Gennifer Hutchison
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Writer - The Rings of Power. Better Call Saul. The Strain. Breaking Bad. Also, just… like an enormous nerd.
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My favorite historical "discoveries" are ones male anthropologists/historians just *can't* figure out for YEARS that are swiftly answered by a woman when one is finally given access.
"But what could this ancient tablet of instructions even MEAN!"
Woman: "it's a recipe".
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Hi, that's called ableism.
Christopher Nolan doesn't allow chairs on set says Anne Hathaway — 'His reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working' 🪑🚫
(via
@Variety
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"Agree to disagree" is for stuff like the deliciousness of mayo and the appeal of Tom Hiddleston, not ones core values and whether or not other people deserve to be safe and live full lives.
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They're almost always things traditionally associated with women or the domestic sphere.
"Why did they keep knives up on the ceiling beams?! Must be about being closer to their gods."
Woman: "To keep the kids from getting them."
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I’m just very tired of people having to share their trauma in an attempt to convince the soulless husks trying to deny them basic rights that they deserve empathy.
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And a lot of times, it's like these men forget women existed.
"The hands in these ancient cave paintings are so small! Must have been the young men painting them!"
Woman: "Women painted them."
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Here’s a thread of some stuff that happens as you get older that folks don’t really talk about...
(Most of this will be about emotional or interpersonal stuff, not necessarily “holy crap does your body break down and fast” stuff.)
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This is one of many, many reasons why representation across all professions is so important. We ALL have biases, and having a truly representative team of people helps fill in those gaps.
If everyone is looking at something from the same angle, we miss the full picture.
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As someone who was severely bullied in school, a hearty fuck you to this bullshit.
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Just cast fat actors to play fat characters instead of putting thin actors in fat suits. If you do that consistently enough, those fat actors will become stars too and be just as bankable as the thin actors. But you have to give them those opportunities first.
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Very very very tired of this idea that scenes in tv shows and movies being entirely scripted is some rare occurrence.
Improvised scenes are very rare. If it seems improvised, that usually means it was well-written and well-performed! That's the point. We work hard to do that!
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I worked for a person who assumed that because I’d been an assistant for 7 years, I was just not a good writer. That lack of talent, not opportunity, was what kept me back.
They never read my writing.
It took me 5 more years to get my first script — on Breaking Bad.
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I don't really believe in an afterlife, but if there is one, I hope you get a list of everyone who ever had a crush on you.
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You will likely look at photos of young you and marvel at how fucking luminously beautiful you were and remember that when that picture was taken, you hated how you looked more than anything else in the world.
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Utterly fucking tired of men assuming that “hire women writers” means I’m advocating for lesser quality writers. Again, this is deeply sexist garbage.
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(Quick note that I know folks in the field have been aware of this phenomenon for a long time. I still think the examples of it are amusing. And I'm using them as a way to make a point about representation outside of that particular field. Also, sometimes we can just have fun.)
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“Write what you know” is why we have so many mediocre novels about middle aged male writers and their nearly identical midlife crises.
(That and publishing biases, obviously.)
Write whatever you can dream. Ground it in the emotional truths you know.
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So, lemme get this straight -- there are people for whom regular social interaction is... easy? And not a constant exercise in monitoring one's own facial expressions, eye contact, voice modulation, and level of information sharing... Like. They just... talk to people?
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Just leave trans people alone. Let trans people live their lives with the same rights as cis people, without harassment or harm. Someone else's gender has literally no affect on your life. Nope, not even a little bit.
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One day, you too will reach the age when all the most controversial songs of your youth will be used to sell you chicken burrito bowls and midsized sedans.
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Wait. Why are people suddenly paying attention to Gen X?? Fuck. They found us, friends.
They found us.
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I think one of the biggest bummers is how so many people just lack curiosity. Are in fact, almost violently opposed to it.
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Shared this before, but I worked with a writer who told me about a show he didn't get. The showrunner called him and said "the studio is making me hire a woman". This writer said this to my face as though it proved I had more opportunities.
The show? Had 9 white guys on staff.
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Talking to someone about an estranged adult child and their parent, and the person could not understand the child cutting the parent off because "if they die, wouldn't you feel terrible you never made peace?" And it's interesting because... (cont'd)
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You know how when a child is cranky, we always say "oh, they're hungry" or "oh, they're tired" and then we feed them or put them to bed, and then they're much better?
It's the same for us adults.
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Hire more women to write movies. Even if the movies do not have a female lead. Hire more women to write all genres. And not just white women!
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The framing here is bad.
Being a lead on a tv series is exhausting. Of course it’s a privilege, but it’s also reasonable for someone to realize it’s not for them and tap out.
We encourage people to leave jobs that hurt their health all the time. Actors get to do the same.
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One day you will notice your friends are aging.
It’s not bad, but it is a transition.
Your friends will age at different rates.
Sometimes their kids will look exactly like they did when you met them. This will make your heart ache in a lovely way.
They see the same in you.
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Me to a sad friend: “you are a perfect galaxy of wonder, you magnificent fae”
Me to a sad me: “well here we are again, you piece of shit”
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Your friends will remember completely different shit from when you were kids that you don’t remember at all, and vice versa. Some of the stories won’t even sound like you. Because you’ve forgotten a bit of who you were then.
This may be unsettling.
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You will likely forget huge chunks of your past — things that seemed like life or death at the time. Something will remind you, and you’ll realize how that hurt or fear melted away over time, and you didn’t even notice it go.
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...a lot of people don't understand (and are lucky not to) that many times a relationship with a family member is worse than not "making peace with them" before they die. There may be sadness when they die, but that pain does not outweigh the pain of a relationship with them.
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I feel that Tom Holland's "Umbrella" performance on Lip Sync Battle will go down as his greatest performance of all time, and I mean that as the highest possible praise.
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Further, the costs of "making peace" are almost always paid by the one not at fault for the relationship breaking in the first place.
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Weird to be in the middle of a year that will be a full chapter in a kid's history book some day.
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I wish more people would realize there’s a big difference between a show/movie/game/etc being “bad”versus it being not to your taste.
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If your dark, gritty movie/show contains no humor or joy, it’s most likely not a true reflection of the world. Even in darkest times, there’s almost always humor and light to be found. It’s a survival instinct.
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You will go to concerts of bands you loved in high school and college - controversial, youth-oriented, angsts, anti-establishment bands - and everyone there will be old.
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If you are a person who doesn't understand why adult children would cut off a family member, your inability to fathom why is not their responsibility. It's fine to wonder, but a lot of times, explaining the dynamics is itself painful.
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Everyone claiming it's a "joke" or "overblown" or that I'm a terrible person:
Even if it was a "joke", it's still ableist and harmful. Equating sitting with laziness is bad.
Also, this anti chair thing on sets is SYSTEMIC. It is a real problem and legit barrier for folks.
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Let me write a Dishonored TV series, you cowards.
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I remember when TV went high-def and the ER creators saying that set dec had to redo every piece of paper hanging on the wall on sets because suddenly everyone could read them. Before that, any properly formatted writing looked correct. The resolution change reinvented the job.
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So I guess I can talk about this now...
Incredibly excited to be on this journey with this team!
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One day, you’ll get in your feelings and wax rhapsodic about the beautiful pain of growing older to a bunch of strangers on the internet.
I mean, maybe. Hypothetically speaking.
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I was nominated for a WGA award for it. Been a writer since, moving my way up “quickly” (after 12 yrs of asst. work).
It is not just talent.
It is not just working hard.
It’s also access, timing, luck.
Don’t assume the length of the journey reflects the scope of the talent.
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Is it purely a Gen X/older millennial thing to fondly remember when you would go to the sit down Pizza Hut as a special treat?
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Kids under 12 still aren't able to be vaccinated, so maybe take a breath before being dismissive of folks' fears about the loosening of the mask mandates in public. Everyone wants to get back to normal. Not everyone can yet.
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Finally, it is not your job to hold the feelings and needs of those who hurt you above your own.
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Longtime friendships will often reach a level of comfort and understanding that you never expected or even thought to imagine.
Other friendships may fade, but it’ll be okay.
You may make new friendships, which will be liberating. They only know current you.
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Cutting someone off is valid and often necessary for actual healing, and if you care about the person who has done so, support them without adding your own judgement.
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For those wondering (and those writing whole articles about tv writers' rooms), here's the sequence of staff titles, in ascending order:
Staff Writer
Story Editor
Executive Story Editor
Co-Producer
Producer
Supervising Producer
Co-Executive Producer
Executive Producer
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You will likely be lucky enough to really know yourself now. To love the things about you that you hated for so long. You will still have problems, but you will have a better understanding of your core values and how to deal with them.
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If you kept a journal and you reread it, you may not like who you were in it. You may feel guttingly sad for young you. You may long to go back (likely not... but some folks do!).
You may toy with destroying the journals. Some of you will.
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Just a reminder that you should not have to annihilate yourself to be considered good at your job.
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Younger folks may ask you for advice.
And you have some! But it’ll feel weird because it reminds you when you felt that problem was insurmountable.
You’ll want to tell them everything will be okay but realize they have to learn that themselves.
(You tell them anyway.)
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Hey, a gentle reminder that people tend t post their wins, and not their losses. So if it feels like everyone’s getting career and life wins, and you aren’t, try to remember that you’re only seeing a tiny percentage of everyone’s actual lives. The highlight reel. Hang in there.
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You may physically not be able to do a thing you used to and loved to do, or it will become much more difficult. This will rock you to your core. It’ll feel like the death of a part of you. A core thing that made you, you. This will hopefully pass, but it’ll ache.
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Some of your friends (or you) will have a legit mid-life crisis and you will see it happen in real time. And you will marvel that mid-life crises are real things that happen.
And that friend will want to talk about their running/new car/affair and you’ll be so bored.
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One day, you’ll realize that you haven’t shopped in/on a particular clothing store or site that you love and you’ll wander over to it and every item of clothing will suddenly seem completely foreign and perplexing in style.
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This writer didn't view them as "stealing" his spot away. But here's the thing - THEY were his competition. Not the ONE woman the SR "had" to hire. The men are competing for those NINE spots, while the women are competing for ONE.
This is how most "diversity" works in staffing.
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The trends of your youth WILL come back, just like your parents said when theirs did, but they’ll be slightly altered in color or cut or notions.
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I know that the murder hornets look like a loose thread in the plot of America 2020, but... they're coming back in the third act, y'all. It's basic story structure.
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Rachel McAdams is great as she always is and I am ready to write for her that time travel movie where SHE actually time travels whenever she’s ready.
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Parasocial relationships are a helluva thing, I know, but it's so important to remind oneself that you don't fully know a person by what they share online.
For instance, I am authentic online, but the picture I present is not complete.
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There are so many incredible voice actors, and it's a real bummer they've been locked out of major animated movies in favor of famous screen actors to such a degree.
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So I guess anyone who needs to use both hands to drink is, what exactly?
No really. What exact moral failing is it when you need both hands to raise a glass to your mouth?
When you equate someone’s moral worth with how their body looks or works, you’re not only hurting them.
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Having experienced trauma in one's life is not a free pass to mistreat others.
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What’s the most offbeat, random, surprising movie you love?
Mine’s Drop Dead Fred.
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It's going to be really hard to forgive everyone who spent "quarantine" gallivanting around at bars and hair salons and parties and whatever the hell else while we stayed at home and attended funerals via Zoom.
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Really dislike the thing where because I have a scheduled thing later in the day, my brain refuses to do anything but wait for that thing.
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It must be very weird to have people still acting like you and your ex of FIFTEEN years are really just a heartbeat away from reuniting.
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Filmmakers and theater makers get into tv because there's a lot of money to be made there and then pretend like they're elevating the medium. (TV doesn't need you to elevate it, darlings.)
Don't work in a medium you loathe and paper over your insecurities with snobbery.
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I went to high school in Alabama, and still have friends there. They’re all progressive (more so, often, than my California friends), but they live in a gerrymandered state. It makes me so angry when bad shit happens there and people write them off as tho they deserve it.
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Someone on here called me a feminazi for "ruining Tolkien" and wow, I haven't been called a feminazi since high school. Memories!
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Today it's Nolan's name attached to this issue, but it's so many folks in charge of sets. It's built into the on-set culture, and it's something we absolutely have to reckon with as an industry.
You can like his movies. But this conversation is valid, no matter how good the art.
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Less then 30 hours till The Rings of Power premieres the first two episodes! I'm extra excited because I wrote the second episode!! I hope you love the show!!!
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Excusing abusive behavior on a film/tv set because it "elicited a good performance" is and always will be a trash take. Actors deserve better. Trust their talent and hard work and respect their humanity.
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Remember, a first draft's purpose is not to be perfect, or even good. It's purpose is to be done.
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Reminder that Rhea Seehorn pronounces her name like "Ray", not like "Ree-uh".
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And there it is, Season One of
#TheRingsofPower
-- a very long time coming. Thank you to everyone who supported the show, who made the amazing memes, who sent lovely messages... it's been truly wonderful to share the season with all of you. Onward!
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Imagine being so cynical and detached from your own basic humanity to think tweeting “people die from other stuff too” is appropriate after a day with two mass shootings.
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I dunno. Tired of white people (and lotsa dudes) looking at movies and shows about people who aren't white (and aren't dudes) and being like "I just couldn't connect with it" (esp. when the movies and shows are dealing with universal themes and emotions). It's just a huge bummer.
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Also… put more incidentally fat characters in shows and movies where their fatness is not the sole focus and totality of their existence, story, and arc.
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Finally a joke made literally JUST FOR ME.
I can’t believe they made a Lord of the Rings prequel and didn’t call it “Better Call Sauron.”
#RingsOfPower
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I think it's time we move away from (mostly) dudes taking a cool scifi concept and using it solely to explore how much they hate their wife.
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This one:
@GennHutchison
Yesterday, in a meeting, I looked around the table, at all the grown-up, authority figure faces, and realized they’re probably all my age - “adult”. There will never be a magic moment when I become an adult in my own eyes but reality happened anyway.
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You don’t owe anyone the story of your trauma to get them to give a shit about basic human decency.
I’m done. Fuck that.
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I just want to give credit to the cast and crew of
#TheRingsofPower
-- they worked so hard to bring this world to life, and the work they did was stunning, across the board. The show was beautiful, the actors were incredible -- it's a dream to get to work with such talent.
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Really demoralizing watching one of the oldest and most storied studios be strip-mined in real time.
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Just catching up on this whole "Neil Gaiman wrote Rings of Power" thing (he didn't... I'd remember), and wow... uh... the internet is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
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Ladies (particularly my fellow white ladies), the patriarchy will never love you. Stop defending it.
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This is even worse for Black writers and other writers of color. For LGBTQ+ writers. For disabled writers. The game IS rigged... against "diverse" writers. The opportunities are significantly less because they're not competing for 8 slots. They're competing for 1 or 2.
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Hey, The X-Files literally changed my life. It was my first LA job and gave me the network that led to every other job I had after it (in roundabout ways). It’s where I first worked for Vince Gilligan, who gave me my first writing shot.
Happy Anniversary.
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Advice to young writers: outline if it works for your process. If it doesn’t, don’t outline.
(And don’t listen to “you MUST do writing ONLY THIS ONE SPECIFIC WAY” advice.)
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Now that I basically only wear "soft pants", I have actually downgraded some of my previous comfortable soft pants to "soft hard pants" and will wear them only if absolutely necessary. Entropy reigns.
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