Work in Progress: Megan Park
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 23.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
TV fans got to see Megan Park shine in front of the cameras in the popular series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, but her work behind the camera is bringing her critical acclaim. First, with her film “The Fallout,” and now her latest “My Old Ass,” Park has taken Hollywood by storm.
The writer-director joins Sophia to talk about “My Old Ass,” her coming-of-age comedy that has film critics buzzing! She also shares her experience watching movie-goers react to her film at Sundance, Margot Robbie’s hands-on support as a producer, her transition from acting to directing, and an inside look at her writing process.
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| 0:29.9 | hi everyone it's sophia welcome to work in progress. |
| 0:51.7 | Hi, whips, Marties. I am so, so excited about the gal I'm sitting down with today because not only is she, I think, one of the voices of our generation as a |
| 0:55.8 | writer and a director, she happens to be a dear friend. We have known each other for so long. Today's |
| 1:03.4 | guest is none other than writer and director of the Fallout and her latest My Old Ass, Megan Park. |
| 1:12.2 | You may know Megan from her early days starring on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. |
| 1:18.2 | You also may know her if you are a One Tree Hill fan as Tyler Hilton's incredible wife. |
| 1:24.0 | She is truly one of the most earnest, passionate, funny friends I have in my life who happens to write so openly that even though every single one of her stories is so unique and isn't something we've seen before, every single person who watches her films feels reflected in them, which is probably why they |
| 1:46.4 | have such unbelievably high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, and Megan has made her latest film with none |
| 1:52.9 | other than producer extraordinaire, Margot Robbie. I can't wait to ask her all about Sundance, |
| 1:59.0 | all about writing, how she finds each of these fascinating characters and her creative process in general. |
| 2:05.6 | Let's dive in with Megan Park. |
| 2:07.6 | It is honestly, it's like so weird to talk about work right now, but also kind of incredibly healing. |
| 2:27.5 | Like the week was really weird and I had planned to go to the Wicked premiere. |
| 2:33.9 | And I was like, I don't know if I can, what do I, |
| 2:37.5 | we're going to the movies. And then I was like, actually, the movies are exactly where I want to be. |
| 2:43.6 | And this, this movie that's based, or this movie that's based on a play that was based on |
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