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Molly Manning Walker & Charlotte Regan Discuss Lessons Learned From Their Debut Features ‘How To Have Sex’ & ‘Scrapper’ — Storyhouse
Molly Manning Walker and Charlotte Regan were at Dublin's Storyhouse screenwriters festival to discuss the dos and don'ts of making a first feature
Writer-director-cinematographer Molly Manning Walker and writer-director Charlotte Regan revealed some of the big lessons they each learned from their respective debut features How to Have Sex and Scrapper and imparted advice to an audience of screenwriters at Dublin’s inaugural Storyhouse festival for writers. “We had like 300 people a day for the first two weeks and I was throwing up because I hadn’t realized the task of what I had put in front of me, which was trying to get everyone dancing to no music whilst trying to get a performance from an actor that I didn’t really know that well in the middle of this hot and sweaty situation – it was just very tricky.” “I don’t know where we got them from, but they were our main points of reference so there was lots of ‘How can we do that Bourne Ultimatum sequence but on 50 pounds and a half hour of Lola [Campbell, who stars in Scrapper] because she’s only 12-years-old?’”
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