James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then when it was her, I just didn't want to change Emma McKay's name.
Oh, you fell in love.
Oh, that's great.
I just lived with it for so long.
I liked that.
Emma McKay.
Oh, okay.
It was always called that.
And then Emma Mackey comes along after I spent, again, it was one of those stories like the Greg Kinnear story.
Went overseas, went to London.
The hope that when you try and write this female character and catch something, and it's like, if you build it, will she come?
And this was a real process.
miraculously, she showed up.
And this is her first American starring role.
She had one word in Barbie, but made an impact.
Oh, wow.
She's in Sex Education.
Yes.
And the Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn movies of the 50s, I adored.
And this was me, just tribute, whatever it is.