Aline Brosh McKenna

We all want to be able to be cranky.

Well, I thought I was ancient.

I mean, I felt very ashamed that my first... I had made two movies before and a bunch of TV stuff, but it was my first big successful thing.

And I kept thinking, my God, I'm a 38-year-old mother of two, wife and mother of two, and it's taken me so long and this is so embarrassing.

And now, of course, I look at 38-year-olds and they seem like...

Little babies to me.

I don't know why I wasn't more generous with myself, but it felt, you know, I had been working for 15 years.

The world has changed so much.

Twas ever thus, you know, the world changes and so much had changed for these characters and for a long time.

Yeah.

We weren't going to revisit it.

And then every industry that is touched by this movie, fashion, publishing, journalism, has just all been turned upside down in the last five years, especially.

And that's how it became more and more interesting to us to sort of talk about, you know, what do you do when the world is changing all around you?

And obviously happening in the movie business, but kind of everywhere, you know, because I did always think about over the years where those characters were and what they would be doing.

And now they're presiding over tremendous change, managing a downturn.

So, you know, it's as fun a movie as you can make about managing downturns, I think.

Was that the pitch?

Yeah.

To get the band back together.

So it started with...