“When in Rome” (with Rachna Fruchbom)

And Just Like That...The Writers Room

HBO Max Podcasts

After Shows, Tv & Film

4.1 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Writer and director Michael Patrick King and executive producers, Elisa Zuritsky and Julie Rottenberg are joined by new writer, Rachna Fruchbom. Together, they reflect on reactions and press over the series premiere and share behind-the-scenes details on how episode three came to be. They reveal the initial scrapped concept for the episode, along with some on-set stories, like shooting the scene when Carries spots you-know-who. The group also reflects on the choices the writer’s room was confronted with when expanding the show’s view of sexuality and gender expression through one its newest characters, Che Diaz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. This is And Just Like That, the Writers Room, the official companion podcast from HBO Max and Pineapple Street Studios.
0:18.8	I'm Michael Patrick King, executive producer, writer, and director of it just like that.
0:25.4	And here with me, as always, we have executive producer and writer Julie Rottenberg.
0:30.4	Hello.
0:31.8	And executive producer and writer, Elisa Zeritsky.
0:34.9	Hello, everyone.
0:36.7	And joining this week's
0:38.1	Riders Room discussion, as she has always been joining our writer's room discussion
0:42.7	from Sunny California, and I might add from a closet in Sunny, California, where I first
0:47.6	met her. We have one of our new writers, Retchna Frukbaum. She's written for shows like
0:52.9	Parks and Rec, fresh off the boat, and many, many others, and we're happy to have her here today, but deliriously happy that we had her in the writing room all those months before today.
1:05.3	Hi.
1:06.8	Way to live up to an intro.
1:09.8	Am I everything you wanted?
1:12.2	In life, yes, on the podcast? Not yet.
1:17.0	Okay, so, Rachna, yes or no, original fan of the series?
1:21.3	Yes, original fan.
1:22.9	Of sex in the city, I should mean.
1:24.3	Of sex in the city.
1:25.2	I'm a huge fan of, yeah, it's always sunny in Philadelphia. Is that what we're talking about?
1:34.2	Such a big fan. And this is like a weird tidbit, but I feel like I shared it in my interview,
1:40.3	like a normal person where I said, as a small lady with kind of big boobs also a low-key
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