Chris here. I hope you're having a relaxing and safe holiday weekend!
Earlier this week, hiding among the constant updates on the reams of money The Force Awakens is floating in, we got this year's Screenwriters Roundtable! You'll remember from November that we had some feelings about this year's Actress Roundtable and I'll confess that I found this year's Actor Roundtable underwhelming in lineup and discussion. However, the Screenwriters edition is often the loosest and freshest each year - with its selected participants typically on point.
This year, we have an exciting range of experience and genre: Emma Donoghue (Room), Nick Hornby (Brooklyn), Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), and Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs).
The hour-long discussion is insightful and relaxed in a way that's been missing as we've followed the season. Highlights include LeFauve talking about earning emotion in scene beats, Hornby discovering anachronisms in his film's source material, and Sorkin being Sorkin. See the roundtable after the jump!