{"id":101889,"date":"2016-05-08T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/08\/i-was-sent-a-script-recently-and-the-opening\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T21:52:09","slug":"i-was-sent-a-script-recently-and-the-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/08\/i-was-sent-a-script-recently-and-the-opening\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was sent a script recently, and the opening scene was; Jessica, or maybe not Jessica, whatever her name was, rolls around in bed and stretches. She\u2019s 35, and in brackets they had it say 8\/10, close brackets. I closed the script, and didn\u2019t read the rest of it. Because you cannot reduce a character, you cannot make them their attractability, you can\u2019t number them and then claim you\u2019ve written a multidimensional female character, or a male character. That is just not acceptable. [\u2026] And I think it\u2019s very important to say \u2018this is the reason I didn\u2019t respond to, or didn\u2019t read your script\u2019, because that\u2019s absolutely outrageous. You can\u2019t do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Andrew Scott, <a href=\"http:\/\/pariscomicsexpo.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Comics Expo 2016<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madmoizelle.com\/andrew-scott-interview-544965\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent a script recently, and the opening scene was; Jessica, or maybe not Jessica, whatever her name was, rolls around in bed and stretches. She\u2019s 35, and in brackets they had it say 8\/10, close brackets. I closed the script, and didn\u2019t read the rest of it. Because you cannot reduce a character, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/08\/i-was-sent-a-script-recently-and-the-opening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1527,5728,12659,4,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}