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‘Dying for Sex’ Creators on the Freedom of Writing Non-Penetrative Sex Scenes and Crying Over Pizza During Molly’s Death: ‘The Show Taught Me So Much About What Sex Could Be’
'Dying for Sex' creators Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock discuss their FX adaptation of the podcast of the same name.
Meriwether had made a hard pivot from sitcoms by 2022, creating the equally lauded but vastly different “The Dropout,” Hulu’s limited series about the rise and fall of fraudulent Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Molly tries to keep her sex life and her medical treatment separate, but that gets difficult when giving Neighbor Guy a swift, consensual kick in the penis lands her, not him, in the hospital, where she learns that the cancer has spread to her bones. Neither Meriwether nor Rosenstock had extensive experience writing sex scenes, but a Valentine’s Day workshop hosted by the Writers Guild of America over Zoom helped them figure out how to approach those moments with confidence.
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