Writer Asha Michelle Wilson from FX's "American Horror Story" and "Archer" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Writer Asha Michelle Wilson from FX’s “American Horror Story” and “Archer” joins us on Story & Craft.
Asha is an actor, screenwriter and showrunner who has written for “Archer” and “American Horror Story.” She is developing a project for Paramount+ and a series based on the movie “Soapdish.” We talk about writing for TV versus movies and what it takes to develop, write and run a show.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Asha Michelle Wilson joins Story & Craft
Writing for TV vs. Movies
TV Production and Color Blindness
What Sparks the Creative Process
Defining the Role of a Showrunner
Exploring Writing and Screenwriting
Preferences in Writing and Genre Inspiration
Writing for Established Celebrities
Current Shows and Personal Favorites
Latchkey Kids and Creativity
Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Every time I finish a script and then have
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to start a new one the next week, I'm
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Asha Michelle Wilson: always like that last one I wrote is the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: last one I'll ever be able to write.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm never going to be able to write another
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Asha Michelle Wilson: one again.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That was it.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But every other time I write another one.
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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.
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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: All right, here we go.
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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: How are you doing?
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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston and I'm so glad to have
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Marc Preston: If this is your first episode, hey, thanks
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Marc Preston: for checking it out.
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Marc Preston: Going to have a great one today.
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Marc Preston: Asha Michelle Wilson that is our guest.
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Marc Preston: We're talking about what it's like to
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Marc Preston: develop, write and run a television show.
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Marc Preston: You know from somebody who does that for a
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Marc Preston: living.
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Marc Preston: She also acts a little bit here and there.
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Marc Preston: Now Asha has written for TV shows like FX's
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Marc Preston: Archer and American Horror Story.
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Marc Preston: She's writing on the new Netflix show
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Marc Preston: that's going to be coming out called Agent
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Marc Preston: She stays very busy.
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Marc Preston: It's a great conversation about what it's
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Marc Preston: Very interesting stuff.
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Marc Preston: Hey, don't forget Story and Craft Podcom.
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Marc Preston: Okay, so let's get right after it.
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Marc Preston: Today it's Asha Michelle Wilson Day, right
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Marc Preston: here on Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: So how you doing today.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm doing well, Marc.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: How are you?
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Marc Preston: Fantastic.
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Marc Preston: Where are you?
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Marc Preston: Where are you joining me from today?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I am in Encino, California, in my home.
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Marc Preston: You know it's so funny.
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Marc Preston: I think I just spoke with somebody the
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Marc Preston: other day who lives in Encino.
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Marc Preston: So it's kind of a way to kind of get out of
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Marc Preston: the hustle and bustle of Can I say the
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Marc Preston: hustle and bustle I just want to phrase
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Marc Preston: this a number you use the hustle and bustle
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Marc Preston: of Los Angelesness, which in my time out
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Marc Preston: there I can appreciate the desire for a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I understand it's.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Also.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: The parking is way better.
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Marc Preston: So are you originally from Encino or did
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Marc Preston: you kind of gravitate out there just to be
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Well, when I first moved out here, I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: started in North Hollywood and then Studio
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Asha Michelle Wilson: City and then bought a house in Encino.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm originally from Southern Florida, so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of a complete opposite side of the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I came specifically to Encino because I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: just found a house that I really liked.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That was really, and I needed to be as
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Asha Michelle Wilson: close as possible to any studio that I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: might have to work at.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So this felt equidistant enough, while
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Asha Michelle Wilson: still again having great parking.
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Marc Preston: Now did you head to Los Angeles for the
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Marc Preston: sake of acting, or was it writing?
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Marc Preston: Or was there a specific career goal when
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I came out here knowing for a fact that I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: wanted to write scripted television.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That was the number one thing that I knew I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: wanted to do.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I also wanted to act, but I felt like I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: felt more confident in my writing abilities
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Asha Michelle Wilson: than my acting abilities.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Coming out here and I felt like gun to my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: head.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: If I could choose one, writing would be it.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So that was really the impetus for coming
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Marc Preston: You've been writing, of course, for some
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Marc Preston: different shows.
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Marc Preston: Do you find that it's more fun to work on
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Marc Preston: projects that are yours, or is it kind of
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Marc Preston: the ultimate goal for you to create your
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Marc Preston: own project and you're the writer, and then
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Marc Preston: you kind of delegate some of those duties?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Show Running has really been my number one
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I like working with other people and it is
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Asha Michelle Wilson: always fun to help somebody else make their
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Asha Michelle Wilson: dream come true.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think right now, my focus is making my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: dreams come true, for lack of a better
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I really love all of the nitty-gritty stuff
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that goes into creating your own show even
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Asha Michelle Wilson: picking out the wigs that people have to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think that's where my focus is now,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: after learning a lot from working on other
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Asha Michelle Wilson: people's shows.
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Marc Preston: Now mostly and I've always wondered this as
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Marc Preston: an actor, how often as a writer do you need
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Marc Preston: to be on set or on location, Like, for
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Marc Preston: instance, you wrote on American Horror
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Marc Preston: Story and I see Scream Queens, but I know
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Marc Preston: those are shot in New Orleans, At least
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Marc Preston: some of the, I think at least one of the
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Marc Preston: As long as you've got your computer in a
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Marc Preston: Or do they like you to be there?
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Marc Preston: What's kind of the protocol for that?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It really depends on the show and the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: showrunner.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They kind of can decide how they want to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: handle things.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think specifically on, you know, american
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Horror Story.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Some seasons were shot in Orleans, many
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Asha Michelle Wilson: were shot in LA.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: We had kind of one liaison between the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: writer's room and the set.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That would go, and the writer for the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: episode would often be on set as well.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Nowadays I know there are some directors
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Asha Michelle Wilson: who stay home and or stay in their own
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I do think there is a certain energy to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I've spoken with and in my experience that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you just can't really beat being on set in
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And so you know I think people have
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Asha Michelle Wilson: different preferences.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: For sure I really miss being on set and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like being on set, so that's always
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Asha Michelle Wilson: something that I love, but it really
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Asha Michelle Wilson: depends on the show.
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Marc Preston: Well, one of the things I'm curious about.
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Marc Preston: I would never profess to be a professional
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Marc Preston: screenwriter, but I like to sometimes sit
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Marc Preston: down with final was it final draft?
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Marc Preston: Is that what it is?
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Announcer: I always forget the name of the software
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Marc Preston: But I always kind of like looking at it
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Marc Preston: from is a hobby right now and maybe one of
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Marc Preston: these days I'll sell one.
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Marc Preston: Do you prefer the TV realm?
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Marc Preston: Because I mean, really that's more of a
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Marc Preston: writer's medium, where movies are more of a
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Marc Preston: Do you prefer TV?
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Marc Preston: Do you prefer, you know, feature length
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Marc Preston: films, or do you even have a preference?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I used to have a strong preference to TV.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I was always a TV girl and I think
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Asha Michelle Wilson: there was maybe growing up a lot of people.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: If you said you wanted to work in Hollywood,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: they assumed you wanted to write movies,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: because no one really thought about writing
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Asha Michelle Wilson: TV as an option in those days.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think I really dug my heels in of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: knowing that no, I want to do TV, not
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that I had to write movies.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But now, having written both, I really
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Asha Michelle Wilson: enjoy both.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I I I slightly have more of a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: preference towards television because I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like the longer format of telling a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: character's story through multiple episodes,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: multiple seasons and getting to see the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: supporting character's story, which you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: don't get to see as much of in a feature
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Asha Michelle Wilson: length film.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But on the flip side of it, I do think that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that fully rounded story and you can kind
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Asha Michelle Wilson: of tell that beginning, middle end and take
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the audience on its own journey.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I would say 10% more.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I like TV storytelling more.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, there is.
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Marc Preston: I always thought it was interesting how the
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Marc Preston: two are different, you know, and how you
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Marc Preston: can cycle through different directors on a
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Marc Preston: show and it's, and after a while,
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Marc Preston: especially if the show has been on for a
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Marc Preston: while from the people I've spoken with the
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Marc Preston: actors, that is there is almost like an
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Marc Preston: ownership that they take for the character,
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Marc Preston: because it doesn't matter who's directing,
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Marc Preston: they kind of already know who they are, you
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Marc Preston: know.
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Marc Preston: So have you ever seen the Netflix show Love,
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Marc Preston: the Jet Apatow produced?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, there's kind of a whole storyline
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Marc Preston: that the lead is actually ends up being a.
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Marc Preston: I don't know if you ever really wrote.
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Marc Preston: I think you had a story treatment, I forgot,
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Marc Preston: but I kind of showed the writer's room and
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Marc Preston: Is that kind of the you know?
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Marc Preston: You know, you know, when you got a number
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Marc Preston: of writers together, is it sort of a battle
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Marc Preston: Or, you know, for like, who can kind of get
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Marc Preston: You know what's that like in a writing room?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think, again, it does depend on the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: showrunner.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It's funny the thing you said about
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Asha Michelle Wilson: directing.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I had a director friend of mine once say
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that coming on to direct an episode of a TV
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Asha Michelle Wilson: show is kind of like being a step parent.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Like you have some power, but not too much
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Asha Michelle Wilson: power and you kind of don't want to step on
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Asha Michelle Wilson: toes.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know you have to be there.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But on the writer's room side of things, I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: think you know there are some comedy rooms
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Asha Michelle Wilson: especially that can feel very much like a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: battle who can get the best joke in?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I've heard of some rooms that have a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: whiteboard where they Marc for every joke
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that every person has, so there's just a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: running tally of seeing who has the most
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Asha Michelle Wilson: jokes in an episode.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I've never been in a room like that,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: thankfully.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think it would stress me out.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I think most of the rooms I've been in
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Asha Michelle Wilson: luckily have, you know, felt more like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: friends hanging out, felt more like, you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: know, we tell stories about our lives and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: see if they make sense within the context
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Asha Michelle Wilson: of the show and you know everyone has the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: characters that they gravitate towards more
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and you sort of pitch to that.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm definitely the first to do something
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Asha Michelle Wilson: My mom really loves writing novels.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I did grow up in a very entertainment
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Marc Preston: Well, that's cool.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, I also just realized I misused the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think growing up there was definitely
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think Mel Brooks was really a big one for
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Asha Michelle Wilson: me, blazing Saddles and History of the
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Marc Preston: You think Blazing Saddles could come back
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Marc Preston: Satire is, I mean, well executed is so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm not sure I think they did it in the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: right way.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think satires changed in so many ways
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't know if it could come out right now.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think if someone was making it and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the right way, but you know, I think Mel
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Marc Preston: I remember in elementary school watching
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Marc Preston: I don't think the teacher's quite got what
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Marc Preston: Now, what made you kind of lean towards
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think that writing just came easier.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Maybe it was just because you can write on
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I would write stories in journals that I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I would borrow my mom's laptop in the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But at the same time I went to theater camp
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and I did high school theater and I would
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Asha Michelle Wilson: with my friends and sometimes I was in it,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: sometimes I wasn't, but I think I kind of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't think anyone ever told me that.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It just felt like that was what I was going
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So it felt like if I wanted to be on camera
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Marc Preston: I wonder, when you are writing, when you
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Marc Preston: For you writing a TV show, is it a
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Marc Preston: Is it an idea about a story that kind of
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Marc Preston: What's kind of what comes first to get the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It's usually dialogue.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It's usually I have a big note-tap on my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That's just funny lines that I'll come up
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the only one who did that.
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Marc Preston: Thank you that you kind of validated my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh good, I Mean it might just be the two of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: us, might just be the two of us.
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Marc Preston: We can form a club.
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Marc Preston: You know the do's, because I mean, isn't
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Marc Preston: But of course you got to fill in everything
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Marc Preston: it mostly when you, when you are making
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Marc Preston: is it then kind of evolving into what the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, for sure.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think you know there are some projects
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know I'm brought on to them, so the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But if I'm really starting something from
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Usually within that back-and-forth there's
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I can kind of flesh out the characters
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Marc Preston: Yeah, sometimes when I'm writing I they say
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Every so often it depends on the project.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: There there was a project that I wrote very
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Asha Michelle Wilson: London last year I met with him and now
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So sometimes it does work out, yes.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Um other times, you know, I think there are
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Asha Michelle Wilson: certain kind of comedy, like I think, you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: know, the style of comedy that Tiffany
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know they have different styles and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: someone make, really making it feel like,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: oh, this is a character who I can
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Asha Michelle Wilson: understand, the way they speak and the way
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Asha Michelle Wilson: their comedy is coming through, because you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: had someone in mind.
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Marc Preston: Now I got a question is an actor and I
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Marc Preston: think I want to ask this question on behalf
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Marc Preston: of many other actors why are there so many
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Marc Preston: rewrites?
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Announcer: You know what?
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Marc Preston: exactly is the impetus for the rewrite good?
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Marc Preston: Because if you're kind of day of, you know
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Marc Preston: you're shooting a scene, is it you know?
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Marc Preston: Is it just you have a lot of chefs in the
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Marc Preston: kitchen sometimes, or is it that it's a
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Marc Preston: constant creative process?
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Marc Preston: Something maybe sparks like, oh gosh,
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Marc Preston: before they did, let me, let me, let me
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Marc Preston: throw this idea out there.
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Marc Preston: Or is it just driven that somebody in the
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Marc Preston: production chain says, hey, let's, let's
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Marc Preston: change this up a little bit?
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Marc Preston: When you see rewrites or request for
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Marc Preston: rewrites, or when they come in, what's what
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Marc Preston: really is the impetus for it typically?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, I think.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think, when it comes to rewrites, the two
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Asha Michelle Wilson: most important things are you need them to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like it enough to spend money to make it
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and you need to like it to care enough to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: make it.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And some, you know you have to keep those
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Asha Michelle Wilson: things in balance and I think there are
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Asha Michelle Wilson: often a lot of voices between actors,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: producers, directors, even sometimes, you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: know, the Production manager could be like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: can we make this?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know a less expensive location?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, can we use one of our standing
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Asha Michelle Wilson: sets, can we?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know a second AD is gonna be calling
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you asking questions about that.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And so I think there are a lot of reasons
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Asha Michelle Wilson: why things get rewritten.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think in the earlier steps of the process
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and the sort of development stages, things
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Asha Michelle Wilson: get rewritten because you want the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: executives to like it enough to push it
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Asha Michelle Wilson: forward, and you know.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And then once you get more people on board,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you know, sometimes a director will come on
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Asha Michelle Wilson: board and have a great idea for a character
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Asha Michelle Wilson: moment.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That happened to me recently, um, and so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that caused a rewrite.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And then an actor has come on board for a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: project and that happened on a different
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Asha Michelle Wilson: project once where they were like oh, this
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Asha Michelle Wilson: situation that you wrote for my character
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Asha Michelle Wilson: actually happened to me in real life.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Do you mind adding a few lines or pieces of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: dialogue based on the real situation?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was like, oh yeah, because that's very
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Asha Michelle Wilson: funny and it's gonna be more true to you.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But then, once you actually get into
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Asha Michelle Wilson: production, a lot of those changes tend to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: be ways to make it less expensive, whether
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Asha Michelle Wilson: it's, like I said, moving something onto a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: set, or you know, we can't get that indoor
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Asha Michelle Wilson: location.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Can it be an exterior?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Or you know, you wrote this as day, can it
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Asha Michelle Wilson: be night or vice versa, and that usually
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Asha Michelle Wilson: tends to be the bigger changes.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's got to be rough sometimes,
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Marc Preston: because you know when you change one piece
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Marc Preston: it affects everything down the line
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Marc Preston: sometimes.
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Marc Preston: So you got to think, okay, where did this
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Marc Preston: go?
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Marc Preston: And you know that's, maybe that's when
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Marc Preston: you're working in a team.
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Marc Preston: That makes it a little bit easier because
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Marc Preston: somebody may catch it and go hey, by the
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Marc Preston: way, if we, if we change it tonight, then
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Marc Preston: the very next couple few scenes or it may
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Marc Preston: do something.
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Defining the Role of a Showrunner
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Marc Preston: But for somebody who's not really
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Marc Preston: acquainted, what or even how do you define
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Marc Preston: showrunner?
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Marc Preston: What is a showrunner in your mind?
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Marc Preston: They're, they're Creative and business and
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Marc Preston: whatever responsibility in the process of
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Marc Preston: getting a show, getting a show made.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: In the simplest terms, a showrunner is an
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Asha Michelle Wilson: executive producer and the head writer of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the writers room of the show.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They're often not always the person who
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Asha Michelle Wilson: created the show, who initially came up
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Asha Michelle Wilson: with the concept or was brought onto the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: project.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Sometimes they can be someone else that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: came in to help shepherd the project along,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: but I think you know in More of like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: metaphorical terms, they are kind of the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: captain of the ship.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think the tone of a set and of a writer's
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Asha Michelle Wilson: room is brought on by the showrunner.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: The people who are hired are often friends
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Asha Michelle Wilson: or past co-workers of the showrunner, and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: so they really do set the bar for how
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Asha Michelle Wilson: things are going to be run.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They're running the show, and so a lot of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the decisions that are made On a show when
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you watch it and you're like you know when
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Asha Michelle Wilson: it comes to the costumes or who was cast or
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Asha Michelle Wilson: what location it was or whatever are Often
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Asha Michelle Wilson: times the showrunner's choices.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They can also be the network execs choices,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to be fair, but you would want it to be the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: showrunner because that's their vision.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That's being made most of the time.
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Exploring Writing and Screenwriting
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Marc Preston: I think writing has got to be one of those
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Marc Preston: real, like any writer, anything like that,
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Marc Preston: where you're just sitting, you blank page
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Marc Preston: Well, it's really a blank blinking cursor,
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Marc Preston: you know, on a screen, and it's all.
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Marc Preston: It's got to be really a lot of
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Marc Preston: self-starting, a lot of motivation Starting
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Marc Preston: internally, which begs the question you
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Marc Preston: know this is almost like homework, at least.
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Marc Preston: Is it?
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Marc Preston: Were you good in school?
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Marc Preston: I mean, was school like your jam?
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Marc Preston: I mean, is that?
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Marc Preston: Were you a creative writer in school?
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Marc Preston: Is this where are?
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Marc Preston: Were you just like a daydreamer?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was a little bit of both, I think I.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I always wanted, I loved TV and I loved
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Asha Michelle Wilson: escaping through the world of TV.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I and I was good in school.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I, I think, looking back on it at the time,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I was harder on myself.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was like, oh, I was never good.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And like math and science, my mom was like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you got solid A's and B's.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't know what you're talking about, but
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Asha Michelle Wilson: maybe I just didn't like it that much.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But, um, yeah, I think it's.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It's funny.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You say the thing about the blinking cursor.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was just telling a friend the other day I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: was like every time I finish a script and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: then have to start a new one the next week,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm always like that last one I wrote is
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the last one I'll ever be able to write.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm never gonna be able to read another one
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Asha Michelle Wilson: again.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That was it.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But every other time I read another one.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think and I think I was a little bit
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like that in school I think the blank page
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Asha Michelle Wilson: can be quite daunting, but I really like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Connecting with people.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I felt that same way, like I said, in
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Asha Michelle Wilson: school it was.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was on, you know, the newspaper and the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: yearbook and high school theater and, you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: know, student councils and all of that.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I liked working with people and talking
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Asha Michelle Wilson: with people and connecting with them and I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: think TV is now my way to do that, in which
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I get paid.
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Marc Preston: Well, did you go to college for this, or
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Marc Preston: where did you go?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to college.
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Marc Preston: Where'd you go?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yes, I went to Elon University in North
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Carolina liberal arts school and I studied
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Asha Michelle Wilson: a major that no longer exists there, that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: was media arts and entertainment.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They renamed it.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They renamed it because they realized it
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Asha Michelle Wilson: didn't cover enough.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I minored in narrative cinema because
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Asha Michelle Wilson: again it was like, oh, you can only do film.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But my senior year I convinced the Dean of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Communications to let me do an independent
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Asha Michelle Wilson: study In which I just read books about TV
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and watched TV and wrote a bunch of pilots
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and specs really cool, that's.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That's like.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Thank you.
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Marc Preston: I think a lot of people in different
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Marc Preston: creative careers.
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Marc Preston: I don't say that they know Everything that
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Marc Preston: they need to learn, but they know where to
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Marc Preston: start looking and kind of, you know, be
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Marc Preston: curious and just you know, as a
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Marc Preston: screenwriter, I mean, I'm assuming a few
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Marc Preston: folks are gonna listen to this who Want to
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Marc Preston: do that or are already doing it.
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Marc Preston: I think the last one I read I didn't
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Marc Preston: actually read it.
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Marc Preston: I I'm actually looking at it right now, but
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Marc Preston: I bought the book.
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Marc Preston: Then I got the audiobook because I was.
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Marc Preston: You know, I'm lazy, apparently this save
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Marc Preston: the cat.
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Marc Preston: Oh yes, what are some of your favorite
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Marc Preston: screenwriting books?
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Marc Preston: If you're gonna give like a top three or
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Marc Preston: something for people to dive into, you know,
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Marc Preston: I Would say for for movie writing.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Save the cat is great.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think it's a really great baseline of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like Knowing which tent poles you have to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: hit in a story and how to build that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: structure For a fun one.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That is not necessarily how to write a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: story, but I think says a lot about TV, tv
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Asha Michelle Wilson: writing.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Kristen Newman, I think, is her name, wrote
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Asha Michelle Wilson: what I was doing while you were breeding,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: which is about her kind of travel
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Asha Michelle Wilson: adventures while also being a TV writer,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and I think there's a lot of behind the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: scenes of Working in this industry that she
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Asha Michelle Wilson: talks about and along with her other
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Asha Michelle Wilson: adventures that are amazing.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And then I would say honestly this isn't a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: book, but I think reading as many scripts
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Asha Michelle Wilson: as you can that was really what I did in my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: independent study until still do a lot To
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Asha Michelle Wilson: this day is just getting my hands on, you
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Asha Michelle Wilson: know, my favorite TV scripts and movie
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Asha Michelle Wilson: scripts and seeing how they wrote Character
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Asha Michelle Wilson: descriptions and how they wrote dialogue,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and it's very cool.
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Marc Preston: They say it's one page per minute, roughly
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Marc Preston: right, but if I maybe I think it's Quentin
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Marc Preston: Tarantino.
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Marc Preston: I read one of his screenplays.
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Marc Preston: I looked over one of his screenplays and
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Marc Preston: there is a lot of specificity in what's
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Marc Preston: supposed to be happening on the screen and
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Marc Preston: so of course that's gonna make the script
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Marc Preston: fatter, you know, because there's so much
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Marc Preston: description, but I kind of like that as an
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Marc Preston: actor.
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Marc Preston: I think that makes that kind of lets
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Marc Preston: theater of the mind kind of come into play.
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Marc Preston: Let you know what's happening before you
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Marc Preston: even get on set.
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Preferences in Writing and Genre Inspiration
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Marc Preston: I know I'm kind of in the weeds on this,
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Marc Preston: but I'm kind of curious when you write, do
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Marc Preston: you put little things that are like set
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Marc Preston: dressing or the way the light is or
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Marc Preston: something that there may be characters,
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Marc Preston: mannerisms.
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Marc Preston: Do you like to put that in there or do you
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Marc Preston: like to focus mostly just on dialogue?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't tend to do too much of it because I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: feel like that can often step on the way
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the director might wanna do something or
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the way the actor might wanna do something.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, I also work in animation and I've
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Asha Michelle Wilson: written on Archer and in that, you know, I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: really have to put in, you know, certain
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Asha Michelle Wilson: fight stuff and things like that, because
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the animators need that.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So you have to kind of say, you know, like
814
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Asha Michelle Wilson: this character clothesline's another
815
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Asha Michelle Wilson: character like a wrestler kind of thing.
816
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But in live action stuff I do it a lot less
817
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Asha Michelle Wilson: unless I feel like it's vital for
818
,163 --> 00:27:43,900
Asha Michelle Wilson: understanding what's happening in the scene.
819
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So in terms of like the lighting kind of
820
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Asha Michelle Wilson: thing, there was something I was writing
821
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Asha Michelle Wilson: recently where a character you think
822
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Asha Michelle Wilson: they're gonna get attacked in a shower and
823
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Asha Michelle Wilson: lighting really had to be like psycho in
824
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the shower scene, and so I write that in
825
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Asha Michelle Wilson: because it does speak to how you're kind of
826
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Asha Michelle Wilson: visualizing it as you're reading it.
827
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But most of the time I stay away from it so
828
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't step on the other people I will be
829
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Asha Michelle Wilson: collaborating with with the script.
830
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Marc Preston: The writing is kind of well.
831
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Marc Preston: It's kind of two rails.
832
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Marc Preston: One is you come up with this whole idea
833
,221 --> 00:28:14,858
Marc Preston: that's yours and you've come up with it and
834
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Marc Preston: try to get you know, bought, or you come
835
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Marc Preston: into an existing production and you are one
836
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Marc Preston: of the writers.
837
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Marc Preston: Do you have a preference on one or the
838
,182 --> 00:28:22,323
Marc Preston: other?
839
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Marc Preston: Do you like to come into something that's
840
,121 --> 00:28:28,122
Marc Preston: already in flow and to kind of write to the
841
,162 --> 00:28:30,396
Marc Preston: tone of what's already going on, or do you
842
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Marc Preston: like to kind of create your own thing and
843
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Marc Preston: let it, you know, focus on that.
844
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, on paper they would seem kind of
845
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't know.
846
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Actually, I think if I'm working on someone
847
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Asha Michelle Wilson: else's show, if it's a story or a type of
848
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Asha Michelle Wilson: comedy that I can really connect to, that's
849
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the most important thing to me.
850
,215 --> 00:28:56,896
Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know, when it's your story, there
851
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Asha Michelle Wilson: is a certain passion that you have for it
852
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that is just can make it a little bit more
853
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Asha Michelle Wilson: exciting.
854
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So on paper I would prefer, you know, kind
855
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Asha Michelle Wilson: of making my own story come through.
856
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know it can be a lot harder.
857
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Asha Michelle Wilson: There's a lot more pressure.
858
,339 --> 00:29:13,062
Asha Michelle Wilson: The stakes are on you.
859
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Asha Michelle Wilson: When you're in someone else's room it's
860
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like going to someone else's party.
861
,255 --> 00:29:18,516
Asha Michelle Wilson: You're not worried if the dip is full or if
862
,556 --> 00:29:20,796
Asha Michelle Wilson: you know someone clogs the bathroom or if
863
,816 --> 00:29:23,400
Asha Michelle Wilson: there's not guests there, but if it's your
864
,460 --> 00:29:26,142
Asha Michelle Wilson: party, it sounds like some very specific
865
,475 --> 00:29:30,522
Asha Michelle Wilson: and interesting party notes, like there's a
866
,562 --> 00:29:31,525
Asha Michelle Wilson: little thought that went into this.
867
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Marc Preston: Maybe that's the writer in UJ.
868
,775 --> 00:29:33,698
Marc Preston: You don't think just party.
869
,718 --> 00:29:34,520
Marc Preston: Okay, what's going on?
870
,560 --> 00:29:35,403
Marc Preston: How full is the dip?
871
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Marc Preston: Specifics, somebody's having anxiety attack
872
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Marc Preston: because there's no plunger.
873
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Marc Preston: You know that's.
874
Writing for Established Celebrities
,376 --> 00:29:50,538
Marc Preston: Um, let's say you are writing on a show and
875
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Marc Preston: it is a very well established celebrity, an
876
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Marc Preston: actor, performer.
877
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Marc Preston: It doesn't make it a little bit easier
878
,717 --> 00:29:57,927
Marc Preston: because you know, like, if you're writing
879
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Marc Preston: for Seth Rogan or for somebody that's
880
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Marc Preston: really you know their tone.
881
,124 --> 00:30:04,472
Marc Preston: Does it make it easier or harder for you to
882
,512 --> 00:30:06,316
Marc Preston: kind of get you know down the middle and
883
,357 --> 00:30:07,038
Marc Preston: hit the crosshairs?
884
,870 --> 00:30:13,617
Asha Michelle Wilson: I just had this come up with a very, very
885
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Asha Michelle Wilson: well-known, award-winning actress, and I
886
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Asha Michelle Wilson: think, on one hand, let's say, if it's
887
,762 --> 00:30:26,890
Asha Michelle Wilson: something that like, if it's a character
888
,910 --> 00:30:28,638
Asha Michelle Wilson: that you know well, if it's not a new
889
,679 --> 00:30:30,186
Asha Michelle Wilson: character this actress is playing, let's
890
,226 --> 00:30:31,915
Asha Michelle Wilson: say it can make it a little easier because
891
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you know the baseline of it, you know the
892
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Asha Michelle Wilson: certain mannerisms that this character has.
893
,253 --> 00:30:40,397
Asha Michelle Wilson: But if it's the specific actor, that can be
894
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Asha Michelle Wilson: a little nerve-wracking because you know
895
,863 --> 00:30:45,813
Asha Michelle Wilson: you want it to be something that they can
896
,873 --> 00:30:46,996
Asha Michelle Wilson: connect to and understand.
897
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And you know, like, yeah, I just saw the
898
,616 --> 00:30:55,343
Asha Michelle Wilson: unbearable weight of massive talent, the
899
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Nicholas Cage movie and I went to a.
900
,573 --> 00:30:59,858
Asha Michelle Wilson: It was great, I loved it.
901
,351 --> 00:31:02,941
Asha Michelle Wilson: I went to a Q the event it was a WGA event
902
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and they had a Q&A with the director and
903
,889 --> 00:31:07,238
Asha Michelle Wilson: writers afterwards and they were talking
904
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Asha Michelle Wilson: about having written this really as a love
905
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Asha Michelle Wilson: letter to Nick Cage, but also sending it to
906
,797 --> 00:31:13,925
Asha Michelle Wilson: him and kind of having that worry of like
907
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Asha Michelle Wilson: ooh, I hope he doesn't think we're making
908
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Asha Michelle Wilson: fun of him.
909
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And I related to that because when you're
910
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Asha Michelle Wilson: writing something specifically for an actor,
911
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Asha Michelle Wilson: there's a fine line you have to walk.
912
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And so I do like it, though, because I
913
,955 --> 00:31:29,441
Asha Michelle Wilson: think it can get again make that character
914
,481 --> 00:31:32,837
Asha Michelle Wilson: very specific to the person, but there is
915
,877 --> 00:31:34,441
Asha Michelle Wilson: some pressure to it as well.
916
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Marc Preston: Some people may allude to some of the
917
,019 --> 00:31:39,329
Marc Preston: projects he's in, like, oh dear lord, you
918
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Marc Preston: give him a great script, great movie, he
919
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Marc Preston: knocks it out of the park every time.
920
,759 --> 00:31:45,758
Marc Preston: You know, I think there's something like.
921
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Marc Preston: I'm in New Orleans and somebody once told
922
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Marc Preston: me that you know, because all the
923
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Marc Preston: cemeteries here are above ground like
924
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Marc Preston: crypts, you know, they're not like, they
925
,674 --> 00:31:54,417
Marc Preston: don't weird.
926
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Marc Preston: I didn't think I'd discuss cemeteries on
927
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Marc Preston: this show ever, but here we go.
928
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Marc Preston: But he apparently the sea level.
929
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Marc Preston: You have to bury people above ground.
930
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Marc Preston: You know, if he's listening, google New
931
,393 --> 00:32:05,757
Marc Preston: Orleans Cemetery, you'll see.
932
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Marc Preston: I'm not that weird.
933
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Marc Preston: But apparently his is.
934
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Marc Preston: He created one that was.
935
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Marc Preston: Somebody said it was a pyramid.
936
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Marc Preston: So whenever he dies he's like I'm like.
937
,816 --> 00:32:14,110
Marc Preston: Some people may think what a weirdo I'm
938
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Marc Preston: like.
939
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Marc Preston: You know what?
940
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Marc Preston: Everything he does is just his own Nicholas
941
,497 --> 00:32:20,542
Marc Preston: Cage creative thing you know, I'm like you,
942
,562 --> 00:32:21,204
Marc Preston: gotta love that.
943
,710 --> 00:32:23,034
Asha Michelle Wilson: Something the director said.
944
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Something the director said that I really
945
,698 --> 00:32:27,516
Asha Michelle Wilson: liked was that they it had to be specific
946
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to Nick Cage, it was written for him and
947
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Asha Michelle Wilson: thank God he said yes, because he does have
948
,292 --> 00:32:36,740
Asha Michelle Wilson: this wild array of film that he's done, but
949
,760 --> 00:32:39,732
Asha Michelle Wilson: he also has such like universal public love
950
,812 --> 00:32:43,100
Asha Michelle Wilson: and support and like memeification that you
951
,140 --> 00:32:44,831
Asha Michelle Wilson: don't see in a lot of actors, and so I'm
952
,871 --> 00:32:46,917
Asha Michelle Wilson: like, hey, I love that he has a crypt.
953
,018 --> 00:32:47,720
Asha Michelle Wilson: That's amazing.
954
,451 --> 00:32:51,179
Marc Preston: Now I see comedy showing up a few times.
955
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Marc Preston: You've mentioned you mentioned Saturday
956
,994 --> 00:32:53,476
Marc Preston: Night Live.
957
,650 --> 00:32:55,136
Marc Preston: I had some of the programs you've worked on.
958
,550 --> 00:32:56,856
Marc Preston: Do you have a preference on genre?
959
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Marc Preston: Would you like to work on?
960
,011 --> 00:33:02,421
Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I always gravitate towards comedy.
961
,710 --> 00:33:04,436
Asha Michelle Wilson: Usually the ideas I came up with I come up
962
,476 --> 00:33:05,159
Asha Michelle Wilson: with I want to have.
963
,430 --> 00:33:07,024
Asha Michelle Wilson: So if I come up with like a sci-fi idea,
964
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Asha Michelle Wilson: it's a sci-fi comedy, if it's fantasy,
965
,432 --> 00:33:08,974
Asha Michelle Wilson: fantasy comedy.
966
,150 --> 00:33:12,682
Asha Michelle Wilson: But I think, you know, after leaving horror
967
,702 --> 00:33:14,370
Asha Michelle Wilson: story, I think I had a little bit of time
968
,390 --> 00:33:15,735
Asha Michelle Wilson: where I was like I just want to do comedy
969
,775 --> 00:33:16,337
Asha Michelle Wilson: and nothing else.
970
,910 --> 00:33:18,573
Asha Michelle Wilson: But now I'm sort of coming back around to
971
,614 --> 00:33:22,021
Asha Michelle Wilson: more genre, heavy genres in terms of like
972
,302 --> 00:33:25,116
Asha Michelle Wilson: sci-fi, little bit of horror, fantasy sort
973
,156 --> 00:33:28,587
Asha Michelle Wilson: of thing, just because I think there's a
974
,667 --> 00:33:30,534
Asha Michelle Wilson: lot to explore in that world, especially
975
,554 --> 00:33:31,377
Asha Michelle Wilson: when it comes to comedy.
976
,490 --> 00:33:32,836
Asha Michelle Wilson: Again, you know you have Blazing Saddles
977
,950 --> 00:33:35,438
Asha Michelle Wilson: that was a Western comedy and Spaceballs,
978
,478 --> 00:33:37,274
Asha Michelle Wilson: space Comedy, and so I think I really love
979
,434 --> 00:33:41,075
Asha Michelle Wilson: blending those and I also I really love a
980
,175 --> 00:33:41,697
Asha Michelle Wilson: romance.
981
,230 --> 00:33:44,557
Asha Michelle Wilson: That's just my ooey-gooey heart.
982
,851 --> 00:33:48,715
Asha Michelle Wilson: I am a romantic optimist and so I like a
983
,755 --> 00:33:49,439
Asha Michelle Wilson: happy ending.
984
,553 --> 00:33:52,098
Asha Michelle Wilson: I like a happy ending, kiss.
985
,750 --> 00:33:55,035
Asha Michelle Wilson: So yeah, I think those are the ones I'm
986
,115 --> 00:33:57,320
Asha Michelle Wilson: gravitating towards most right now, which
987
,360 --> 00:33:58,362
Asha Michelle Wilson: is all of them, I guess.
988
,592 --> 00:34:01,380
Marc Preston: I mean, I guess it's a great vocation for
989
,440 --> 00:34:03,308
Marc Preston: someone who's got, who's a little lady HD.
990
,348 --> 00:34:04,413
Marc Preston: Not saying that, I mean, is the
991
,453 --> 00:34:06,351
Marc Preston: entertainment business after all, but the
992
,431 --> 00:34:08,621
Marc Preston: whole idea that you can go from genre to
993
,662 --> 00:34:09,606
Marc Preston: genre, you can go to the.
994
,048 --> 00:34:11,713
Marc Preston: If you get kind of like kind of not tired,
995
,753 --> 00:34:13,238
Marc Preston: but you're kind of burnt on one thing,
996
,278 --> 00:34:15,533
Marc Preston: maybe you're like oh, man I could do this
997
,594 --> 00:34:16,999
Marc Preston: thing, though, and now you're reinspired.
998
,110 --> 00:34:18,937
Marc Preston: So you know you're not relegated to just
999
,037 --> 00:34:19,378
Marc Preston: one thing.
Speaker:1000
,690 --> 00:34:21,875
Marc Preston: Now, as far as shows go like what's on
Speaker:1001
Current Shows and Personal Favorites
,935 --> 00:34:24,862
Marc Preston: right now that's inspiring you or that you
Speaker:1002
,882 --> 00:34:26,393
Marc Preston: just hey, it could be just something you
Speaker:1003
,413 --> 00:34:27,997
Marc Preston: like watching, because you can just kind of
Speaker:1004
,017 --> 00:34:29,701
Marc Preston: chill out and not even think, and you know,
Speaker:1005
,721 --> 00:34:30,402
Marc Preston: what do you like watching?
Speaker:1006
,510 --> 00:34:33,017
Marc Preston: Maybe the writers for the shows you think
Speaker:1007
,057 --> 00:34:33,860
Marc Preston: are just excellent.
Speaker:1008
,120 --> 00:34:36,005
Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, I know everyone always talks
Speaker:1009
,045 --> 00:34:37,909
Asha Michelle Wilson: about this show, but I think it's worthy of
Speaker:1010
,970 --> 00:34:38,030
Asha Michelle Wilson: it.
Speaker:1011
,090 --> 00:34:41,227
Asha Michelle Wilson: As Abad Elementary, I think I have a few
Speaker:1012
,268 --> 00:34:42,452
Asha Michelle Wilson: mutual friends with Quinta.
Speaker:1013
,532 --> 00:34:44,198
Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't really know her personally but I
Speaker:1014
,239 --> 00:34:45,762
Asha Michelle Wilson: think, having seen her at parties and
Speaker:1015
,782 --> 00:34:49,008
Asha Michelle Wilson: events and stuff, I'm just really I'm just
Speaker:1016
,509 --> 00:34:52,561
Asha Michelle Wilson: in awe of how she was able to make such a
Speaker:1017
,761 --> 00:34:57,753
Asha Michelle Wilson: fun, smart show that just kind of crossed
Speaker:1018
,114 --> 00:35:00,158
Asha Michelle Wilson: well just across the board.
Speaker:1019
,198 --> 00:35:01,922
Asha Michelle Wilson: Everybody loves it and I think that's just
Speaker:1020
,403 --> 00:35:05,110
Asha Michelle Wilson: incredible and it's so great and it is
Speaker:1021
,431 --> 00:35:06,573
Asha Michelle Wilson: again a heartwarming watch.
Speaker:1022
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I also I really loved the Gilded Age.
Speaker:1023
,570 --> 00:35:15,776
Asha Michelle Wilson: I just enjoyed watching that story and the
Speaker:1024
,796 --> 00:35:19,710
Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of escapism of it was fun and I'm
Speaker:1025
,730 --> 00:35:20,472
Asha Michelle Wilson: trying to think if there's any.
Speaker:1026
,733 --> 00:35:22,859
Asha Michelle Wilson: And I'm a sucker for adult animation.
Speaker:1027
,879 --> 00:35:24,303
Asha Michelle Wilson: I love a Bob's Burgers.
Speaker:1028
,025 --> 00:35:26,850
Asha Michelle Wilson: I loved Archery before I wrote on it and
Speaker:1029
,890 --> 00:35:27,512
Asha Michelle Wilson: still love it.
Speaker:1030
,781 --> 00:35:29,189
Marc Preston: Really Well, that's got to be kind of cool
Speaker:1031
,210 --> 00:35:30,759
Marc Preston: to like something and then you show up in
Speaker:1032
,779 --> 00:35:31,845
Marc Preston: the room and like, oh, I'm one of the
Speaker:1033
,905 --> 00:35:32,650
Marc Preston: people doing it.
Speaker:1034
,911 --> 00:35:34,138
Marc Preston: I remember I used to watch Family Guy.
Speaker:1035
,159 --> 00:35:34,701
Marc Preston: Back in the day.
Speaker:1036
,741 --> 00:35:36,347
Marc Preston: My kids used to call it Daddy Cartoon.
Speaker:1037
,310 --> 00:35:38,233
Marc Preston: Now it's like.
Speaker:1038
,695 --> 00:35:40,902
Marc Preston: Now they love watching it and of course, as
Speaker:1039
,922 --> 00:35:43,130
Marc Preston: teenage older teenagers they get far much
Speaker:1040
,191 --> 00:35:43,773
Marc Preston: more of the humor.
Speaker:1041
,816 --> 00:35:46,382
Marc Preston: But you know, you mentioned something about
Speaker:1042
,422 --> 00:35:47,486
Marc Preston: sci-fi or fantasy.
Speaker:1043
,547 --> 00:35:50,377
Marc Preston: Have you caught Outer Range on?
Speaker:1044
,458 --> 00:35:52,285
Marc Preston: I think it's on Amazon Prime, josh Brolin.
Speaker:1045
,767 --> 00:35:53,349
Asha Michelle Wilson: I haven't.
Speaker:1046
,851 --> 00:35:55,196
Marc Preston: It's one of those shows like you're
Speaker:1047
,216 --> 00:35:56,401
Marc Preston: watching going okay, all right, they're
Speaker:1048
,421 --> 00:35:57,023
Marc Preston: going a little bit here.
Speaker:1049
,264 --> 00:35:59,050
Marc Preston: No, like you're like holy shit, okay.
Speaker:1050
,090 --> 00:36:02,582
Marc Preston: This is a thing I always like being taken
Speaker:1051
,642 --> 00:36:04,728
Marc Preston: out, caught off guard, like I didn't expect
Speaker:1052
,748 --> 00:36:05,230
Marc Preston: something.
Speaker:1053
,290 --> 00:36:07,241
Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh, I fully understand that One of the
Speaker:1054
,301 --> 00:36:08,825
Asha Michelle Wilson: shows that was actually probably my
Speaker:1055
,886 --> 00:36:10,851
Asha Michelle Wilson: favorite show of this year so far was
Speaker:1056
,951 --> 00:36:11,292
Asha Michelle Wilson: Reacher.
Speaker:1057
,341 --> 00:36:13,787
Announcer: I loved Reacher that was great and I think
Speaker:1058
,807 --> 00:36:15,153
Announcer: it really surprised me.
Speaker:1059
,695 --> 00:36:18,003
Asha Michelle Wilson: I loved it and I think I really was along
Speaker:1060
,043 --> 00:36:18,564
Asha Michelle Wilson: for the ride.
Speaker:1061
,605 --> 00:36:20,329
Asha Michelle Wilson: I was really caught off guard by a lot of
Speaker:1062
,349 --> 00:36:22,386
Asha Michelle Wilson: the elements of it and I just I think about
Speaker:1063
,406 --> 00:36:22,849
Asha Michelle Wilson: that show a lot.
Speaker:1064
,869 --> 00:36:23,754
Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm surprised I didn't come in my head
Speaker:1065
,775 --> 00:36:23,915
Asha Michelle Wilson: first.
Speaker:1066
,935 --> 00:36:24,700
Asha Michelle Wilson: That is so funny.
Speaker:1067
,800 --> 00:36:26,364
Marc Preston: You said that because I saw that and I was
Speaker:1068
,384 --> 00:36:27,848
Marc Preston: like there's not.
Speaker:1069
,909 --> 00:36:29,361
Marc Preston: It's not just the way it's written, but
Speaker:1070
,381 --> 00:36:31,090
Marc Preston: there's kind of a rhythm and a cadence to
Speaker:1071
,130 --> 00:36:32,116
Marc Preston: how the lines are delivered.
Speaker:1072
,156 --> 00:36:33,763
Marc Preston: There's a overall seemed like an overall
Speaker:1073
,804 --> 00:36:35,190
Marc Preston: concept about the way the show is done.
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Marc Preston: I like going okay, I don't see anything
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Marc Preston: else like this on TV.
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Marc Preston: I like that, you know, and with so much out
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Marc Preston: there, all the streamers and everything, it
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Marc Preston: seems like everything that could be out
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Marc Preston: there is out there.
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Marc Preston: So it's nice to be surprised, Like oh, I
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Marc Preston: didn't see this coming.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, now the now.
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Marc Preston: I did see you got.
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Marc Preston: You got BET.
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Marc Preston: You're on the list of six black women show
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Marc Preston: runners who inspired TV's diverse
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Marc Preston: renaissance.
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Marc Preston: That's like kind of a cool recognition Do
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Marc Preston: you feel yeah, no pressure yeah.
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Marc Preston: That was just about.
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Marc Preston: That was going to be the follow up
Speaker:1092
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Marc Preston: Hollywood being Hollywood, the industry
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Marc Preston: being what it is.
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Marc Preston: Once you start getting some attention, is
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Marc Preston: there?
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Marc Preston: Is there kind of like now people are paying
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Marc Preston: attention, this is game day.
Speaker:1098
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Marc Preston: I got to perform.
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Marc Preston: How does that?
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Marc Preston: How does that affect you to to now be
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Marc Preston: coming on folks, coming on folks radars?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, I think you know, in a lot of ways it
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Asha Michelle Wilson: just makes me think about the difference
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Asha Michelle Wilson: between public success and private success.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think during lockdown I was honestly
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Asha Michelle Wilson: working more than I ever had.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was pitching almost every day and I was
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Asha Michelle Wilson: in general meetings and I was writing hours
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and hours I would.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was in London and I was working from 10am
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Asha Michelle Wilson: until 5pm.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: When I got into a Zoom writer's room from
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Asha Michelle Wilson: 5pm until midnight and then I'd write till
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Asha Michelle Wilson: 3am and then sleep and then wake up and do
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Asha Michelle Wilson: it again and nobody knew about anything I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: was working on.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It was all just like my private kind of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: success.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And then fast forward to now when it's
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Asha Michelle Wilson: amazing to be on lists and these articles
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Asha Michelle Wilson: coming out and having more eyes on me in
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that way.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I think, you know, in a weird way it's
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Asha Michelle Wilson: not necessarily as fulfilling as the kind
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Asha Michelle Wilson: of private success that you get from just
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Asha Michelle Wilson: being enjoying the stuff that you're
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Asha Michelle Wilson: working on.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think for me I just try to focus on
Speaker:1129
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like I'm so lucky to get to do this, this
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Asha Michelle Wilson: thing I've been dreaming of doing since I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: was six and you know I don't usually.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm sure there's like one day a month where
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I have a lot of anxiety about it, but most
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Asha Michelle Wilson: of the time, you know, it's kind of the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I get to work on a show that once I dressed
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Asha Michelle Wilson: as a character on Halloween as like I get
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you know like things like that that are
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Asha Michelle Wilson: just really cool and exciting, and I think
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that helps keep everything leveled.
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Marc Preston: Now, do you have any siblings?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I have half siblings on my dad's side quite
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Asha Michelle Wilson: a few, but I'm my mom's only kid.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But actually last summer I flew out my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: oldest half sister.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: She's 19 now.
Speaker:1147
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Asha Michelle Wilson: She was 18 at the time and I flew her out
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to LA and that was really exciting to kind
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Asha Michelle Wilson: of like see LA through her eyes.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: She, you know, wanted to see the Hollywood
Speaker:1151
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Walk of Fame and all of that.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But none of them work in entertainment, so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm kind of the only one that's in this.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, whenever I go to LA, to me it's
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Marc Preston: always an eating expedition.
Speaker:1156
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Marc Preston: You know it's always like in and out.
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Marc Preston: I try to.
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Marc Preston: You know I was a big fan of Anthony
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Marc Preston: Bourdain and his thing was always when he
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Marc Preston: gets out, when he lands at LAX, he always
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Marc Preston: goes in and out burger.
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Marc Preston: I'm like that became my thing.
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Marc Preston: I always do that now because of him.
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Marc Preston: It's my like peng homage in a greasy way.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I love that.
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Marc Preston: But I'm always curious because folks who do
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Marc Preston: this my intrigue is okay a lot of people
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Marc Preston: who do it are either only children or maybe
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Marc Preston: they have older siblings, but they're kind
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Marc Preston: of in their own head a lot, for whatever
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Marc Preston: reason.
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Marc Preston: You know, like my generation.
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Latchkey Kids and Creativity
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Marc Preston: You know I was speaking with LaMonica
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Marc Preston: Garrett recently and we're talking about
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Marc Preston: how you know your latchkey kids back in the
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Marc Preston: day.
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Marc Preston: You're kind of left alone.
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Marc Preston: You're in your own head doing your own
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Marc Preston: thing where you kind of as a kid creative
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Marc Preston: like you need your own creative.
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Marc Preston: Like you time or are you very gregarious?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I also want to say you have a Bourdain like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: voice, which is I'm a huge fan of his, so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that's a big comment.
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Marc Preston: He's my spirit animal.
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Marc Preston: I appreciate that.
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Marc Preston: Oh great, I'm going to carry that around
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Marc Preston: the rest of the day.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Good, I'm glad you should.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I was also a latchkey kid and, but
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I I was an outgoing kid.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I moved around a lot growing up.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I didn't go to a school for more than two
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Asha Michelle Wilson: years until high school, so I was kind of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: all over the place.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I had to sort of be outgoing and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: energetic and make friends.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was kind of the kid who went up to people
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Asha Michelle Wilson: on the playground and was like, do you want
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to be my friend?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And most of the time they said yes, and so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: you know I wasn't very shy at all.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I really liked doing like impressions that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I wasn't good at.
Speaker:1205
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I liked doing accents for people.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I was definitely more gregarious.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's so funny how many of the people
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Marc Preston: in this industry were actually.
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Marc Preston: They're actually fundamentally more shy,
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Marc Preston: more reserved, but when they're on camera
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Marc Preston: it's like you know, but what are you
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Marc Preston: working on now?
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Marc Preston: What's coming up in the pipeline?
Speaker:1214
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Marc Preston: Either things that are already kind of in
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Marc Preston: the queue, or things maybe you're wanting
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Marc Preston: to kind of get into a queue.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I'm in development with Paramount Plus
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Asha Michelle Wilson: right now on a project that's a remake
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Asha Michelle Wilson: reboot, I guess of the 1990s film Soap Dish
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Asha Michelle Wilson: that started with Goldberg and Sally Fields,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and so we're kind of in that process right
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Asha Michelle Wilson: now.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And then I'm pitching out a few projects.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm also working on season 14 of Archer,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: which is exciting, and I'm also working on
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Asha Michelle Wilson: a movie with Vanessa Hudgens and Alexandra
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Ship that the amazing Kimmy Gatewood is
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Asha Michelle Wilson: going to direct, and so we're kind of in
Speaker:1229
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Asha Michelle Wilson: early development on that as well and so
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Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of, you know, got a few different
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,391 --> 00:41:48,327
Asha Michelle Wilson: fires going and moving them all forward.
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Marc Preston: And I don't know how you do that, because I
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Marc Preston: got to focus on one thing at a time.
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Marc Preston: I say that I've got all kinds of crap going
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Marc Preston: on in my three teenagers.
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Marc Preston: But Paramount Plus, they're putting out
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Marc Preston: some good stuff.
Speaker:1238
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Marc Preston: I was a big fan of 1883.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, that's like their biggest hit.
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Marc Preston: The Paramount Plus thing is that something
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Marc Preston: rough ETA.
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Marc Preston: And well, of course you know, man plans,
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Marc Preston: god laughs, of course.
Speaker:1244
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Marc Preston: But I mean what, what, what, especially in
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Marc Preston: this business?
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Marc Preston: When is that?
Speaker:1247
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Marc Preston: When are you thinking that make your next
Speaker:1248
,688 --> 00:42:20,032
Marc Preston: project could be rolling out?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Well I did Well.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: In terms of the next project that I have
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Asha Michelle Wilson: coming out, the project that I worked on, a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: show for Netflix called Agent King that
Speaker:1253
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Asha Michelle Wilson: should be coming out this fall.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: In terms of the Paramount project, that is
Speaker:1255
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Asha Michelle Wilson: still a little unknown.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm hoping sooner rather than later, but I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: think in this industry it's kind of always
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like you said you make a plan and execs
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Asha Michelle Wilson: laugh.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Really I think you should say but but
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Asha Michelle Wilson: hoping sooner rather than later for
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Asha Michelle Wilson: everything, really.
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Marc Preston: Well, that's pretty cool.
Speaker:1264
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Marc Preston: We'll tell you what I do before before we
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Marc Preston: wrap up always have what I call my seven
Speaker:1266
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Marc Preston: questions, purely just fun.
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Marc Preston: First question I always love asking because
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Marc Preston: I'm a food guy I mentioned Anthony Bourdain
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Marc Preston: says, right down the middle of where I'm at
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Marc Preston: what is your favorite comfort food?
Speaker:1271
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Marc Preston: That thing that's like if you've had a
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Marc Preston: rough day or maybe it's a whole lot of work,
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Marc Preston: you're like you know you could go eat
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Marc Preston: healthy, but you know I'm just going to go
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Marc Preston: get this or maybe it.
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Marc Preston: Maybe your comfort food is healthy, who
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Marc Preston: knows?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I really love cooking and a meal that, if
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I've had a rough day, that is actually like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: not difficult to put together but really
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Asha Michelle Wilson: soothes my soul, is I'll make a steak and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: mashed potatoes and put like a bunch of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: truffle salt on it.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And that feels like a little elevate, yeah,
Speaker:1285
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and it feels a little fancy and very like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: warm and cozy, but does not take long to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: put together.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, you're kind of like me.
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Marc Preston: It's like, what's that one little thing you
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Marc Preston: can do to kind of like make a seem a little
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Marc Preston: fancier, especially what's nice when you're
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Marc Preston: doing it just for yourself.
Speaker:1293
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Marc Preston: You're like, look, I made this.
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Marc Preston: You know nobody's around the notice, but
Speaker:1295
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Marc Preston: you're proud of yourself.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down with three
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Marc Preston: people for a cup of coffee and it'd be a
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Marc Preston: living or not who would those three people
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Marc Preston: be?
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Marc Preston: Would love to talk story with for a few
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Marc Preston: hours?
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Marc Preston: I was.
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Marc Preston: Whenever I asked this question.
Speaker:1304
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Marc Preston: I always get the coffee bean and tea leaf
Speaker:1305
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Marc Preston: across from the director's guild on sunset.
Speaker:1306
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Marc Preston: That's that coffee shop always comes to my
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Marc Preston: mind whenever I ask this question.
Speaker:1308
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Marc Preston: So, because I guess that's where he's to
Speaker:1309
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Marc Preston: post up with my computer and do work.
Speaker:1310
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Marc Preston: But who would you like to sit down with?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Madeleine Khan, kevin Klein love him and I
Speaker:1312
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and Tracy Ellis Ross.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think she'd just be fun.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, madeleine.
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Marc Preston: Khan is funny.
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Marc Preston: Going back to Mel Brooks movie, yeah,
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Marc Preston: frankenstein, what am I?
Speaker:1318
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Marc Preston: Drawing brain.
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Marc Preston: How can I brain fart, madeleine?
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Marc Preston: Khan I had like a little.
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Marc Preston: I remember being a kid kid have a little
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Marc Preston: micro crush on her Like it's like she was
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Marc Preston: micro crush.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: macro crush Come on.
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Marc Preston: She, she was.
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Marc Preston: I mean, because I was a kid, she was older,
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Marc Preston: but she's funny, I was like I like that,
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Marc Preston: that's cool, man.
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Marc Preston: Now that brings me actually to my next
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Marc Preston: question who was your celebrity crush when
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Marc Preston: you were a kid?
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Marc Preston: Oh, when I was a kid, oh hey you want to
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Marc Preston: bring up who it is now we're going to take
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Marc Preston: that answer also, no worries.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was gonna say I don't know if I have one
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Asha Michelle Wilson: now, they're all great.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: When I was a kid, I think Okay, when I was
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Asha Michelle Wilson: really little, it was a classic Jonathan
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Taylor Thomas type.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: That was definitely like my first onscreen
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Asha Michelle Wilson: one.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Also, Jeremy Sumter from the live action
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Peter Pan was a big one.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Those were like my first, like oh my gosh,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: they're so pretty kind of crushes for sure.
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Marc Preston: When you only have three networks.
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Marc Preston: I mean you had these big teen heartthrobs
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Marc Preston: gazillion different shows on.
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Marc Preston: It's not like everybody's watching, you
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Marc Preston: know.
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Marc Preston: Anyway, I'm getting that time machine over
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Marc Preston: and over again and just go tell my kids
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Marc Preston: like, say there were three networks much
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Marc Preston: upon a time.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Back in my day.
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Marc Preston: Now the next question I got if you were to
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Marc Preston: go to an exotic island, it's actually
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Marc Preston: somewhere you want to be.
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Marc Preston: You're gonna be there a year, though, and
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Marc Preston: there's no streaming or nothing.
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Marc Preston: You can bring a DVD of a movie, and you can
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Marc Preston: bring one album with you for a year, and
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Marc Preston: that's all your entertainment.
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Marc Preston: What are you gonna bring with you?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: The movie would be Clueless.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I love that movie.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: The album would probably be oh gosh, I'm
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Asha Michelle Wilson: blanking on the exact name of it, but it's
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
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Asha Michelle Wilson: duets album, that's.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: It's like a very thick album, but that one
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think they just.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I love their voices together.
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Marc Preston: Very good, very good.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's funny, clueless, I think, as
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Marc Preston: some of the most memorable dialogue.
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Marc Preston: I mean, there's so many quotes from that
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Marc Preston: movie but it's kind of not got lost in time,
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Marc Preston: but you gotta have to remember the movie
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Marc Preston: that you know, I remember it, I remember it
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Marc Preston: enough for a lot of people, I think.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down from the time
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Marc Preston: you wake up to the time you go to bed and
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Marc Preston: you're to define a perfect day, what would
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Marc Preston: that perfect?
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Marc Preston: What would the component parts be of that
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Marc Preston: perfect day?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Okay, I would probably schedule the day
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Asha Michelle Wilson: around food.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: So if I could do like a nice big breakfast
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Asha Michelle Wilson: in the morning with like blueberry pancakes
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and like bacon and eggs, and then I would
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Asha Michelle Wilson: want to oh, part of me wants to just say
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Disneyland actually as the whole day.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I'm gonna go for big breakfast, maybe
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Asha Michelle Wilson: going to the beach and then having like a
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Asha Michelle Wilson: nice lobster roll by the beach and then
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Asha Michelle Wilson: going to see, like you know what I really
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Asha Michelle Wilson: loved, this would actually be a part of my
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Asha Michelle Wilson: perfect day.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I remember the Hollywood Bowl used to do
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Asha Michelle Wilson: these shows where they would play a movie
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Asha Michelle Wilson: like, let's say, beauty and the Beast or
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Asha Michelle Wilson: something, and they'd have actors come in
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to sing the songs and then there was a live
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Asha Michelle Wilson: orchestra playing in these watching the
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Asha Michelle Wilson: movie.
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Marc Preston: I think I remember hearing about that yeah,
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Marc Preston: they were amazing.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: They did the Little Mermaid and they were
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Asha Michelle Wilson: just, really just nice moments and I would
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Asha Michelle Wilson: probably want to do that at night and then
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Asha Michelle Wilson: maybe in the in-between, take like a tap
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Asha Michelle Wilson: dancing class for fun or something, and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: probably write at some point.
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Marc Preston: No, that's funny.
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Marc Preston: So the big breakfast Anthony Bourdain
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Marc Preston: mentioning that, and one of the things he
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Marc Preston: turned me onto, the idea of like it doesn't
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Marc Preston: have to be a sweet whatever.
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Marc Preston: You have a big bowl of like Asian noodles,
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Marc Preston: but it's spicy.
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Marc Preston: So I've kind of got a thing.
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Marc Preston: Well, it's the Texas part of me.
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Marc Preston: I like a.
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Marc Preston: I have some called chili chilies which are
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Marc Preston: really big, like kind of a spicy big.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh, I love spicy.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: If I could end the day with a bowl of
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Asha Michelle Wilson: cereal, that would really like cap
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Asha Michelle Wilson: everything off.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I love spicy in general.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I was gonna say so I'm a big fan of that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Very good, very good.
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Marc Preston: Okay, now the next question I've got If you
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Marc Preston: weren't doing this, you weren't doing
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Marc Preston: something in this creative realm.
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Marc Preston: But they said, okay, no more movies or TV.
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Marc Preston: What would your vocation be?
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Marc Preston: What would be the thing that turns you on?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh my God, I think I just was thinking
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Asha Michelle Wilson: about this the other day.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: My answer used to always be like I'd like
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to like own a bakery in Europe or something
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and, just, you know, make cookies and stuff.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But lately I've kind of I mean, if I really
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Asha Michelle Wilson: couldn't do movies or TV, I'd probably
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Asha Michelle Wilson: write books, like I'd probably write beachy
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Asha Michelle Wilson: rom-com books about like characters that
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Asha Michelle Wilson: have to fake a relationship in order to go
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to a wedding or something, just because I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: think those make a lot of people happy and
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Asha Michelle Wilson: they're very fun.
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Marc Preston: You said BG rom-com.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: A beach read, beach read, rom-com.
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Marc Preston: Beach read oh okay, I gotcha.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yes, the very light, fluffy, heartwarming
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Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of books.
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Marc Preston: But the last question I've got for you if
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Marc Preston: you had a DeLorean, you can cruise back in
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Marc Preston: time and connect with 16 year old Asha.
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Marc Preston: What piece of advice would you offer
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Marc Preston: yourself?
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Marc Preston: That would be to get you on a better track
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Marc Preston: or maybe to bring more joy to your life.
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Marc Preston: In that moment, what would you tell
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Marc Preston: yourself?
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Asha Michelle Wilson: To try and live in the moment as much as
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Asha Michelle Wilson: possible.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think when you're, I was a kid who knew
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Asha Michelle Wilson: what I wanted to do.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I knew I wanted to write TV, especially by
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Asha Michelle Wilson: 16.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: And so much of my life was, like you know,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the kind of cliche teenager.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I gotta get out of this town and make it to
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Asha Michelle Wilson: the city and no part of me wants to go back
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Asha Michelle Wilson: and relive high school or college at all.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know, I think I wanted to grow up
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Asha Michelle Wilson: very quickly.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I wanted to, you know, be where I am now,
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Asha Michelle Wilson: to be honest, and where I am now is great.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: But where I was then was great too, and I
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Asha Michelle Wilson: think it's hard to remember that sometimes.
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Marc Preston: So I'd probably say that it's funny
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Marc Preston: speaking with Neil deGrasse Tyson and
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Marc Preston: asking him the same thing and he's like
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Marc Preston: that's kind of a farcical question.
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Marc Preston: I mean I understood his perspective because
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Marc Preston: anything, there you're creating a whole new
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Marc Preston: universe for yourself because every thing
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Marc Preston: happens.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: Creating paradoxes, of course.
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Marc Preston: Exactly, you know so Well.
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Marc Preston: I so appreciate your time again and I wish
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Marc Preston: you all the best.
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Marc Preston: I'm looking forward to seeing your name
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Marc Preston: showing up in more and more credits, and
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Marc Preston: most certainly You're so great to meet you.
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Marc Preston: Well, it's certainly a pleasure.
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Marc Preston: Now, please, next time you're sent your
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Marc Preston: food person, next time you're on Fairfax
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Marc Preston: you got a canter.
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Marc Preston: Please get some of the matzah ball soup for
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Marc Preston: me.
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Asha Michelle Wilson: I will absolutely.
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Marc Preston: All right, asha Michelle Wilson, enjoy this
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Marc Preston: chat.
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Marc Preston: Very cool.
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Marc Preston: We kind of, you know, pulled the curtain
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Marc Preston: back, learned a little bit more about TV,
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Marc Preston: how it's made, writing for TV, glad to have
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Marc Preston: her on the show and tell you what the
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Marc Preston: All right, that's it for this episode.
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Marc Preston: Looking forward to the next one and look
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Asha Michelle Wilson
Showrunner | Writer | Producer | Actor
Asha Michelle Wilson is a rising showrunner, writer, producer and actress. Currently, she is in script-to-series development with Paramount+ and is set to pen the "Soapdish" TV series for the streamer. Wilson wrote on the upcoming Netflix series "Agent King" and FX's "Archer" and has previously written on "American Horror Story" on FX, "Incarnate" on Netflix, and "The Hospital" on Amazon. Additionally, she wrote, produced and starred in the short film "Friends Like These," which was a winner at the London Short Film Festival.