The playwright said one of the challenges of writing “8” was remaining faithful to what was said in court while keeping the play at a manageable length.
“A lot of that comes from testimony on the stand and interviews done outside of the courtroom.”īlack said he took out about 10 minutes of legal arguments “that I felt was repetitive … and replaced that with more details about our plaintiffs and their lives,” including their children. “I wanted to hear more from our plaintiffs and to personalize their stories,” Black said in a phone interview. Edgar,” said he has revised the play since its New York reading. And I think that a system like this means you stay nimble longer, and that makes for a more creative experience.Black, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of “Milk” and also wrote this year’s “J. On a computer program, you’re searching, you’re struggling, and it’s a mess. I’ve not found a computer program that lets you see everything at once, the way you can if you’ve laid out cards on a table or the floor, to reveal the big picture of what you’ve built, and then to so easily pick something up from act one and move it into the middle of act two, right? You do it in a second if it’s laid out on a table. So I can really be deft when I need to be, to move the moment when something is revealed, and to separate it from other details. And I would always keep them on separate cards, and I would end up with tons of cards, and people thought I was nuts.īut I quickly found that when you’re laying the story out, after all the research is done, it’s so helpful not to have ideas tied to one another, to keep them independent. I would scribble on cards, little facts, story elements, maybe character details. So I sort of came up with my own system, which started as a research system. It’s a step up from that, but I think it’s the same philosophy, which is, I got things I’d rather put my mind to today. I think they’re better than, you know, what’s his face, the Facebook dude, Zuckerberg who wears the gray hoodies all the time. They’re just easy, and it’s one less thing for me to think about, and those little cells that would’ve stressed out about what I’m putting on my feet can now think a little bit about story. I’m wearing a tuxedo with black Chucks and didn’t think a second about it, and someone asked, “Will you be wearing those to the Oscars?” And in my brain, I’m like, “Of course not.” It’s not a fashion statement. I was doing press at the Writers Guild of America Awards. I remember when the Academy Awards were approaching, I didn’t realize that they had become such a part of me. I think they were on sale at a discount shoe shop on Sunset Boulevard, years ago when I first moved to L.A., and I was broke, and I was like, “Those are cool, and they’re on clearance for 15 bucks,” and I never stopped wearing them.
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