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Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: ‘Girls State’ Directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss On How Roe V. Wade Reversal Intruded On Exercise In Mock Government
As Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss prepared to shoot Girls State, they had no way of knowing that real-world events would intrude.
As award-winning directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss prepared to shoot their new documentary Girls State, they had no way of knowing real-world events would intrude upon the production in a major way. Just as hundreds of young women in Missouri were assembling for an annual exercise in mock government, the draft Dobbs opinion leaked, signaling the U.S. Supreme Court’s intent to reverse Roe v. Wade. McBaine and Moss explain how Taylor Swift ’s music became important to the Girls State experience – and how one of the artist’s songs ended up in their film that’s now streaming on Apple TV+.
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