Sally Wainwright
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548
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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
People think I must be very disciplined and I'm not.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
I'm not at all disciplined.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
It's just like I have to work.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
It's an internal drive.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
And you have two sons?
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
Yeah, I've got two boys.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
They live with me.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
Oh, good.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
Me and my husband split up about five years ago.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
And yeah, the boys are still at home.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
They both work.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
Yeah.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
It suits us all at the moment.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
It's kind of a misnomer because I'm not a showrunner.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
Because what I think a showrunner is, it is an American thing.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
And it's somebody who has invented the show, has a lot of experience, is usually a writer, and has a group of other writers with them who they sort of are in charge of.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
And they run the room, the writer's room.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
And then they also act as an exec.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
So I don't do that bit.
unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters
I don't run a room.