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Why I'm Going to Make a Movie With These certain Actors š¬āØ
If I could be in a movie with just other mixed actors, that'd be amazing.
So it doesn't even matter. I think, what if we all got together?
That's still my big question.
Like, would a rift form in the vortex or would something crazy happen?
That's almost the way it feels to me, at the idea of getting together with a whole bunch of mixed people.
So, gosh, I mean, if I was going to say somebody in particular, why don't we go back to Keanu?
I don't know. There's just so many people I admire. As a writer, there are two people who come to mind.
One is Deb Kahn. We graduated from the ART together, the American Repertory Theatre for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University slash Moscow Art Theatre School. And she went on to write for the West Wing, Grey's Anatomy, I think it's called The Diplomat, all these things.
And it's funny, when things started to take off for her, I didn't know what to do. My sense of self wasn't nearly what it is now. And I just got sort of too nervous to hang out with her, even though she was my friend.
It was very silly.
Funny side story, at the showcase for the ART, we did our little scenes and everything. And there were people talking to the actors and somebody talked to somebody else.
And that person wanted to speak to the mixed person. And then that person was brought over to me. And the person was just befuddled, because they actually wanted to speak to Deb, who's Sephardic Jewish.
And they thought that she was mixed. So it was just kind of a funny mix up happening there.
Also, there's this Harvard Writers Group.
I was taking some classes because you never stop taking classes. And there's a young Harvard writer named Monique Hall. And what she wrote captured me.
So funny, so heartfelt, all of those things. And I'm already a fan. I know that she is going to go places.
So I would want to write with this absolute hardcore veteran, and this shining newbie and just see what we could come up with.
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