Gabriel Mizrahi

She wants to be more fulfilled in her career, which I totally get.

But this is also her and her partner's way of moving to this big city and moving to Melbourne is how they get to have the support that they feel they need to raise kids one day.

very high and i wonder if she needs to maybe keep an eye on that because it can make a job search like this very taxing which might also be making her go man how long should i put up with this it's interesting i've been working on this really big rewrite of a movie that i have been working on for like five and a half years at this point brutal

And a new actor is coming on board or I should say is expressing strong interest in coming on board.

Nothing is guaranteed.

And this actor had some big notes.

So I'm having to do some pretty significant work on the script to like beef up her role and just make the movie better and better.

And when the director and I started working on this about a month ago, I felt so overwhelmed, almost paralyzed because it's like,

Man, there is so much riding on this rewrite.

If we nail it, if we somehow check all these boxes that she wants, which is a hard target to hit, she says, yes, and we're off to the races and my screenwriting career, blah, blah, blah, money this, credit that, exciting adventure that I get to have.

And if we don't do that, then maybe this actor says thanks, but no thanks.

And she's out.

And then where are we then?

So every time I sat down on my computer, I would have those thoughts in my head and that just makes it exhausting and stressful.

And it was not making me do my best work.

I actually noticed that I was coming at this rewrite from a place of fear.

What's going to happen if I don't do this the right way, whatever that means, as opposed to, you know, joy and curiosity and most importantly, good ideas.

Like how good can I make this script with her input?

Exactly.

So I had to do something that I've never really done before, which was I just had to put that thought out of my mind while I worked.