Tracy Letts
👤 Speaker
1997
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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1990, The Handmaid's Tale.
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Carol Reese Rice was developing the script with Harold Pinter.
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Then they wouldn't allow Carol Reese to shoot the big crowd scenes he wanted to shoot, so he quit.
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And so Volker Schlondorf came on as director.
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And wanted Harold Pinter to make some changes.
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And Pinter, by that point, had been working on it for a long time and got exhausted by it.
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Was like, go to Margaret Atwood and have her make the changes.
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Anyway, it just wound up in a whole kind of script hell.
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And Diane Ladd, who was... Real life mother.
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And they were the first mother-daughter nominated for Oscars in the same year for this.
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Written by Calder Willingham, who wrote The Graduate.
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Based on a novel of his.
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The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame
Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Lucas Haas.