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Tony McNamara On The Challenge Of Adapting ‘Poor Things’ & His “Low Stress” Relationship With Director Yorgos Lanthimos: “We Just Understand Each Other In A Very Easy Way” — Storyhouse
The Oscar-winning writer was at Dublin's Storyhouse event where he talked hurdles in writing and his "low stress" relationship with Yorgos Lanthimos
Tony McNamara likes a challenge but when Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos first presented him with Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel by Poor Things to adapt into a script, even the seasoned Australian writer admits he found the material daunting. McNamara said the two set up a Zoom interview and “twelve minutes later Yorgos walked out of the office past the producers, and they asked what happened or if it went badly and he just said, ‘It’s fine – we’ve got it’.” I’m interested in the experience of writing and working with creative people and the business of what happens to your thing – I can’t control it.
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