Chris McLean JD
@mactheauteur
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writer/director. member of @IATSElocal728 negotiations committee. math enthusiast. CFB fanatic. poet. Side Hustle Link - https://t.co/ApsJ9OpUG0
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2020
What is the single best episode of television you’ve ever seen?
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Emma Stone broke one of Meryl Streep’s records today. That’s like watching a player in the NBA right now break one of Wilt Chamberlain’s records: it’s unthinkable. At just 37, Stone became the youngest woman ever to earn 7 Oscar nominations. Streep was 38. Greatness all around.
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📺DEBUT: ‘Chappelle’s Show’ starring Dave Chappelle premiered 23 years ago, January 22, 2003, on Comedy Central
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Practical effects don’t age — they rot, ooze, and scar themselves into cinema history. No pixels, no safety net… just latex, sweat, and nightmares you can still feel.
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Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d one day be recurring on two of my favorite shows. Feeling very, very grateful. Dark Winds begins airing 2/15, For All Mankind 3/27. I hope you’ll tune in to these wonderful shows made by wonderful people.
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So my manager says he loved my feature rewrite and there are no notes. Developed and wrote up a pitch deck for a producer and he messaged back to say he loved it and there are no notes. 🤔 Is this going to be a 2026 trend? Ben the one draft wonder who writes nothing notable?
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Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse?
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Feels fitting…
‘THE STUDIO’ Season 2 has begun filming Coming soon to Apple TV
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I have some movies that haven’t been written. No idea how long they are. Since they haven’t been written. 😂
The Duffer Brothers say there was a three-hour version of the #StrangerThings5 finale, which was never written. One early idea involved the characters coming across a massive field of Demogorgon eggs in the Abyss, but it was dropped to avoid “demo fatigue” and keep the focus on
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The sentiment isn’t wrong but if I’m being honest, I can tell you from first hand experience that if you’re someone decent at making friends and networking, there is a huge amount of value to being where 90% of your industry is. The vast majority of opportunities I’ve had as a
Don’t move to L.A to become an actress — you’ll just be a waitress. Don’t drive to Nashville to become a country music star — you’ll just end up playing empty honky-tonks at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday. And don’t move to Silicon Valley with a twenty-page business plan
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It feels like everything that needs to be said on the subject of screenwriting, has been said... Multiple times.
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Took us 6 years to get SEND HELP made. It all started as a pitch to Sam Raimi. Original movies in the theater are an endangered species. If you love them, please come out on the 30th. This movie is an experience. You'll scream and laugh and gasp and why am I pointing at that guy
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A lot of writers struggle with receiving feedback because despite what they claim, they want to be AFFIRMED, not INFORMED.
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Most mustaches you see today will be gone tomorrow. They're ironic, hipster... they're frauds. Mine will be here forever. That's my pitch to showrunners and the promise I'm making to the American people. The mustache you get used to seeing on screen will always be there for you.
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"Hi I'm Luke Barnett, 5'9" based in Los Angeles but also able to work local hire in Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Lexington, NYC, Seattle, DC, Austin, Louisiana, three of the Florida Keys, Boise, a cabin in West Virginia, and most of Europe."
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You don't owe these people anything. They will fire you on a moment's notice and replace you the next day.If I worked for this guy I would take an entire year off just to spite him.
Last year I eliminated our PTO policy. I called it "unlimited." The board loved it. HR loved it. Finance really loved it. Let me explain why Finance loved it. Under the old policy, employees accrued 18 days per year. Unused days carried over. When employees quit, we owed
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I’m super blessed to have mobile showers at my library. Today we had 42 people use the shower to jumpstart their day. Having empathy working in the library is a must have skill. You don’t know peoples stories. The library has so many resources to help people. My soul feels good!!
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