James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Kids will do that to you.
The second time in my life, I cried.
You're not going to walk away.
I had to do it.
And it was a very tricky road because there was a movie star of decades earlier who had the rights and wanted to play the Shirley MacLaine part.
She was wrong for the part that she wanted to do.
That was tricky, her hurdle.
Well, it was just being patient.
I had the most amazing time because it was actresses in their 50s.
It was the part that comes along when all that shit is happening about age and all that.
Yeah.
So I just had this time of sitting down with great women who had done great work.
Yeah.
Almost all of them at that time.
And I hadn't come to Shirley yet for some reason.
And she had a super agent.
I don't remember the name.
She was the reigning agent at the time, Sue Mangers.
She called me and she said, you know, Potts, you haven't...
You've seen Shirley yet.