a lot of great laughs, a lot of crazy kills, a lot of crazy in general because that is what we have come to expect from today's guest, A Kayla Cooper, the screenwriter of Megan. You might know her from her previous film, Malignant, which is also a whole bunch of crazy.
0:42.8	Akela's got a good crazy street going, and I'm just glad we're able to capitalize on it right now.
0:47.7	And I got to say this was a good chat.
0:49.7	We got some really interesting details about pre-production and kind of the different stages the script
0:56.5	needed to go through to become the film that everybody loves. And I always loved doing that.
1:02.5	And Akela was very forthcoming about her creative process and what it took to get Megan in
1:08.1	the can so I know you'll dig this episode. And speaking of things to dig,
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1:22.4	published our Wakanda Forever issue, which has a lot of award season coverage in it. So it is a
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1:29.2	If you want to see what's in the issue, you can see our table of contents over at backstory.net and
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