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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: you back for another episode.

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Marc Preston: If this is your first episode, hey, thanks

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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: 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: 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: for Paramount Plus.

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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: 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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Marc Preston: lack of traffic.

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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: 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: 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: 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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Marc Preston: like anything I can do, I want to do it.

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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: 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: 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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Asha Michelle Wilson: out here.

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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: I think right now, my focus is making my

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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: wear and going into the post department and

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Asha Michelle Wilson: going through that whole process.

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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: It seems like nowadays, especially after

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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: 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: 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: being on set that a lot of the writers that

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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: 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: don't get to see as much of in a feature

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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: features have the nice thing of just having

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: It's funny the thing you said about

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I had a director friend of mine once say

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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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Asha Michelle Wilson: We watched a lot of movies and watch a lot

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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think they definitely handed off some

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Asha Michelle Wilson: But no, no one was really in the

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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: word purveyor and as a writer, I had to say

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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think growing up there was definitely

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I feel like anyone who writes comedy in

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think Mel Brooks was really a big one for

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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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Marc Preston: You know, Nobody took any of it seriously,

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I think Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor

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Asha Michelle Wilson: the right way, but you know, I think Mel

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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I don't know if anyone could beat it.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: So maybe they shouldn't, not just on a

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Marc Preston: I remember in elementary school watching

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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: But at the same time I went to theater camp

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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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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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Marc Preston: We can form a club.

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Marc Preston: But of course you got to fill in everything

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Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, for sure.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know I'm brought on to them, so the

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Asha Michelle Wilson: like this.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: So I can kind of flesh out the characters

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Asha Michelle Wilson: from there.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm trying to think if there's an example

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Asha Michelle Wilson: that I specifically have, but I can't think

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Asha Michelle Wilson: one right now.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: But I think you know once I, once I have

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Asha Michelle Wilson: that, you know back and forth, and then I

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Asha Michelle Wilson: have the characters.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I sort of then flesh out the characters of,

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Asha Michelle Wilson: like, okay, this person said this sarcastic

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Asha Michelle Wilson: thing, why would they say that, and what's

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Asha Michelle Wilson: their character background, and the person

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Asha Michelle Wilson: who responded, same thing.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: And then you know, I'll kind of take it

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Asha Michelle Wilson: from there, unless I mean, there are times

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Asha Michelle Wilson: when I have a story idea that is more of a

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Asha Michelle Wilson: plot driven thing, and then I have to

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Asha Michelle Wilson: figure out, okay, who would be the most

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Asha Michelle Wilson: funny people to make this plot interesting,

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Asha Michelle Wilson: or the most you know Interesting people to

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Asha Michelle Wilson: make this plot fun.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, sometimes when I'm writing I they say

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Marc Preston: the common theory is don't cast it while

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Marc Preston: you're writing it.

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Marc Preston: But you know, in my mind when you're

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Marc Preston: writing it don't you automatically start

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Marc Preston: getting Personality traits and physicality

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Marc Preston: and things that some actor may represent.

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Marc Preston: So when you're writing, do you do that?

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Marc Preston: I'm not necessarily you're casting it, but

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Marc Preston: kind of where you can have a visualization

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Marc Preston: in your head of who's saying these words.

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Marc Preston: You know, do you do that?

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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: specifically with myself and a British

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Asha Michelle Wilson: actor comedian in mind, and when I was in

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Asha Michelle Wilson: London last year I met with him and now

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Asha Michelle Wilson: he's on the project.

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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: some projects where I've Written it with a

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Asha Michelle Wilson: specific actor in mind and then within the

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Asha Michelle Wilson: next year the actor becomes so huge that

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Asha Michelle Wilson: they I'm sure they are Booked out for four

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Asha Michelle Wilson: years and I'm like who knows if they'll be

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Asha Michelle Wilson: able to do this project.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: So you know, it could go both ways, but I

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Asha Michelle Wilson: do think it can help to have a type in mind,

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Asha Michelle Wilson: like, even if it's not physically, then if

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Asha Michelle Wilson: it's just someone who you know can do a

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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: Haddish does is very different than the

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Asha Michelle Wilson: style of comedy that, let's say, issa Rae

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Asha Michelle Wilson: does.

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Asha Michelle Wilson: You know they have different styles and

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Asha Michelle Wilson: different ways of speaking in different

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Asha Michelle Wilson: mannerisms and if I was writing a character,

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Asha Michelle Wilson: you know, keeping in mind the way that one

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Asha Michelle Wilson: speaks over the other might just help make

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Asha Michelle Wilson: the read more interesting of someone

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Asha Michelle Wilson: reading that script or sending it to

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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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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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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

710

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Asha Michelle Wilson: know, student councils and all of that.

711

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I liked working with people and talking

712

00:24:05,465 --> 00:24:07,390

Asha Michelle Wilson: with people and connecting with them and I

713

00:24:07,471 --> 00:24:11,469

Asha Michelle Wilson: think TV is now my way to do that, in which

714

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Asha Michelle Wilson: I get paid.

715

00:24:12,681 --> 00:24:14,950

Marc Preston: Well, did you go to college for this, or

716

00:24:14,970 --> 00:24:15,753

Marc Preston: where did you go?

717

00:24:15,773 --> 00:24:16,135

Asha Michelle Wilson: to college.

718

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Marc Preston: Where'd you go?

719

00:24:17,259 --> 00:24:19,531

Asha Michelle Wilson: Yes, I went to Elon University in North

720

00:24:19,571 --> 00:24:22,704

Asha Michelle Wilson: Carolina liberal arts school and I studied

721

00:24:22,784 --> 00:24:24,729

Asha Michelle Wilson: a major that no longer exists there, that

722

00:24:24,769 --> 00:24:26,373

Asha Michelle Wilson: was media arts and entertainment.

723

00:24:27,442 --> 00:24:28,484

Asha Michelle Wilson: They renamed it.

724

00:24:28,544 --> 00:24:31,071

Asha Michelle Wilson: They renamed it because they realized it

725

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Asha Michelle Wilson: didn't cover enough.

726

00:24:32,941 --> 00:24:35,227

Asha Michelle Wilson: But I minored in narrative cinema because

727

00:24:35,247 --> 00:24:37,072

Asha Michelle Wilson: again it was like, oh, you can only do film.

728

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Asha Michelle Wilson: But my senior year I convinced the Dean of

729

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Asha Michelle Wilson: Communications to let me do an independent

730

00:24:43,439 --> 00:24:45,906

Asha Michelle Wilson: study In which I just read books about TV

731

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Asha Michelle Wilson: and watched TV and wrote a bunch of pilots

732

00:24:48,512 --> 00:24:50,122

Asha Michelle Wilson: and specs really cool, that's.

733

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Asha Michelle Wilson: That's like.

734

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Asha Michelle Wilson: Thank you.

735

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Marc Preston: I think a lot of people in different

736

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Marc Preston: creative careers.

737

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Marc Preston: I don't say that they know Everything that

738

00:24:57,242 --> 00:24:58,446

Marc Preston: they need to learn, but they know where to

739

00:24:58,487 --> 00:25:00,152

Marc Preston: start looking and kind of, you know, be

740

00:25:00,192 --> 00:25:01,979

Marc Preston: curious and just you know, as a

741

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Marc Preston: screenwriter, I mean, I'm assuming a few

742

00:25:03,725 --> 00:25:05,962

Marc Preston: folks are gonna listen to this who Want to

743

00:25:05,982 --> 00:25:07,930

Marc Preston: do that or are already doing it.

744

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Marc Preston: I think the last one I read I didn't

745

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Marc Preston: actually read it.

746

00:25:10,881 --> 00:25:12,445

Marc Preston: I I'm actually looking at it right now, but

747

00:25:12,646 --> 00:25:13,628

Marc Preston: I bought the book.

748

00:25:13,648 --> 00:25:14,891

Marc Preston: Then I got the audiobook because I was.

749

00:25:14,972 --> 00:25:17,169

Marc Preston: You know, I'm lazy, apparently this save

750

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Marc Preston: the cat.

751

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Marc Preston: Oh yes, what are some of your favorite

752

00:25:19,884 --> 00:25:21,167

Marc Preston: screenwriting books?

753

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Marc Preston: If you're gonna give like a top three or

754

00:25:23,392 --> 00:25:25,537

Marc Preston: something for people to dive into, you know,

755

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Marc Preston: I Would say for for movie writing.

756

00:25:30,161 --> 00:25:31,104

Asha Michelle Wilson: Save the cat is great.

757

00:25:31,144 --> 00:25:33,130

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think it's a really great baseline of

758

00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:35,849

Asha Michelle Wilson: like Knowing which tent poles you have to

759

00:25:35,869 --> 00:25:37,618

Asha Michelle Wilson: hit in a story and how to build that

760

00:25:37,678 --> 00:25:40,429

Asha Michelle Wilson: structure For a fun one.

761

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Asha Michelle Wilson: That is not necessarily how to write a

762

00:25:42,959 --> 00:25:45,508

Asha Michelle Wilson: story, but I think says a lot about TV, tv

763

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Asha Michelle Wilson: writing.

764

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Asha Michelle Wilson: Kristen Newman, I think, is her name, wrote

765

00:25:49,761 --> 00:25:51,507

Asha Michelle Wilson: what I was doing while you were breeding,

766

00:25:51,968 --> 00:25:54,015

Asha Michelle Wilson: which is about her kind of travel

767

00:25:54,055 --> 00:25:55,740

Asha Michelle Wilson: adventures while also being a TV writer,

768

00:25:56,202 --> 00:25:57,587

Asha Michelle Wilson: and I think there's a lot of behind the

769

00:25:57,647 --> 00:26:00,643

Asha Michelle Wilson: scenes of Working in this industry that she

770

00:26:01,285 --> 00:26:03,650

Asha Michelle Wilson: talks about and along with her other

771

00:26:03,930 --> 00:26:05,474

Asha Michelle Wilson: adventures that are amazing.

772

00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:09,060

Asha Michelle Wilson: And then I would say honestly this isn't a

773

00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,708

Asha Michelle Wilson: book, but I think reading as many scripts

774

00:26:12,929 --> 00:26:15,215

Asha Michelle Wilson: as you can that was really what I did in my

775

00:26:15,255 --> 00:26:17,081

Asha Michelle Wilson: independent study until still do a lot To

776

00:26:17,101 --> 00:26:20,822

Asha Michelle Wilson: this day is just getting my hands on, you

777

00:26:20,862 --> 00:26:23,232

Asha Michelle Wilson: know, my favorite TV scripts and movie

778

00:26:23,272 --> 00:26:26,724

Asha Michelle Wilson: scripts and seeing how they wrote Character

779

00:26:26,744 --> 00:26:28,990

Asha Michelle Wilson: descriptions and how they wrote dialogue,

780

00:26:29,090 --> 00:26:30,594

Asha Michelle Wilson: and it's very cool.

781

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Marc Preston: They say it's one page per minute, roughly

782

00:26:33,184 --> 00:26:35,791

Marc Preston: right, but if I maybe I think it's Quentin

783

00:26:35,811 --> 00:26:36,315

Marc Preston: Tarantino.

784

00:26:36,396 --> 00:26:37,415

Marc Preston: I read one of his screenplays.

785

00:26:37,435 --> 00:26:39,196

Marc Preston: I looked over one of his screenplays and

786

00:26:39,216 --> 00:26:42,016

Marc Preston: there is a lot of specificity in what's

787

00:26:42,037 --> 00:26:43,595

Marc Preston: supposed to be happening on the screen and

788

00:26:43,636 --> 00:26:45,001

Marc Preston: so of course that's gonna make the script

789

00:26:45,061 --> 00:26:46,399

Marc Preston: fatter, you know, because there's so much

790

00:26:46,419 --> 00:26:48,240

Marc Preston: description, but I kind of like that as an

791

00:26:48,361 --> 00:26:48,622

Marc Preston: actor.

792

00:26:48,715 --> 00:26:50,941

Marc Preston: I think that makes that kind of lets

793

00:26:51,062 --> 00:26:52,726

Marc Preston: theater of the mind kind of come into play.

794

00:26:52,835 --> 00:26:54,361

Marc Preston: Let you know what's happening before you

795

00:26:54,401 --> 00:26:55,103

Marc Preston: even get on set.

796

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Marc Preston: I know I'm kind of in the weeds on this,

797

00:26:58,855 --> 00:27:00,376

Marc Preston: but I'm kind of curious when you write, do

798

00:27:00,496 --> 00:27:03,144

Marc Preston: you put little things that are like set

799

00:27:03,184 --> 00:27:04,960

Marc Preston: dressing or the way the light is or

800

00:27:05,041 --> 00:27:07,722

Marc Preston: something that there may be characters,

801

00:27:07,802 --> 00:27:08,424

Marc Preston: mannerisms.

802

00:27:08,595 --> 00:27:09,936

Marc Preston: Do you like to put that in there or do you

803

00:27:09,956 --> 00:27:11,883

Marc Preston: like to focus mostly just on dialogue?

804

00:27:13,315 --> 00:27:15,016

Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't tend to do too much of it because I

805

00:27:15,056 --> 00:27:17,416

Asha Michelle Wilson: feel like that can often step on the way

806

00:27:17,456 --> 00:27:19,216

Asha Michelle Wilson: the director might wanna do something or

807

00:27:19,236 --> 00:27:20,942

Asha Michelle Wilson: the way the actor might wanna do something.

808

00:27:21,255 --> 00:27:23,276

Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, I also work in animation and I've

809

00:27:23,296 --> 00:27:25,138

Asha Michelle Wilson: written on Archer and in that, you know, I

810

00:27:25,178 --> 00:27:27,316

Asha Michelle Wilson: really have to put in, you know, certain

811

00:27:27,396 --> 00:27:29,536

Asha Michelle Wilson: fight stuff and things like that, because

812

00:27:29,556 --> 00:27:30,600

Asha Michelle Wilson: the animators need that.

813

00:27:31,215 --> 00:27:32,259

Asha Michelle Wilson: So you have to kind of say, you know, like

814

00:27:32,279 --> 00:27:34,060

Asha Michelle Wilson: this character clothesline's another

815

00:27:34,140 --> 00:27:35,860

Asha Michelle Wilson: character like a wrestler kind of thing.

816

00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:39,624

Asha Michelle Wilson: But in live action stuff I do it a lot less

817

00:27:39,915 --> 00:27:42,063

Asha Michelle Wilson: unless I feel like it's vital for

818

00:27:42,163 --> 00:27:43,900

Asha Michelle Wilson: understanding what's happening in the scene.

819

00:27:44,335 --> 00:27:46,483

Asha Michelle Wilson: So in terms of like the lighting kind of

820

00:27:46,543 --> 00:27:48,301

Asha Michelle Wilson: thing, there was something I was writing

821

00:27:48,341 --> 00:27:50,902

Asha Michelle Wilson: recently where a character you think

822

00:27:50,922 --> 00:27:52,878

Asha Michelle Wilson: they're gonna get attacked in a shower and

823

00:27:53,019 --> 00:27:55,215

Asha Michelle Wilson: lighting really had to be like psycho in

824

00:27:55,235 --> 00:27:57,439

Asha Michelle Wilson: the shower scene, and so I write that in

825

00:27:57,499 --> 00:27:59,758

Asha Michelle Wilson: because it does speak to how you're kind of

826

00:27:59,819 --> 00:28:01,404

Asha Michelle Wilson: visualizing it as you're reading it.

827

00:28:01,815 --> 00:28:04,775

Asha Michelle Wilson: But most of the time I stay away from it so

828

00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:06,936

Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't step on the other people I will be

829

00:28:06,956 --> 00:28:08,542

Asha Michelle Wilson: collaborating with with the script.

830

00:28:08,955 --> 00:28:10,641

Marc Preston: The writing is kind of well.

831

00:28:10,661 --> 00:28:11,564

Marc Preston: It's kind of two rails.

832

00:28:11,936 --> 00:28:13,201

Marc Preston: One is you come up with this whole idea

833

00:28:13,221 --> 00:28:14,858

Marc Preston: that's yours and you've come up with it and

834

00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,397

Marc Preston: try to get you know, bought, or you come

835

00:28:17,437 --> 00:28:19,418

Marc Preston: into an existing production and you are one

836

00:28:19,538 --> 00:28:20,181

Marc Preston: of the writers.

837

00:28:20,455 --> 00:28:22,102

Marc Preston: Do you have a preference on one or the

838

00:28:22,182 --> 00:28:22,323

Marc Preston: other?

839

00:28:22,395 --> 00:28:24,000

Marc Preston: Do you like to come into something that's

840

00:28:24,121 --> 00:28:28,122

Marc Preston: already in flow and to kind of write to the

841

00:28:28,162 --> 00:28:30,396

Marc Preston: tone of what's already going on, or do you

842

00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:31,675

Marc Preston: like to kind of create your own thing and

843

00:28:31,695 --> 00:28:33,081

Marc Preston: let it, you know, focus on that.

844

00:28:34,975 --> 00:28:39,486

Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, on paper they would seem kind of

845

00:28:40,757 --> 00:28:41,199

Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't know.

846

00:28:41,259 --> 00:28:47,304

Asha Michelle Wilson: Actually, I think if I'm working on someone

847

00:28:47,345 --> 00:28:50,643

Asha Michelle Wilson: else's show, if it's a story or a type of

848

00:28:50,683 --> 00:28:53,096

Asha Michelle Wilson: comedy that I can really connect to, that's

849

00:28:53,297 --> 00:28:54,561

Asha Michelle Wilson: the most important thing to me.

850

00:28:55,215 --> 00:28:56,896

Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know, when it's your story, there

851

00:28:56,936 --> 00:28:58,683

Asha Michelle Wilson: is a certain passion that you have for it

852

00:28:58,815 --> 00:29:00,661

Asha Michelle Wilson: that is just can make it a little bit more

853

00:29:00,721 --> 00:29:01,223

Asha Michelle Wilson: exciting.

854

00:29:02,055 --> 00:29:05,916

Asha Michelle Wilson: So on paper I would prefer, you know, kind

855

00:29:05,976 --> 00:29:08,925

Asha Michelle Wilson: of making my own story come through.

856

00:29:09,155 --> 00:29:11,183

Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know it can be a lot harder.

857

00:29:11,275 --> 00:29:12,259

Asha Michelle Wilson: There's a lot more pressure.

858

00:29:12,339 --> 00:29:13,062

Asha Michelle Wilson: The stakes are on you.

859

00:29:13,135 --> 00:29:14,516

Asha Michelle Wilson: When you're in someone else's room it's

860

00:29:14,556 --> 00:29:16,182

Asha Michelle Wilson: like going to someone else's party.

861

00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:18,516

Asha Michelle Wilson: You're not worried if the dip is full or if

862

00:29:18,556 --> 00:29:20,796

Asha Michelle Wilson: you know someone clogs the bathroom or if

863

00:29:20,816 --> 00:29:23,400

Asha Michelle Wilson: there's not guests there, but if it's your

864

00:29:23,460 --> 00:29:26,142

Asha Michelle Wilson: party, it sounds like some very specific

865

00:29:26,475 --> 00:29:30,522

Asha Michelle Wilson: and interesting party notes, like there's a

866

00:29:30,562 --> 00:29:31,525

Asha Michelle Wilson: little thought that went into this.

867

00:29:31,575 --> 00:29:32,580

Marc Preston: Maybe that's the writer in UJ.

868

00:29:32,775 --> 00:29:33,698

Marc Preston: You don't think just party.

869

00:29:33,718 --> 00:29:34,520

Marc Preston: Okay, what's going on?

870

00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,403

Marc Preston: How full is the dip?

871

00:29:35,704 --> 00:29:38,282

Marc Preston: Specifics, somebody's having anxiety attack

872

00:29:38,375 --> 00:29:39,299

Marc Preston: because there's no plunger.

873

00:29:39,540 --> 00:29:40,216

Marc Preston: You know that's.

874

00:29:40,376 --> 00:29:50,538

Marc Preston: Um, let's say you are writing on a show and

875

00:29:50,558 --> 00:29:54,423

Marc Preston: it is a very well established celebrity, an

876

00:29:54,524 --> 00:29:55,225

Marc Preston: actor, performer.

877

00:29:55,870 --> 00:29:56,697

Marc Preston: It doesn't make it a little bit easier

878

00:29:56,717 --> 00:29:57,927

Marc Preston: because you know, like, if you're writing

879

00:29:57,948 --> 00:29:59,816

Marc Preston: for Seth Rogan or for somebody that's

880

00:29:59,916 --> 00:30:02,104

Marc Preston: really you know their tone.

881

00:30:02,124 --> 00:30:04,472

Marc Preston: Does it make it easier or harder for you to

882

00:30:04,512 --> 00:30:06,316

Marc Preston: kind of get you know down the middle and

883

00:30:06,357 --> 00:30:07,038

Marc Preston: hit the crosshairs?

884

00:30:08,870 --> 00:30:13,617

Asha Michelle Wilson: I just had this come up with a very, very

885

00:30:13,938 --> 00:30:19,612

Asha Michelle Wilson: well-known, award-winning actress, and I

886

00:30:19,732 --> 00:30:23,702

Asha Michelle Wilson: think, on one hand, let's say, if it's

887

00:30:23,762 --> 00:30:26,890

Asha Michelle Wilson: something that like, if it's a character

888

00:30:26,910 --> 00:30:28,638

Asha Michelle Wilson: that you know well, if it's not a new

889

00:30:28,679 --> 00:30:30,186

Asha Michelle Wilson: character this actress is playing, let's

890

00:30:30,226 --> 00:30:31,915

Asha Michelle Wilson: say it can make it a little easier because

891

00:30:31,935 --> 00:30:33,865

Asha Michelle Wilson: you know the baseline of it, you know the

892

00:30:33,905 --> 00:30:35,894

Asha Michelle Wilson: certain mannerisms that this character has.

893

00:30:38,253 --> 00:30:40,397

Asha Michelle Wilson: But if it's the specific actor, that can be

894

00:30:40,417 --> 00:30:43,523

Asha Michelle Wilson: a little nerve-wracking because you know

895

00:30:43,863 --> 00:30:45,813

Asha Michelle Wilson: you want it to be something that they can

896

00:30:45,873 --> 00:30:46,996

Asha Michelle Wilson: connect to and understand.

897

00:30:47,116 --> 00:30:52,475

Asha Michelle Wilson: And you know, like, yeah, I just saw the

898

00:30:52,616 --> 00:30:55,343

Asha Michelle Wilson: unbearable weight of massive talent, the

899

00:30:55,424 --> 00:30:58,132

Asha Michelle Wilson: Nicholas Cage movie and I went to a.

900

00:30:58,573 --> 00:30:59,858

Asha Michelle Wilson: It was great, I loved it.

901

00:31:00,351 --> 00:31:02,941

Asha Michelle Wilson: I went to a Q the event it was a WGA event

902

00:31:02,982 --> 00:31:04,849

Asha Michelle Wilson: and they had a Q&A with the director and

903

00:31:04,889 --> 00:31:07,238

Asha Michelle Wilson: writers afterwards and they were talking

904

00:31:07,299 --> 00:31:09,488

Asha Michelle Wilson: about having written this really as a love

905

00:31:09,548 --> 00:31:11,737

Asha Michelle Wilson: letter to Nick Cage, but also sending it to

906

00:31:11,797 --> 00:31:13,925

Asha Michelle Wilson: him and kind of having that worry of like

907

00:31:14,207 --> 00:31:15,813

Asha Michelle Wilson: ooh, I hope he doesn't think we're making

908

00:31:15,933 --> 00:31:16,556

Asha Michelle Wilson: fun of him.

909

00:31:17,652 --> 00:31:19,220

Asha Michelle Wilson: And I related to that because when you're

910

00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,970

Asha Michelle Wilson: writing something specifically for an actor,

911

00:31:21,973 --> 00:31:23,537

Asha Michelle Wilson: there's a fine line you have to walk.

912

00:31:24,950 --> 00:31:26,895

Asha Michelle Wilson: And so I do like it, though, because I

913

00:31:26,955 --> 00:31:29,441

Asha Michelle Wilson: think it can get again make that character

914

00:31:29,481 --> 00:31:32,837

Asha Michelle Wilson: very specific to the person, but there is

915

00:31:32,877 --> 00:31:34,441

Asha Michelle Wilson: some pressure to it as well.

916

00:31:34,750 --> 00:31:36,959

Marc Preston: Some people may allude to some of the

917

00:31:37,019 --> 00:31:39,329

Marc Preston: projects he's in, like, oh dear lord, you

918

00:31:39,349 --> 00:31:41,034

Marc Preston: give him a great script, great movie, he

919

00:31:41,094 --> 00:31:42,519

Marc Preston: knocks it out of the park every time.

920

00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,758

Marc Preston: You know, I think there's something like.

921

00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:47,925

Marc Preston: I'm in New Orleans and somebody once told

922

00:31:47,965 --> 00:31:50,175

Marc Preston: me that you know, because all the

923

00:31:50,215 --> 00:31:52,025

Marc Preston: cemeteries here are above ground like

924

00:31:52,066 --> 00:31:53,553

Marc Preston: crypts, you know, they're not like, they

925

00:31:53,674 --> 00:31:54,417

Marc Preston: don't weird.

926

00:31:54,490 --> 00:31:55,834

Marc Preston: I didn't think I'd discuss cemeteries on

927

00:31:55,854 --> 00:31:56,936

Marc Preston: this show ever, but here we go.

928

00:31:59,030 --> 00:32:00,514

Marc Preston: But he apparently the sea level.

929

00:32:00,534 --> 00:32:02,219

Marc Preston: You have to bury people above ground.

930

00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,353

Marc Preston: You know, if he's listening, google New

931

00:32:04,393 --> 00:32:05,757

Marc Preston: Orleans Cemetery, you'll see.

932

00:32:05,777 --> 00:32:06,359

Marc Preston: I'm not that weird.

933

00:32:07,110 --> 00:32:07,872

Marc Preston: But apparently his is.

934

00:32:07,912 --> 00:32:08,995

Marc Preston: He created one that was.

935

00:32:09,176 --> 00:32:10,439

Marc Preston: Somebody said it was a pyramid.

936

00:32:11,150 --> 00:32:12,454

Marc Preston: So whenever he dies he's like I'm like.

937

00:32:12,816 --> 00:32:14,110

Marc Preston: Some people may think what a weirdo I'm

938

00:32:14,130 --> 00:32:14,290

Marc Preston: like.

939

00:32:14,451 --> 00:32:14,851

Marc Preston: You know what?

940

00:32:15,012 --> 00:32:17,476

Marc Preston: Everything he does is just his own Nicholas

941

00:32:17,497 --> 00:32:20,542

Marc Preston: Cage creative thing you know, I'm like you,

942

00:32:20,562 --> 00:32:21,204

Marc Preston: gotta love that.

943

00:32:21,710 --> 00:32:23,034

Asha Michelle Wilson: Something the director said.

944

00:32:23,535 --> 00:32:24,618

Asha Michelle Wilson: Something the director said that I really

945

00:32:24,698 --> 00:32:27,516

Asha Michelle Wilson: liked was that they it had to be specific

946

00:32:27,556 --> 00:32:29,133

Asha Michelle Wilson: to Nick Cage, it was written for him and

947

00:32:29,173 --> 00:32:32,252

Asha Michelle Wilson: thank God he said yes, because he does have

948

00:32:32,292 --> 00:32:36,740

Asha Michelle Wilson: this wild array of film that he's done, but

949

00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,732

Asha Michelle Wilson: he also has such like universal public love

950

00:32:39,812 --> 00:32:43,100

Asha Michelle Wilson: and support and like memeification that you

951

00:32:43,140 --> 00:32:44,831

Asha Michelle Wilson: don't see in a lot of actors, and so I'm

952

00:32:44,871 --> 00:32:46,917

Asha Michelle Wilson: like, hey, I love that he has a crypt.

953

00:32:47,018 --> 00:32:47,720

Asha Michelle Wilson: That's amazing.

954

00:32:48,451 --> 00:32:51,179

Marc Preston: Now I see comedy showing up a few times.

955

00:32:52,030 --> 00:32:52,974

Marc Preston: You've mentioned you mentioned Saturday

956

00:32:52,994 --> 00:32:53,476

Marc Preston: Night Live.

957

00:32:53,650 --> 00:32:55,136

Marc Preston: I had some of the programs you've worked on.

958

00:32:55,550 --> 00:32:56,856

Marc Preston: Do you have a preference on genre?

959

00:32:57,210 --> 00:32:58,114

Marc Preston: Would you like to work on?

960

00:32:59,011 --> 00:33:02,421

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I always gravitate towards comedy.

961

00:33:02,710 --> 00:33:04,436

Asha Michelle Wilson: Usually the ideas I came up with I come up

962

00:33:04,476 --> 00:33:05,159

Asha Michelle Wilson: with I want to have.

963

00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:07,024

Asha Michelle Wilson: So if I come up with like a sci-fi idea,

964

00:33:07,064 --> 00:33:08,392

Asha Michelle Wilson: it's a sci-fi comedy, if it's fantasy,

965

00:33:08,432 --> 00:33:08,974

Asha Michelle Wilson: fantasy comedy.

966

00:33:10,150 --> 00:33:12,682

Asha Michelle Wilson: But I think, you know, after leaving horror

967

00:33:12,702 --> 00:33:14,370

Asha Michelle Wilson: story, I think I had a little bit of time

968

00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:15,735

Asha Michelle Wilson: where I was like I just want to do comedy

969

00:33:15,775 --> 00:33:16,337

Asha Michelle Wilson: and nothing else.

970

00:33:16,910 --> 00:33:18,573

Asha Michelle Wilson: But now I'm sort of coming back around to

971

00:33:18,614 --> 00:33:22,021

Asha Michelle Wilson: more genre, heavy genres in terms of like

972

00:33:22,302 --> 00:33:25,116

Asha Michelle Wilson: sci-fi, little bit of horror, fantasy sort

973

00:33:25,156 --> 00:33:28,587

Asha Michelle Wilson: of thing, just because I think there's a

974

00:33:28,667 --> 00:33:30,534

Asha Michelle Wilson: lot to explore in that world, especially

975

00:33:30,554 --> 00:33:31,377

Asha Michelle Wilson: when it comes to comedy.

976

00:33:31,490 --> 00:33:32,836

Asha Michelle Wilson: Again, you know you have Blazing Saddles

977

00:33:32,950 --> 00:33:35,438

Asha Michelle Wilson: that was a Western comedy and Spaceballs,

978

00:33:35,478 --> 00:33:37,274

Asha Michelle Wilson: space Comedy, and so I think I really love

979

00:33:37,434 --> 00:33:41,075

Asha Michelle Wilson: blending those and I also I really love a

980

00:33:41,175 --> 00:33:41,697

Asha Michelle Wilson: romance.

981

00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:44,557

Asha Michelle Wilson: That's just my ooey-gooey heart.

982

00:33:45,851 --> 00:33:48,715

Asha Michelle Wilson: I am a romantic optimist and so I like a

983

00:33:48,755 --> 00:33:49,439

Asha Michelle Wilson: happy ending.

984

00:33:50,553 --> 00:33:52,098

Asha Michelle Wilson: I like a happy ending, kiss.

985

00:33:52,750 --> 00:33:55,035

Asha Michelle Wilson: So yeah, I think those are the ones I'm

986

00:33:55,115 --> 00:33:57,320

Asha Michelle Wilson: gravitating towards most right now, which

987

00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:58,362

Asha Michelle Wilson: is all of them, I guess.

988

00:33:59,592 --> 00:34:01,380

Marc Preston: I mean, I guess it's a great vocation for

989

00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,308

Marc Preston: someone who's got, who's a little lady HD.

990

00:34:03,348 --> 00:34:04,413

Marc Preston: Not saying that, I mean, is the

991

00:34:04,453 --> 00:34:06,351

Marc Preston: entertainment business after all, but the

992

00:34:06,431 --> 00:34:08,621

Marc Preston: whole idea that you can go from genre to

993

00:34:08,662 --> 00:34:09,606

Marc Preston: genre, you can go to the.

994

00:34:10,048 --> 00:34:11,713

Marc Preston: If you get kind of like kind of not tired,

995

00:34:11,753 --> 00:34:13,238

Marc Preston: but you're kind of burnt on one thing,

996

00:34:13,278 --> 00:34:15,533

Marc Preston: maybe you're like oh, man I could do this

997

00:34:15,594 --> 00:34:16,999

Marc Preston: thing, though, and now you're reinspired.

998

00:34:17,110 --> 00:34:18,937

Marc Preston: So you know you're not relegated to just

999

00:34:19,037 --> 00:34:19,378

Marc Preston: one thing.

00:34:19,690 --> 00:34:21,875

Marc Preston: Now, as far as shows go like what's on

00:34:21,935 --> 00:34:24,862

Marc Preston: right now that's inspiring you or that you

00:34:24,882 --> 00:34:26,393

Marc Preston: just hey, it could be just something you

00:34:26,413 --> 00:34:27,997

Marc Preston: like watching, because you can just kind of

00:34:28,017 --> 00:34:29,701

Marc Preston: chill out and not even think, and you know,

00:34:29,721 --> 00:34:30,402

Marc Preston: what do you like watching?

00:34:30,510 --> 00:34:33,017

Marc Preston: Maybe the writers for the shows you think

00:34:33,057 --> 00:34:33,860

Marc Preston: are just excellent.

00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,005

Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, I know everyone always talks

00:34:36,045 --> 00:34:37,909

Asha Michelle Wilson: about this show, but I think it's worthy of

00:34:37,970 --> 00:34:38,030

Asha Michelle Wilson: it.

00:34:38,090 --> 00:34:41,227

Asha Michelle Wilson: As Abad Elementary, I think I have a few

00:34:41,268 --> 00:34:42,452

Asha Michelle Wilson: mutual friends with Quinta.

00:34:42,532 --> 00:34:44,198

Asha Michelle Wilson: I don't really know her personally but I

00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,762

Asha Michelle Wilson: think, having seen her at parties and

00:34:45,782 --> 00:34:49,008

Asha Michelle Wilson: events and stuff, I'm just really I'm just

00:34:49,509 --> 00:34:52,561

Asha Michelle Wilson: in awe of how she was able to make such a

00:34:52,761 --> 00:34:57,753

Asha Michelle Wilson: fun, smart show that just kind of crossed

00:34:58,114 --> 00:35:00,158

Asha Michelle Wilson: well just across the board.

00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:01,922

Asha Michelle Wilson: Everybody loves it and I think that's just

00:35:02,403 --> 00:35:05,110

Asha Michelle Wilson: incredible and it's so great and it is

00:35:05,431 --> 00:35:06,573

Asha Michelle Wilson: again a heartwarming watch.

00:35:07,961 --> 00:35:10,907

Asha Michelle Wilson: I also I really loved the Gilded Age.

00:35:12,570 --> 00:35:15,776

Asha Michelle Wilson: I just enjoyed watching that story and the

00:35:15,796 --> 00:35:19,710

Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of escapism of it was fun and I'm

00:35:19,730 --> 00:35:20,472

Asha Michelle Wilson: trying to think if there's any.

00:35:20,733 --> 00:35:22,859

Asha Michelle Wilson: And I'm a sucker for adult animation.

00:35:22,879 --> 00:35:24,303

Asha Michelle Wilson: I love a Bob's Burgers.

00:35:25,025 --> 00:35:26,850

Asha Michelle Wilson: I loved Archery before I wrote on it and

00:35:26,890 --> 00:35:27,512

Asha Michelle Wilson: still love it.

00:35:27,781 --> 00:35:29,189

Marc Preston: Really Well, that's got to be kind of cool

00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:30,759

Marc Preston: to like something and then you show up in

00:35:30,779 --> 00:35:31,845

Marc Preston: the room and like, oh, I'm one of the

00:35:31,905 --> 00:35:32,650

Marc Preston: people doing it.

00:35:32,911 --> 00:35:34,138

Marc Preston: I remember I used to watch Family Guy.

00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:34,701

Marc Preston: Back in the day.

00:35:34,741 --> 00:35:36,347

Marc Preston: My kids used to call it Daddy Cartoon.

00:35:37,310 --> 00:35:38,233

Marc Preston: Now it's like.

00:35:38,695 --> 00:35:40,902

Marc Preston: Now they love watching it and of course, as

00:35:40,922 --> 00:35:43,130

Marc Preston: teenage older teenagers they get far much

00:35:43,191 --> 00:35:43,773

Marc Preston: more of the humor.

00:35:44,816 --> 00:35:46,382

Marc Preston: But you know, you mentioned something about

00:35:46,422 --> 00:35:47,486

Marc Preston: sci-fi or fantasy.

00:35:47,547 --> 00:35:50,377

Marc Preston: Have you caught Outer Range on?

00:35:50,458 --> 00:35:52,285

Marc Preston: I think it's on Amazon Prime, josh Brolin.

00:35:52,767 --> 00:35:53,349

Asha Michelle Wilson: I haven't.

00:35:53,851 --> 00:35:55,196

Marc Preston: It's one of those shows like you're

00:35:55,216 --> 00:35:56,401

Marc Preston: watching going okay, all right, they're

00:35:56,421 --> 00:35:57,023

Marc Preston: going a little bit here.

00:35:57,264 --> 00:35:59,050

Marc Preston: No, like you're like holy shit, okay.

00:35:59,090 --> 00:36:02,582

Marc Preston: This is a thing I always like being taken

00:36:02,642 --> 00:36:04,728

Marc Preston: out, caught off guard, like I didn't expect

00:36:04,748 --> 00:36:05,230

Marc Preston: something.

00:36:05,290 --> 00:36:07,241

Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh, I fully understand that One of the

00:36:07,301 --> 00:36:08,825

Asha Michelle Wilson: shows that was actually probably my

00:36:08,886 --> 00:36:10,851

Asha Michelle Wilson: favorite show of this year so far was

00:36:10,951 --> 00:36:11,292

Asha Michelle Wilson: Reacher.

00:36:12,341 --> 00:36:13,787

Announcer: I loved Reacher that was great and I think

00:36:13,807 --> 00:36:15,153

Announcer: it really surprised me.

00:36:15,695 --> 00:36:18,003

Asha Michelle Wilson: I loved it and I think I really was along

00:36:18,043 --> 00:36:18,564

Asha Michelle Wilson: for the ride.

00:36:18,605 --> 00:36:20,329

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was really caught off guard by a lot of

00:36:20,349 --> 00:36:22,386

Asha Michelle Wilson: the elements of it and I just I think about

00:36:22,406 --> 00:36:22,849

Asha Michelle Wilson: that show a lot.

00:36:22,869 --> 00:36:23,754

Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm surprised I didn't come in my head

00:36:23,775 --> 00:36:23,915

Asha Michelle Wilson: first.

00:36:23,935 --> 00:36:24,700

Asha Michelle Wilson: That is so funny.

00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,364

Marc Preston: You said that because I saw that and I was

00:36:26,384 --> 00:36:27,848

Marc Preston: like there's not.

00:36:27,909 --> 00:36:29,361

Marc Preston: It's not just the way it's written, but

00:36:29,381 --> 00:36:31,090

Marc Preston: there's kind of a rhythm and a cadence to

00:36:31,130 --> 00:36:32,116

Marc Preston: how the lines are delivered.

00:36:32,156 --> 00:36:33,763

Marc Preston: There's a overall seemed like an overall

00:36:33,804 --> 00:36:35,190

Marc Preston: concept about the way the show is done.

00:36:35,933 --> 00:36:37,520

Marc Preston: I like going okay, I don't see anything

00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:38,613

Marc Preston: else like this on TV.

00:36:38,696 --> 00:36:40,702

Marc Preston: I like that, you know, and with so much out

00:36:40,785 --> 00:36:43,186

Marc Preston: there, all the streamers and everything, it

00:36:43,207 --> 00:36:44,373

Marc Preston: seems like everything that could be out

00:36:44,393 --> 00:36:44,937

Marc Preston: there is out there.

00:36:44,977 --> 00:36:46,622

Marc Preston: So it's nice to be surprised, Like oh, I

00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:47,404

Marc Preston: didn't see this coming.

00:36:47,424 --> 00:36:49,549

Marc Preston: Yeah, now the now.

00:36:49,569 --> 00:36:50,110

Marc Preston: I did see you got.

00:36:50,551 --> 00:36:51,373

Marc Preston: You got BET.

00:36:52,805 --> 00:36:54,391

Marc Preston: You're on the list of six black women show

00:36:54,411 --> 00:36:56,217

Marc Preston: runners who inspired TV's diverse

00:36:56,418 --> 00:36:56,799

Marc Preston: renaissance.

00:36:56,819 --> 00:37:00,633

Marc Preston: That's like kind of a cool recognition Do

00:37:00,653 --> 00:37:01,957

Marc Preston: you feel yeah, no pressure yeah.

00:37:02,158 --> 00:37:02,720

Marc Preston: That was just about.

00:37:02,921 --> 00:37:04,688

Marc Preston: That was going to be the follow up

00:37:05,311 --> 00:37:06,958

Marc Preston: Hollywood being Hollywood, the industry

00:37:06,978 --> 00:37:07,480

Marc Preston: being what it is.

00:37:07,741 --> 00:37:09,208

Marc Preston: Once you start getting some attention, is

00:37:09,248 --> 00:37:09,469

Marc Preston: there?

00:37:09,570 --> 00:37:11,559

Marc Preston: Is there kind of like now people are paying

00:37:11,579 --> 00:37:12,482

Marc Preston: attention, this is game day.

00:37:12,522 --> 00:37:13,284

Marc Preston: I got to perform.

00:37:13,445 --> 00:37:13,946

Marc Preston: How does that?

00:37:14,126 --> 00:37:15,811

Marc Preston: How does that affect you to to now be

00:37:16,220 --> 00:37:18,207

Marc Preston: coming on folks, coming on folks radars?

00:37:19,572 --> 00:37:22,000

Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, I think you know, in a lot of ways it

00:37:22,020 --> 00:37:23,404

Asha Michelle Wilson: just makes me think about the difference

00:37:23,444 --> 00:37:25,951

Asha Michelle Wilson: between public success and private success.

00:37:26,460 --> 00:37:29,771

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think during lockdown I was honestly

00:37:29,871 --> 00:37:31,636

Asha Michelle Wilson: working more than I ever had.

00:37:31,696 --> 00:37:33,603

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was pitching almost every day and I was

00:37:33,924 --> 00:37:36,252

Asha Michelle Wilson: in general meetings and I was writing hours

00:37:36,272 --> 00:37:36,914

Asha Michelle Wilson: and hours I would.

00:37:37,557 --> 00:37:41,085

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was in London and I was working from 10am

00:37:41,506 --> 00:37:42,929

Asha Michelle Wilson: until 5pm.

00:37:42,989 --> 00:37:44,632

Asha Michelle Wilson: When I got into a Zoom writer's room from

00:37:44,692 --> 00:37:47,023

Asha Michelle Wilson: 5pm until midnight and then I'd write till

00:37:47,083 --> 00:37:49,188

Asha Michelle Wilson: 3am and then sleep and then wake up and do

00:37:49,208 --> 00:37:51,662

Asha Michelle Wilson: it again and nobody knew about anything I

00:37:51,723 --> 00:37:52,345

Asha Michelle Wilson: was working on.

00:37:52,445 --> 00:37:54,853

Asha Michelle Wilson: It was all just like my private kind of

00:37:54,973 --> 00:37:55,454

Asha Michelle Wilson: success.

00:37:56,638 --> 00:37:58,884

Asha Michelle Wilson: And then fast forward to now when it's

00:37:58,924 --> 00:38:00,889

Asha Michelle Wilson: amazing to be on lists and these articles

00:38:00,949 --> 00:38:03,302

Asha Michelle Wilson: coming out and having more eyes on me in

00:38:03,322 --> 00:38:03,904

Asha Michelle Wilson: that way.

00:38:04,826 --> 00:38:07,815

Asha Michelle Wilson: But I think, you know, in a weird way it's

00:38:07,975 --> 00:38:10,203

Asha Michelle Wilson: not necessarily as fulfilling as the kind

00:38:10,243 --> 00:38:11,891

Asha Michelle Wilson: of private success that you get from just

00:38:11,932 --> 00:38:13,359

Asha Michelle Wilson: being enjoying the stuff that you're

00:38:13,379 --> 00:38:13,721

Asha Michelle Wilson: working on.

00:38:13,761 --> 00:38:16,409

Asha Michelle Wilson: So I think for me I just try to focus on

00:38:16,449 --> 00:38:19,800

Asha Michelle Wilson: like I'm so lucky to get to do this, this

00:38:19,820 --> 00:38:21,323

Asha Michelle Wilson: thing I've been dreaming of doing since I

00:38:21,363 --> 00:38:26,192

Asha Michelle Wilson: was six and you know I don't usually.

00:38:26,433 --> 00:38:28,244

Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm sure there's like one day a month where

00:38:28,264 --> 00:38:30,655

Asha Michelle Wilson: I have a lot of anxiety about it, but most

00:38:30,715 --> 00:38:31,981

Asha Michelle Wilson: of the time, you know, it's kind of the

00:38:32,021 --> 00:38:32,221

Asha Michelle Wilson: like.

00:38:32,582 --> 00:38:35,551

Asha Michelle Wilson: I get to work on a show that once I dressed

00:38:35,592 --> 00:38:38,400

Asha Michelle Wilson: as a character on Halloween as like I get

00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,970

Asha Michelle Wilson: you know like things like that that are

00:38:41,031 --> 00:38:42,637

Asha Michelle Wilson: just really cool and exciting, and I think

00:38:42,657 --> 00:38:45,224

Asha Michelle Wilson: that helps keep everything leveled.

00:38:45,425 --> 00:38:46,508

Marc Preston: Now, do you have any siblings?

00:38:46,848 --> 00:38:49,641

Asha Michelle Wilson: I have half siblings on my dad's side quite

00:38:49,661 --> 00:38:52,390

Asha Michelle Wilson: a few, but I'm my mom's only kid.

00:38:52,530 --> 00:38:55,178

Asha Michelle Wilson: But actually last summer I flew out my

00:38:55,399 --> 00:38:56,222

Asha Michelle Wilson: oldest half sister.

00:38:56,322 --> 00:38:57,445

Asha Michelle Wilson: She's 19 now.

00:38:57,465 --> 00:39:00,735

Asha Michelle Wilson: She was 18 at the time and I flew her out

00:39:00,755 --> 00:39:02,842

Asha Michelle Wilson: to LA and that was really exciting to kind

00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:04,631

Asha Michelle Wilson: of like see LA through her eyes.

00:39:04,732 --> 00:39:05,877

Asha Michelle Wilson: She, you know, wanted to see the Hollywood

00:39:05,897 --> 00:39:07,483

Asha Michelle Wilson: Walk of Fame and all of that.

00:39:07,563 --> 00:39:09,308

Asha Michelle Wilson: But none of them work in entertainment, so

00:39:09,348 --> 00:39:11,863

Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm kind of the only one that's in this.

00:39:12,104 --> 00:39:13,330

Marc Preston: Yeah, whenever I go to LA, to me it's

00:39:13,370 --> 00:39:14,717

Marc Preston: always an eating expedition.

00:39:14,777 --> 00:39:15,943

Marc Preston: You know it's always like in and out.

00:39:16,545 --> 00:39:16,847

Marc Preston: I try to.

00:39:16,867 --> 00:39:18,674

Marc Preston: You know I was a big fan of Anthony

00:39:18,714 --> 00:39:20,362

Marc Preston: Bourdain and his thing was always when he

00:39:20,382 --> 00:39:22,350

Marc Preston: gets out, when he lands at LAX, he always

00:39:22,370 --> 00:39:23,154

Marc Preston: goes in and out burger.

00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:24,961

Marc Preston: I'm like that became my thing.

00:39:25,041 --> 00:39:26,404

Marc Preston: I always do that now because of him.

00:39:26,444 --> 00:39:28,790

Marc Preston: It's my like peng homage in a greasy way.

00:39:28,910 --> 00:39:29,993

Marc Preston: Yeah, I love that.

00:39:30,341 --> 00:39:32,427

Marc Preston: But I'm always curious because folks who do

00:39:32,467 --> 00:39:36,699

Marc Preston: this my intrigue is okay a lot of people

00:39:36,759 --> 00:39:38,367

Marc Preston: who do it are either only children or maybe

00:39:38,387 --> 00:39:40,277

Marc Preston: they have older siblings, but they're kind

00:39:40,297 --> 00:39:42,404

Marc Preston: of in their own head a lot, for whatever

00:39:42,464 --> 00:39:42,845

Marc Preston: reason.

00:39:42,925 --> 00:39:44,208

Marc Preston: You know, like my generation.

00:39:45,290 --> 00:39:47,783

Marc Preston: You know I was speaking with LaMonica

00:39:47,823 --> 00:39:49,532

Marc Preston: Garrett recently and we're talking about

00:39:49,553 --> 00:39:50,960

Marc Preston: how you know your latchkey kids back in the

00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:51,321

Marc Preston: day.

00:39:51,361 --> 00:39:52,324

Marc Preston: You're kind of left alone.

00:39:52,344 --> 00:39:53,387

Marc Preston: You're in your own head doing your own

00:39:53,427 --> 00:39:56,744

Marc Preston: thing where you kind of as a kid creative

00:39:56,764 --> 00:39:57,887

Marc Preston: like you need your own creative.

00:39:57,947 --> 00:40:00,333

Marc Preston: Like you time or are you very gregarious?

00:40:01,401 --> 00:40:03,368

Asha Michelle Wilson: I also want to say you have a Bourdain like

00:40:03,448 --> 00:40:06,859

Asha Michelle Wilson: voice, which is I'm a huge fan of his, so

00:40:06,879 --> 00:40:07,561

Asha Michelle Wilson: that's a big comment.

00:40:07,581 --> 00:40:08,707

Marc Preston: He's my spirit animal.

00:40:08,747 --> 00:40:09,491

Marc Preston: I appreciate that.

00:40:09,692 --> 00:40:11,219

Marc Preston: Oh great, I'm going to carry that around

00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:11,941

Marc Preston: the rest of the day.

00:40:12,282 --> 00:40:14,026

Asha Michelle Wilson: Good, I'm glad you should.

00:40:14,046 --> 00:40:19,217

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think I was also a latchkey kid and, but

00:40:19,418 --> 00:40:21,204

Asha Michelle Wilson: I I was an outgoing kid.

00:40:21,304 --> 00:40:22,730

Asha Michelle Wilson: I moved around a lot growing up.

00:40:22,831 --> 00:40:24,559

Asha Michelle Wilson: I didn't go to a school for more than two

00:40:24,639 --> 00:40:27,608

Asha Michelle Wilson: years until high school, so I was kind of

00:40:27,909 --> 00:40:28,491

Asha Michelle Wilson: all over the place.

00:40:28,511 --> 00:40:30,879

Asha Michelle Wilson: So I had to sort of be outgoing and

00:40:30,939 --> 00:40:32,185

Asha Michelle Wilson: energetic and make friends.

00:40:32,265 --> 00:40:34,075

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was kind of the kid who went up to people

00:40:34,096 --> 00:40:35,281

Asha Michelle Wilson: on the playground and was like, do you want

00:40:35,301 --> 00:40:36,063

Asha Michelle Wilson: to be my friend?

00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:40,536

Asha Michelle Wilson: And most of the time they said yes, and so

00:40:40,777 --> 00:40:43,084

Asha Michelle Wilson: you know I wasn't very shy at all.

00:40:43,465 --> 00:40:45,813

Asha Michelle Wilson: I really liked doing like impressions that

00:40:45,853 --> 00:40:46,696

Asha Michelle Wilson: I wasn't good at.

00:40:46,776 --> 00:40:48,522

Asha Michelle Wilson: I liked doing accents for people.

00:40:49,484 --> 00:40:52,594

Asha Michelle Wilson: So I was definitely more gregarious.

00:40:53,095 --> 00:40:54,560

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's so funny how many of the people

00:40:54,580 --> 00:40:55,685

Marc Preston: in this industry were actually.

00:40:55,766 --> 00:40:57,736

Marc Preston: They're actually fundamentally more shy,

00:40:57,816 --> 00:40:59,102

Marc Preston: more reserved, but when they're on camera

00:40:59,143 --> 00:41:01,412

Marc Preston: it's like you know, but what are you

00:41:01,432 --> 00:41:01,974

Marc Preston: working on now?

00:41:02,034 --> 00:41:04,082

Marc Preston: What's coming up in the pipeline?

00:41:04,123 --> 00:41:06,031

Marc Preston: Either things that are already kind of in

00:41:06,051 --> 00:41:08,019

Marc Preston: the queue, or things maybe you're wanting

00:41:08,059 --> 00:41:10,146

Marc Preston: to kind of get into a queue.

00:41:10,246 --> 00:41:12,574

Asha Michelle Wilson: So I'm in development with Paramount Plus

00:41:12,654 --> 00:41:16,363

Asha Michelle Wilson: right now on a project that's a remake

00:41:16,523 --> 00:41:20,670

Asha Michelle Wilson: reboot, I guess of the 1990s film Soap Dish

00:41:21,712 --> 00:41:23,095

Asha Michelle Wilson: that started with Goldberg and Sally Fields,

00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,745

Asha Michelle Wilson: and so we're kind of in that process right

00:41:25,786 --> 00:41:26,086

Asha Michelle Wilson: now.

00:41:26,207 --> 00:41:28,532

Asha Michelle Wilson: And then I'm pitching out a few projects.

00:41:28,592 --> 00:41:30,866

Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm also working on season 14 of Archer,

00:41:30,966 --> 00:41:34,015

Asha Michelle Wilson: which is exciting, and I'm also working on

00:41:34,035 --> 00:41:36,885

Asha Michelle Wilson: a movie with Vanessa Hudgens and Alexandra

00:41:36,905 --> 00:41:38,893

Asha Michelle Wilson: Ship that the amazing Kimmy Gatewood is

00:41:38,953 --> 00:41:41,141

Asha Michelle Wilson: going to direct, and so we're kind of in

00:41:41,261 --> 00:41:43,607

Asha Michelle Wilson: early development on that as well and so

00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:45,351

Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of, you know, got a few different

00:41:45,391 --> 00:41:48,327

Asha Michelle Wilson: fires going and moving them all forward.

00:41:48,367 --> 00:41:49,996

Marc Preston: And I don't know how you do that, because I

00:41:50,016 --> 00:41:51,462

Marc Preston: got to focus on one thing at a time.

00:41:51,742 --> 00:41:54,109

Marc Preston: I say that I've got all kinds of crap going

00:41:54,189 --> 00:41:55,492

Marc Preston: on in my three teenagers.

00:41:55,552 --> 00:41:58,084

Marc Preston: But Paramount Plus, they're putting out

00:41:58,245 --> 00:41:58,867

Marc Preston: some good stuff.

00:41:58,887 --> 00:42:02,236

Marc Preston: I was a big fan of 1883.

00:42:02,597 --> 00:42:04,623

Asha Michelle Wilson: Yeah, that's like their biggest hit.

00:42:05,104 --> 00:42:06,970

Marc Preston: The Paramount Plus thing is that something

00:42:08,394 --> 00:42:09,397

Marc Preston: rough ETA.

00:42:09,457 --> 00:42:11,966

Marc Preston: And well, of course you know, man plans,

00:42:12,006 --> 00:42:12,970

Marc Preston: god laughs, of course.

00:42:13,050 --> 00:42:14,536

Marc Preston: But I mean what, what, what, especially in

00:42:14,557 --> 00:42:15,781

Marc Preston: this business?

00:42:16,363 --> 00:42:16,844

Marc Preston: When is that?

00:42:17,024 --> 00:42:18,648

Marc Preston: When are you thinking that make your next

00:42:18,688 --> 00:42:20,032

Marc Preston: project could be rolling out?

00:42:20,481 --> 00:42:21,545

Asha Michelle Wilson: Well I did Well.

00:42:21,606 --> 00:42:22,670

Asha Michelle Wilson: In terms of the next project that I have

00:42:22,690 --> 00:42:25,501

Asha Michelle Wilson: coming out, the project that I worked on, a

00:42:25,642 --> 00:42:27,706

Asha Michelle Wilson: show for Netflix called Agent King that

00:42:27,746 --> 00:42:29,009

Asha Michelle Wilson: should be coming out this fall.

00:42:29,750 --> 00:42:32,905

Asha Michelle Wilson: In terms of the Paramount project, that is

00:42:32,945 --> 00:42:34,269

Asha Michelle Wilson: still a little unknown.

00:42:34,329 --> 00:42:37,999

Asha Michelle Wilson: I'm hoping sooner rather than later, but I

00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,148

Asha Michelle Wilson: think in this industry it's kind of always

00:42:40,830 --> 00:42:42,738

Asha Michelle Wilson: like you said you make a plan and execs

00:42:42,818 --> 00:42:43,059

Asha Michelle Wilson: laugh.

00:42:43,099 --> 00:42:46,507

Asha Michelle Wilson: Really I think you should say but but

00:42:46,567 --> 00:42:48,031

Asha Michelle Wilson: hoping sooner rather than later for

00:42:48,091 --> 00:42:48,812

Asha Michelle Wilson: everything, really.

00:42:49,321 --> 00:42:49,824

Marc Preston: Well, that's pretty cool.

00:42:49,844 --> 00:42:51,835

Marc Preston: We'll tell you what I do before before we

00:42:51,875 --> 00:42:53,463

Marc Preston: wrap up always have what I call my seven

00:42:53,503 --> 00:42:55,891

Marc Preston: questions, purely just fun.

00:42:56,392 --> 00:42:58,359

Marc Preston: First question I always love asking because

00:42:58,399 --> 00:42:59,927

Marc Preston: I'm a food guy I mentioned Anthony Bourdain

00:42:59,947 --> 00:43:01,838

Marc Preston: says, right down the middle of where I'm at

00:43:01,899 --> 00:43:03,586

Marc Preston: what is your favorite comfort food?

00:43:03,626 --> 00:43:05,735

Marc Preston: That thing that's like if you've had a

00:43:05,775 --> 00:43:07,343

Marc Preston: rough day or maybe it's a whole lot of work,

00:43:07,363 --> 00:43:08,651

Marc Preston: you're like you know you could go eat

00:43:08,671 --> 00:43:09,879

Marc Preston: healthy, but you know I'm just going to go

00:43:09,899 --> 00:43:11,463

Marc Preston: get this or maybe it.

00:43:11,563 --> 00:43:12,846

Marc Preston: Maybe your comfort food is healthy, who

00:43:12,886 --> 00:43:13,087

Marc Preston: knows?

00:43:15,071 --> 00:43:19,428

Asha Michelle Wilson: I really love cooking and a meal that, if

00:43:19,468 --> 00:43:21,053

Asha Michelle Wilson: I've had a rough day, that is actually like

00:43:21,515 --> 00:43:23,602

Asha Michelle Wilson: not difficult to put together but really

00:43:23,662 --> 00:43:26,171

Asha Michelle Wilson: soothes my soul, is I'll make a steak and

00:43:26,211 --> 00:43:28,739

Asha Michelle Wilson: mashed potatoes and put like a bunch of

00:43:28,779 --> 00:43:29,703

Asha Michelle Wilson: truffle salt on it.

00:43:30,104 --> 00:43:32,152

Asha Michelle Wilson: And that feels like a little elevate, yeah,

00:43:32,212 --> 00:43:34,160

Asha Michelle Wilson: and it feels a little fancy and very like

00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,088

Asha Michelle Wilson: warm and cozy, but does not take long to

00:43:36,129 --> 00:43:36,691

Asha Michelle Wilson: put together.

00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:38,358

Marc Preston: Yeah, you're kind of like me.

00:43:38,378 --> 00:43:39,927

Marc Preston: It's like, what's that one little thing you

00:43:39,947 --> 00:43:41,638

Marc Preston: can do to kind of like make a seem a little

00:43:41,678 --> 00:43:43,003

Marc Preston: fancier, especially what's nice when you're

00:43:43,023 --> 00:43:44,005

Marc Preston: doing it just for yourself.

00:43:44,046 --> 00:43:46,091

Marc Preston: You're like, look, I made this.

00:43:46,361 --> 00:43:47,849

Marc Preston: You know nobody's around the notice, but

00:43:47,869 --> 00:43:48,633

Marc Preston: you're proud of yourself.

00:43:49,196 --> 00:43:50,461

Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down with three

00:43:50,501 --> 00:43:54,673

Marc Preston: people for a cup of coffee and it'd be a

00:43:55,014 --> 00:43:57,100

Marc Preston: living or not who would those three people

00:43:57,301 --> 00:43:57,381

Marc Preston: be?

00:43:57,502 --> 00:43:59,008

Marc Preston: Would love to talk story with for a few

00:43:59,109 --> 00:43:59,350

Marc Preston: hours?

00:44:00,093 --> 00:44:00,334

Marc Preston: I was.

00:44:00,394 --> 00:44:01,418

Marc Preston: Whenever I asked this question.

00:44:01,439 --> 00:44:03,386

Marc Preston: I always get the coffee bean and tea leaf

00:44:03,426 --> 00:44:05,394

Marc Preston: across from the director's guild on sunset.

00:44:05,816 --> 00:44:07,966

Marc Preston: That's that coffee shop always comes to my

00:44:08,006 --> 00:44:09,354

Marc Preston: mind whenever I ask this question.

00:44:09,434 --> 00:44:10,681

Marc Preston: So, because I guess that's where he's to

00:44:10,721 --> 00:44:12,125

Marc Preston: post up with my computer and do work.

00:44:13,488 --> 00:44:14,712

Marc Preston: But who would you like to sit down with?

00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:24,091

Asha Michelle Wilson: Madeleine Khan, kevin Klein love him and I

00:44:24,312 --> 00:44:25,453

Asha Michelle Wilson: and Tracy Ellis Ross.

00:44:25,634 --> 00:44:26,795

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think she'd just be fun.

00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:27,581

Asha Michelle Wilson: You know, madeleine.

00:44:27,601 --> 00:44:28,082

Marc Preston: Khan is funny.

00:44:28,102 --> 00:44:32,472

Marc Preston: Going back to Mel Brooks movie, yeah,

00:44:32,672 --> 00:44:33,394

Marc Preston: frankenstein, what am I?

00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:34,103

Marc Preston: Drawing brain.

00:44:34,263 --> 00:44:36,091

Marc Preston: How can I brain fart, madeleine?

00:44:36,111 --> 00:44:37,858

Marc Preston: Khan I had like a little.

00:44:37,898 --> 00:44:39,323

Marc Preston: I remember being a kid kid have a little

00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:41,288

Marc Preston: micro crush on her Like it's like she was

00:44:41,429 --> 00:44:42,331

Marc Preston: micro crush.

00:44:42,612 --> 00:44:44,282

Asha Michelle Wilson: macro crush Come on.

00:44:44,483 --> 00:44:45,285

Marc Preston: She, she was.

00:44:45,466 --> 00:44:47,131

Marc Preston: I mean, because I was a kid, she was older,

00:44:47,171 --> 00:44:49,277

Marc Preston: but she's funny, I was like I like that,

00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,222

Marc Preston: that's cool, man.

00:44:51,144 --> 00:44:52,428

Marc Preston: Now that brings me actually to my next

00:44:52,488 --> 00:44:54,821

Marc Preston: question who was your celebrity crush when

00:44:54,841 --> 00:44:55,343

Marc Preston: you were a kid?

00:44:56,767 --> 00:44:59,316

Marc Preston: Oh, when I was a kid, oh hey you want to

00:44:59,336 --> 00:45:01,081

Marc Preston: bring up who it is now we're going to take

00:45:01,101 --> 00:45:02,305

Marc Preston: that answer also, no worries.

00:45:02,586 --> 00:45:03,910

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was gonna say I don't know if I have one

00:45:03,970 --> 00:45:05,742

Asha Michelle Wilson: now, they're all great.

00:45:06,203 --> 00:45:11,517

Asha Michelle Wilson: When I was a kid, I think Okay, when I was

00:45:11,537 --> 00:45:13,201

Asha Michelle Wilson: really little, it was a classic Jonathan

00:45:13,221 --> 00:45:14,464

Asha Michelle Wilson: Taylor Thomas type.

00:45:14,544 --> 00:45:14,865

Announcer: Oh yeah.

00:45:14,986 --> 00:45:15,166

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was.

00:45:15,366 --> 00:45:17,572

Asha Michelle Wilson: That was definitely like my first onscreen

00:45:17,672 --> 00:45:17,752

Asha Michelle Wilson: one.

00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,446

Asha Michelle Wilson: Also, Jeremy Sumter from the live action

00:45:20,466 --> 00:45:21,729

Asha Michelle Wilson: Peter Pan was a big one.

00:45:22,310 --> 00:45:24,104

Asha Michelle Wilson: Those were like my first, like oh my gosh,

00:45:24,125 --> 00:45:26,379

Asha Michelle Wilson: they're so pretty kind of crushes for sure.

00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:27,765

Marc Preston: When you only have three networks.

00:45:27,865 --> 00:45:31,248

Marc Preston: I mean you had these big teen heartthrobs

00:45:31,268 --> 00:45:32,583

Marc Preston: that were like, okay, now you got a

00:45:32,603 --> 00:45:33,908

Marc Preston: gazillion different shows on.

00:45:33,980 --> 00:45:35,767

Marc Preston: It's not like everybody's watching, you

00:45:35,807 --> 00:45:35,948

Marc Preston: know.

00:45:37,822 --> 00:45:39,147

Marc Preston: Anyway, I'm getting that time machine over

00:45:39,167 --> 00:45:41,165

Marc Preston: and over again and just go tell my kids

00:45:41,186 --> 00:45:42,725

Marc Preston: like, say there were three networks much

00:45:42,765 --> 00:45:43,247

Marc Preston: upon a time.

00:45:43,980 --> 00:45:44,844

Asha Michelle Wilson: Back in my day.

00:45:46,020 --> 00:45:47,923

Marc Preston: Now the next question I got if you were to

00:45:47,943 --> 00:45:49,288

Marc Preston: go to an exotic island, it's actually

00:45:49,308 --> 00:45:49,950

Marc Preston: somewhere you want to be.

00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,543

Marc Preston: You're gonna be there a year, though, and

00:45:52,563 --> 00:45:53,808

Marc Preston: there's no streaming or nothing.

00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,062

Marc Preston: You can bring a DVD of a movie, and you can

00:45:56,102 --> 00:45:58,920

Marc Preston: bring one album with you for a year, and

00:45:58,940 --> 00:46:00,166

Marc Preston: that's all your entertainment.

00:46:00,220 --> 00:46:01,024

Marc Preston: What are you gonna bring with you?

00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:03,407

Asha Michelle Wilson: The movie would be Clueless.

00:46:05,180 --> 00:46:05,964

Asha Michelle Wilson: I love that movie.

00:46:07,580 --> 00:46:12,321

Asha Michelle Wilson: The album would probably be oh gosh, I'm

00:46:12,361 --> 00:46:14,421

Asha Michelle Wilson: blanking on the exact name of it, but it's

00:46:14,802 --> 00:46:16,908

Asha Michelle Wilson: the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

00:46:16,948 --> 00:46:20,122

Asha Michelle Wilson: duets album, that's.

00:46:20,262 --> 00:46:23,585

Asha Michelle Wilson: It's like a very thick album, but that one

00:46:23,645 --> 00:46:24,387

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think they just.

00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,045

Asha Michelle Wilson: I love their voices together.

00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:26,883

Marc Preston: Very good, very good.

00:46:26,903 --> 00:46:28,661

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's funny, clueless, I think, as

00:46:28,681 --> 00:46:31,510

Marc Preston: some of the most memorable dialogue.

00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,126

Marc Preston: I mean, there's so many quotes from that

00:46:33,187 --> 00:46:35,789

Marc Preston: movie but it's kind of not got lost in time,

00:46:36,361 --> 00:46:38,427

Marc Preston: but you gotta have to remember the movie

00:46:38,487 --> 00:46:41,022

Marc Preston: that you know, I remember it, I remember it

00:46:41,062 --> 00:46:42,685

Marc Preston: enough for a lot of people, I think.

00:46:43,962 --> 00:46:45,207

Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down from the time

00:46:45,227 --> 00:46:47,020

Marc Preston: you wake up to the time you go to bed and

00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,070

Marc Preston: you're to define a perfect day, what would

00:46:50,090 --> 00:46:50,511

Marc Preston: that perfect?

00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,005

Marc Preston: What would the component parts be of that

00:46:52,045 --> 00:46:52,587

Marc Preston: perfect day?

00:46:53,340 --> 00:46:55,046

Asha Michelle Wilson: Okay, I would probably schedule the day

00:46:55,086 --> 00:46:55,708

Asha Michelle Wilson: around food.

00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,510

Asha Michelle Wilson: So if I could do like a nice big breakfast

00:47:00,570 --> 00:47:03,566

Asha Michelle Wilson: in the morning with like blueberry pancakes

00:47:03,787 --> 00:47:07,583

Asha Michelle Wilson: and like bacon and eggs, and then I would

00:47:07,623 --> 00:47:11,649

Asha Michelle Wilson: want to oh, part of me wants to just say

00:47:11,810 --> 00:47:13,744

Asha Michelle Wilson: Disneyland actually as the whole day.

00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:18,081

Asha Michelle Wilson: But I'm gonna go for big breakfast, maybe

00:47:18,121 --> 00:47:20,463

Asha Michelle Wilson: going to the beach and then having like a

00:47:20,523 --> 00:47:24,521

Asha Michelle Wilson: nice lobster roll by the beach and then

00:47:25,444 --> 00:47:29,553

Asha Michelle Wilson: going to see, like you know what I really

00:47:29,593 --> 00:47:30,784

Asha Michelle Wilson: loved, this would actually be a part of my

00:47:30,845 --> 00:47:31,307

Asha Michelle Wilson: perfect day.

00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,165

Asha Michelle Wilson: I remember the Hollywood Bowl used to do

00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:36,665

Asha Michelle Wilson: these shows where they would play a movie

00:47:36,740 --> 00:47:38,246

Asha Michelle Wilson: like, let's say, beauty and the Beast or

00:47:38,306 --> 00:47:40,886

Asha Michelle Wilson: something, and they'd have actors come in

00:47:40,906 --> 00:47:42,843

Asha Michelle Wilson: to sing the songs and then there was a live

00:47:42,923 --> 00:47:44,068

Asha Michelle Wilson: orchestra playing in these watching the

00:47:44,088 --> 00:47:44,208

Asha Michelle Wilson: movie.

00:47:44,420 --> 00:47:45,824

Marc Preston: I think I remember hearing about that yeah,

00:47:46,246 --> 00:47:46,888

Marc Preston: they were amazing.

00:47:46,928 --> 00:47:48,662

Asha Michelle Wilson: They did the Little Mermaid and they were

00:47:48,682 --> 00:47:52,242

Asha Michelle Wilson: just, really just nice moments and I would

00:47:52,262 --> 00:47:54,222

Asha Michelle Wilson: probably want to do that at night and then

00:47:54,744 --> 00:47:56,703

Asha Michelle Wilson: maybe in the in-between, take like a tap

00:47:56,743 --> 00:48:00,761

Asha Michelle Wilson: dancing class for fun or something, and

00:48:00,801 --> 00:48:02,629

Asha Michelle Wilson: probably write at some point.

00:48:04,557 --> 00:48:05,320

Marc Preston: No, that's funny.

00:48:05,380 --> 00:48:07,488

Marc Preston: So the big breakfast Anthony Bourdain

00:48:07,508 --> 00:48:08,582

Marc Preston: mentioning that, and one of the things he

00:48:08,602 --> 00:48:10,161

Marc Preston: turned me onto, the idea of like it doesn't

00:48:10,201 --> 00:48:11,246

Marc Preston: have to be a sweet whatever.

00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,466

Marc Preston: You have a big bowl of like Asian noodles,

00:48:13,526 --> 00:48:14,228

Marc Preston: but it's spicy.

00:48:14,268 --> 00:48:15,071

Marc Preston: So I've kind of got a thing.

00:48:15,220 --> 00:48:16,386

Marc Preston: Well, it's the Texas part of me.

00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:16,882

Marc Preston: I like a.

00:48:17,324 --> 00:48:18,781

Marc Preston: I have some called chili chilies which are

00:48:18,801 --> 00:48:20,207

Marc Preston: really big, like kind of a spicy big.

00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:21,244

Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh, I love spicy.

00:48:21,761 --> 00:48:23,186

Asha Michelle Wilson: If I could end the day with a bowl of

00:48:23,246 --> 00:48:25,406

Asha Michelle Wilson: cereal, that would really like cap

00:48:25,466 --> 00:48:26,069

Asha Michelle Wilson: everything off.

00:48:26,140 --> 00:48:27,646

Asha Michelle Wilson: But I love spicy in general.

00:48:27,746 --> 00:48:29,705

Asha Michelle Wilson: I was gonna say so I'm a big fan of that

00:48:29,745 --> 00:48:30,428

Asha Michelle Wilson: Very good, very good.

00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,747

Marc Preston: Okay, now the next question I've got If you

00:48:32,768 --> 00:48:33,922

Marc Preston: weren't doing this, you weren't doing

00:48:33,962 --> 00:48:35,467

Marc Preston: something in this creative realm.

00:48:37,082 --> 00:48:39,249

Marc Preston: But they said, okay, no more movies or TV.

00:48:39,580 --> 00:48:41,087

Marc Preston: What would your vocation be?

00:48:41,180 --> 00:48:42,566

Marc Preston: What would be the thing that turns you on?

00:48:44,685 --> 00:48:48,763

Asha Michelle Wilson: Oh my God, I think I just was thinking

00:48:48,783 --> 00:48:49,526

Asha Michelle Wilson: about this the other day.

00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,101

Asha Michelle Wilson: My answer used to always be like I'd like

00:48:53,121 --> 00:48:55,550

Asha Michelle Wilson: to like own a bakery in Europe or something

00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,609

Asha Michelle Wilson: and, just, you know, make cookies and stuff.

00:49:00,501 --> 00:49:03,742

Asha Michelle Wilson: But lately I've kind of I mean, if I really

00:49:03,762 --> 00:49:05,523

Asha Michelle Wilson: couldn't do movies or TV, I'd probably

00:49:05,583 --> 00:49:07,405

Asha Michelle Wilson: write books, like I'd probably write beachy

00:49:07,505 --> 00:49:10,025

Asha Michelle Wilson: rom-com books about like characters that

00:49:10,065 --> 00:49:12,162

Asha Michelle Wilson: have to fake a relationship in order to go

00:49:12,202 --> 00:49:14,863

Asha Michelle Wilson: to a wedding or something, just because I

00:49:14,904 --> 00:49:16,832

Asha Michelle Wilson: think those make a lot of people happy and

00:49:16,852 --> 00:49:17,595

Asha Michelle Wilson: they're very fun.

00:49:18,202 --> 00:49:19,747

Marc Preston: You said BG rom-com.

00:49:20,921 --> 00:49:22,600

Asha Michelle Wilson: A beach read, beach read, rom-com.

00:49:23,304 --> 00:49:24,632

Marc Preston: Beach read oh okay, I gotcha.

00:49:26,163 --> 00:49:28,629

Asha Michelle Wilson: Yes, the very light, fluffy, heartwarming

00:49:28,709 --> 00:49:29,251

Asha Michelle Wilson: kind of books.

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Marc Preston: But the last question I've got for you if

00:49:32,300 --> 00:49:34,187

Marc Preston: you had a DeLorean, you can cruise back in

00:49:34,247 --> 00:49:36,908

Marc Preston: time and connect with 16 year old Asha.

00:49:37,541 --> 00:49:39,528

Marc Preston: What piece of advice would you offer

00:49:39,548 --> 00:49:39,969

Marc Preston: yourself?

00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:42,348

Marc Preston: That would be to get you on a better track

00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,667

Marc Preston: or maybe to bring more joy to your life.

00:49:44,768 --> 00:49:46,183

Marc Preston: In that moment, what would you tell

00:49:46,203 --> 00:49:46,564

Marc Preston: yourself?

00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,906

Asha Michelle Wilson: To try and live in the moment as much as

00:49:53,007 --> 00:49:53,649

Asha Michelle Wilson: possible.

00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:56,929

Asha Michelle Wilson: I think when you're, I was a kid who knew

00:49:56,949 --> 00:49:57,651

Asha Michelle Wilson: what I wanted to do.

00:49:57,860 --> 00:49:59,586

Asha Michelle Wilson: I knew I wanted to write TV, especially by

00:49:59,646 --> 00:50:00,108

Asha Michelle Wilson: 16.

00:50:00,901 --> 00:50:03,349

Asha Michelle Wilson: And so much of my life was, like you know,

00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:04,746

Asha Michelle Wilson: the kind of cliche teenager.

00:50:04,820 --> 00:50:06,686

Asha Michelle Wilson: I gotta get out of this town and make it to

00:50:06,706 --> 00:50:10,328

Asha Michelle Wilson: the city and no part of me wants to go back

00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,267

Asha Michelle Wilson: and relive high school or college at all.

00:50:12,740 --> 00:50:14,647

Asha Michelle Wilson: But you know, I think I wanted to grow up

00:50:14,707 --> 00:50:15,249

Asha Michelle Wilson: very quickly.

00:50:15,340 --> 00:50:17,768

Asha Michelle Wilson: I wanted to, you know, be where I am now,

00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:19,284

Asha Michelle Wilson: to be honest, and where I am now is great.

00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,161

Asha Michelle Wilson: But where I was then was great too, and I

00:50:22,201 --> 00:50:24,728

Asha Michelle Wilson: think it's hard to remember that sometimes.

00:50:24,769 --> 00:50:26,121

Marc Preston: So I'd probably say that it's funny

00:50:26,463 --> 00:50:27,981

Marc Preston: speaking with Neil deGrasse Tyson and

00:50:28,041 --> 00:50:29,382

Marc Preston: asking him the same thing and he's like

00:50:29,402 --> 00:50:30,687

Marc Preston: that's kind of a farcical question.

00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:32,426

Marc Preston: I mean I understood his perspective because

00:50:32,466 --> 00:50:34,047

Marc Preston: anything, there you're creating a whole new

00:50:34,107 --> 00:50:35,538

Marc Preston: universe for yourself because every thing

00:50:35,578 --> 00:50:35,800

Marc Preston: happens.

00:50:35,820 --> 00:50:37,306

Asha Michelle Wilson: Creating paradoxes, of course.

00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,582

Marc Preston: Exactly, you know so Well.

00:50:39,702 --> 00:50:42,244

Marc Preston: I so appreciate your time again and I wish

00:50:42,264 --> 00:50:42,827

Marc Preston: you all the best.

00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:44,587

Marc Preston: I'm looking forward to seeing your name

00:50:44,607 --> 00:50:46,722

Marc Preston: showing up in more and more credits, and

00:50:47,043 --> 00:50:49,828

Marc Preston: most certainly You're so great to meet you.

00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,105

Marc Preston: Well, it's certainly a pleasure.

00:50:51,180 --> 00:50:52,842

Marc Preston: Now, please, next time you're sent your

00:50:52,902 --> 00:50:55,386

Marc Preston: food person, next time you're on Fairfax

00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:56,363

Marc Preston: you got a canter.

00:50:56,444 --> 00:50:58,045

Marc Preston: Please get some of the matzah ball soup for

00:50:58,085 --> 00:50:58,186

Marc Preston: me.

00:50:58,400 --> 00:50:59,766

Asha Michelle Wilson: I will absolutely.

00:51:02,388 --> 00:51:05,338

Marc Preston: All right, asha Michelle Wilson, enjoy this

00:51:05,458 --> 00:51:05,619

Marc Preston: chat.

00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:05,880

Marc Preston: Very cool.

00:51:06,222 --> 00:51:08,018

Marc Preston: We kind of, you know, pulled the curtain

00:51:08,038 --> 00:51:10,760

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00:51:11,991 --> 00:51:13,487

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00:51:13,508 --> 00:51:15,818

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