Melissa London Hilfers's guest appearances

Melissa London Hilfers

The Writers Panel

The ONLY Podcast about Movies

Screaming into the Hollywood Abyss

OwlTail

Conner Shin

Will Graham

Will Graham (co-creator, A League of Their Own; showrunner, Daisy Jones and the Six), Melissa London Hilfers (creator, Monarch) and Conner Shin (Harley Quinn; Fairfax) discuss writing for actors, building a machine that works, and why Will wants you to bring photos of your loved ones to the writers' room. PLUS a chat with The Ebo Twins (writer/director and producer of Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.)CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER &amp; THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIAbenblacker.substack.com https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Graham (co-creator, A League of Their Own; showrunner, Daisy Jones and the Six), Melissa London Hilfers (creator, Monarch) and Conner Shin (Harley Quinn; Fairfax) discuss writing for actors, building a machine that works, and why Will wants you to bring photos of your loved ones to the writers' room. PLUS a chat with The Ebo Twins (writer/director and producer of Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.)CONNECT W/ BEN BLACKER &amp; THE WRITER'S PANEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA<a href="benblacker.substack.com " rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">benblacker.substack.com </a><a href="https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BENBLACKER </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/TVWritersPanel </a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Will Graham (A League of Their Own;); Melissa London Hilfers (Monarch); Conner Shin (Harley Quinn) + The Ebo Twins (Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.)

We get lost with Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut "The Lost Daughter" and are lucky to have Melissa London Hilfers join us to help find our way back.Who is the titular lost daughter and what actually happened at the end? We've got theories!If you know the wherabouts of a lost doll email us in at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or send us a reward on our Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/onlymoviepod)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We get lost with Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNq9YOfL0Zs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">"The Lost Daughter"</a> and are lucky to have <a href="https://twitter.com/melissahilfers" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Melissa London Hilfers</a> join us to help find our way back.Who is the titular lost daughter and what actually happened at the end? We've got theories!If you know the wherabouts of a lost doll email us in at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or send us a reward on our Twitter feed (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/onlymoviepod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/onlymoviepod</a>)See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Ep 359: The Lost Daughter with Melissa London Hilfers

We talk to lawyer-turned-writer Melissa London Hilfers. She talks about her transition from attorney to entertainment, what her old colleagues think of her new role (and how they are easily impressed by celebrity namedropping) and the sense of achievement she gets from her creative work.In painful detail, she walks us through the time another writer told her he wanted to do a 'page one' rewrite of her script and how she circled around Los Angeles in an uber crying.She describes writing her first script with a baby on her lap, managing family expectations and the pride in creating a show.Melissa talks about some of the issues in Hollywood for a female writer, how her former career gives her the strength to stand up for herself and others and also how she is making sure she is running her room right.An inspirational story (with a few tears) of making the move to Hollywood and making it work.

We talk to lawyer-turned-writer Melissa London Hilfers. She talks about her transition from attorney to entertainment, what her old colleagues think of her new role (and how they are easily impressed by celebrity namedropping) and the sense of achievement she gets from her creative work. In painful detail, she walks us through the time another writer told her he wanted to do a 'page one' rewrite of her script and how she circled around Los Angeles in an uber crying. She describes writing her first script with a baby on her lap, managing family expectations and the pride in creating a show. Melissa talks about some of the issues in Hollywood for a female writer, how her former career gives her the strength to stand up for herself and others and also how she is making sure she is running her room right. An inspirational story (with a few tears) of making the move to Hollywood and making it work.