Maria Semple

and turns off all the desire.

With the stoicism.

With the stoicism.

And so to me, it's like this intellectual and wonderful woman who really has it figured out, but the kind of deal with the devil is that she has decided she doesn't want anything in her life.

No more desire.

And to me, that seemed like kind of funny, but then you bring desire into her life, and then what does she do with that?

And that seemed like a comic premise to me.

Well, that really was kind of a narrative solution where I needed in the beginning for Adora to be really happy being single, like genuinely happy.

And I felt like if I just had her sit there and say, I'm so happy being single, I love being single, maybe we wouldn't believe her.

It would be maybe protesting too much.

So I thought, how do I put that into action with just her full like imagination and energy

and ingenuity.

And so she kind of creates this thing on the floor of her building where all of her friends kind of move in.

I love this.

And the idea, so they pool their resources.

They kind of share, you know, subscriptions to the ballet and Netflix accounts.

Oh, and the celery.

And so she's very happy with everything about the covenant, really like captures her imagination.

And so I felt like this was a really,

good way to dramatize how a single woman would be happy.