“Some of My Best Friends” (with Keli Goff)

And Just Like That...The Writers Room

HBO Max Podcasts

After Shows, Tv & Film

4.1 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Writer, director, and executive producer Michael Patrick King and executive producers, Elisa Zuritsky and Julie Rottenberg welcome Keli Goff to the writers room. Keli shares how her encyclopedic knowledge of Sex and the City informed ideas for the episode, including Charlotte’s obsessive plan to impress at LTW’s dinner party. Then, the group discusses how varied choices around motherhood in the writers room informed the vulnerable conversation between Miranda and Nya. Also, Michael Patrick King shares the touching scene they wanted to film, between Carrie and Stanford, before Willie Garson’s passing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. This is End Just Like That, the writer's room, the official companion podcast from HBO Max and Pineapple Street Studios.
0:18.1	I'm Michael Patrick King, executive producer, writer, and director of Anne Just Like That.
0:22.9	And here with me as always, we have executive producer and writer Julie Rottenberg.
0:27.3	Hi, happy to be back here with you guys.
0:29.9	And executive producer and writer Elisa Zoritsky.
0:33.0	Hey, hey, hey, hey.
0:34.3	And joining us today for the very first time in the podcast writing room, but for the millionth time in the actual writing room.
0:41.5	Kelly Goff.
0:42.5	Hi.
0:43.5	So I called my friend Susan Fails Hill, who is a brilliant television writer, and she said, you've got to get Kelly.
0:51.6	Kelly is bright.
0:52.7	She's stunningly smart and has a million ideas. So of course,
0:57.7	I got Kelly's stuff. She's a playwright, and she writes television. And I read her plays,
1:02.5	and they had such an amazing ability to contain tension that then goes into comedy that I was
1:09.4	instantly hooked. So I called Kelly up and asked her to do the show.
1:12.9	Now, Kelly didn't let us know that she was a super fan of sex in the city.
1:18.6	Really?
1:19.2	She didn't let you know.
1:20.0	No, no.
1:20.4	She played it very stealth, very cool, very Kelly.
1:23.9	I don't know if it was an intentionally covert operation.
1:30.2	I will say, will anyone believe me that it didn't come up in the first interview?
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