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Welcome to another special episode of Hollywood unscripted stuck at home. I'm Jenny Curtis and today I'm virtually sitting down with Jessica Rhodes executive producer of sharp objects dirty John the Betty Broderick story the affair and Amazon's new original series utopia.
Previously head of television with Bloom House Productions she is now spearheading her own company pacesetter productions. Jessica thank you so much for joining us today. So nice to be here.
Our show right now has been a series of specials and we're calling them stuck at home because we're all stuck at home trying to find ways to be creative. Some of us are slogging through and that doesn't seem to be the case for you because by the time the show comes out you will have released two series during quarantine. So what is that like for you.
¶ The experience of putting two series out during quarantine, DIRTY JOHN: THE BETTY BRODERICK STORY and UTOPIA.
Yes it's been busy. We actually have three projects in post in March when the stay at home order came. One of their shows was in production but was on hiatus. So that was pretty easy to say let's just wait
and see when we'll go back to production. But we had these two beautiful exquisite episodes that were being edited on one and then we had dirty John the Betty Broderick story and Gillian Flynn's utopia both luckily locked which means all the editors were done with the episodes but we still had a lot of post-production to do.
And so March April was nimble Dick to witness working with these incredible teams. Luckily we had a really great shorthand QE the post producer on Utopia and I had worked together on the affair and Jonathan Howard on dirty John the Betty Broaddrick story had worked on season 1. So there was a shorthand a lot of the crew members were the same. We were able to really kind of hold each other up and get creative but we
had to move everyone to home. We had to have the effects artist and town mixers and composers and color attractions. We had to have everything moved to home which was a lot but we did it. We got these incredible shows finished. They took a little bit longer. Things take longer at home. It turns out both because people are juggling kids at school are not at school. I should actually say but also literal bandwidth issues visual effects shots take longer to do and descend back and forth and
home internet. But we got em all done and dirty John came out in June and then here we are at the end of September. I don't think we thought utopia would come out while everyone was still at home. But but here we are going to do. It's a good show for you to watch at home.
It certainly is. And when I go to that in a second but first I can admit I am always learning.
¶ The title of 'non-writing executive producer' and what Jessica does in production.
There's always something more to learn in this industry and until I started doing research for this interview I had never heard of a non writing executive producer. I didn't know that was a term but what is it you actually do on set and with your talent and writers and creators.
I'd like to think it was hands supporting television has always had on writing executive producers. There's always been producers who helped get shows made help writers develop them and shoot pilots and then take them to series and help staff them and help along the way. So not doing anything different in that respect. I do think from the moment I started producing for me I kind of live for writers. That's why I came to television. That's what made me know it was the right place for me.
My brother's a writer. His friends are writers of some of my very first experiences producing and supporting writers were genuinely people I loved and that felt really good to me. I think that was what I was meant to do is help creative people take their visions and get them across the finish line hopefully resembling what their vision is. And it takes a lot of people to do that. It takes a lot of work to do that. So what I just try to be is a partner to
the writer whose vision we're all here for. That's my partner and that's the person that I wake up in the morning for every job is different every show is different every person is different. I just try to be where they can't be or be where they need support.
So starting young and working with your brother. When did you realize Oh this is a job that I want to do.
No it's crazy. Someone the other day told me that
¶ Discovering that she could be a producer when seeing Marti Noxon's name in the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER credits
I was meeting with one of these mentorship programs and this lovely young woman was saying that she wanted to be an on writing AP and I had the same reaction you did and I was like How do you know what that is like. I did not know what that was when I was in college. There certainly weren't classes on it and there are now there's classes on TV production which they weren't even there was film programs
but no one was really teaching the TV landscape. When I came up but I was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan and I remember seeing Marti Noxon his name come up. Executive producer Marti Noxon I saw the I in Marti and I very distinctly remember being like that's a woman again. I didn't know you could be a non writing AP I just saw that a woman could be any pain TV like that was what that taught me. And then I kind of just kept moving forward which is I want to be in AP and television. I
love writers. It seems like writers could use someone to bad ideas back and forth with. That's a job. It's kind of how it happened.
I mean it's so embarrassing because she's now someone I can see that are such a close friend and confidant.
Having Marty be kind of the impetus for what started your career then what was it like working with her. Because she did sharp objects right.
Yes. Marty knows this. It's not that embarrassing because I
¶ Jessica's fan-girl moment when beginning to work with Marti Noxon.
think I told her the first time I met her. She came in I was at Plum house television and she came in to say this is what I want to do with sharp objects. It was on the feature side. And she said at the TV series and she came in and she and I just hit it off right away. We were volleying back and forth and we were talking about what the series was and what we loved about the characters and we just were just it was just. It was instant. There were other people in the room.
So I kept my cool and then I think it was like the second time we met and I was walking her out. And it's funny because it was a plum house and one house there's like secret hallway and they're like small I mean slum house. It was like down to like creepy long hallway too. I can't believe it. And I was like I just have to tell you I'm the biggest fan and you're the reason I'm in TV.
I totally geek out and choose like cool Bucky like she was like great. And I've never mentioned it again.
And then we became so close and so just knew we wanted to spend so much time working together. And then this story came up a couple times while we were doing some panels for sure Bob we had to relive the embarrassment. Now I just don't know I just own it.
It's good to be a fan.
It's like a combination my brother and Marty which is perfect because writers should be the reason I'm here.
I saw an article where she discussed how she and the directors on Mark Felt I would get into real sparring matches over creative vision and she had to put you and some other producers in between them. What was that experience like. Here's the thing.
¶ The friction on the set of SHARP OBJECTS making the project better.
The show was brilliant. The show was absolutely brilliant. So everyone wins and I think some of those creative disagreements actually made it better. I do believe that I think a lot of the times it was about something not being clear to one of them and so the process of making it clear made it better. But it was tough. It's very tough to make television when you don't have
a singular vision. That's just really hard. And we all learned from it and that show would not be as brilliant as it is about every single word on the page which we all made sure to follow.
You met Gillian Flynn on sharp objects. Now she is the creator of Utopia and this is her first time show running if I'm correct. Mm hmm.
I'd love to just hear about your relationship with her and your collaboration with her because she's quite a voice as you've said she's incredible working with first time show
¶ Working with first time showrunners and supporting Gillian Flynn in her first experience as showrunner.
runners has become one of my greatest joys because it's really helping them actually know what is possible what they can say no to as well as what they can ask for and where to set their limits and that's how I approach working with them. Like Marty is only Alexander cunning hands they know how they produce a show and how they want to produce a show and how they see it with them. It's just great.
Like how do we double the effort because there's two of us. And how can I be helpful and how can I be in more places and how can I help you get what you want. But with first time show runners it's so much fun especially women. We want to be A students. We want to do well but I think everyone has their first shot wants to do it perfectly wants to do everything. Look Daub is too big for one person.
And so what it is is an effort and restraint and knowing when someone actually needs that from you and when you need to work on your schedule not their schedule. And so getting to work with Jillian who had every answer in her head she wrote all the scripts. So there was never anyone else that was gonna be able to give you the answer so everyone needed her and
everyone wanted to get inside her wicked head. And so really it was about how do we build a structure or how do we bring in the very best department heads how do we bring in the best producing partners who can help this single person be in all these places at once. And I think that was an adjustment for Jillian from obviously writing novels but then writing screenplays for features. It's more of a director's medium even on
sharp objects where Jillian was in the writers room. It was amazing and then she was on set and she was the bible of the show and so everyone obviously wanted so much access to her. But it's very different especially on a show like utopia where there's so many twists and turns and hidden reasons why and how she wanted things executed were so precise. She did such an amazing job. I mean it's 100 percent Gilliam is a great show.
I've seen almost all of it because they were nice enough to leave off the ending episode from the script about that we kind of had to but I'm excited to see that one. It's based off of the British
¶ Having Dennis Kelly, the creator of the British UTOPIA, involved in this version.
version of utopia which was created by Dennis Kelly who is an executive producer on the show. So what was his guidance there and did he allow Jillian to have her own vision but also was it hard for him what was that like.
I mean Dennis was incredible in the fact that I think not unlike Gilliam is with her novels that she doesn't adapt his series exists and nothing she does in her series is going to change what his was and so he really gave her space to make her series which again is very much what Gilliam did for Marty you know with sharp objects and so he saw scripts and he saw the episodes and he was incredibly complimentary and very supportive.
I know that they had their conversations over the years it was a long process it was a long development process but he knew it had to be hers especially because it's an English language show so if you're going to remake an English language show you have to be changing it. You have to be reinventing it. It has to be yours.
And this version's feelings I'd love to hear more about the process. How did it start. How did you come onboard. Where did it all begin.
¶ How UTOPIA began and Jessica's first impression of the scripts.
So Julian had been developing it for a number of years at HBO when Gilligan and I got to know each other on sharp objects and they were just in the process of deciding it was going to be at a different network. And so Gilligan asked me if I wanted to come and be a part of it. She sent me the scripts all of them. Sorry not to rub in the fact that I got the last one.
And I remember distinctly because I had flown in to Albuquerque to visit Andrew Miller's set of tremors and I'd gotten in late and had to be on set early in the morning and I started reading on the plane and I kept reading I got to my hotel I checked in and I kept reading and I read until 4:00 a.m. And I think I had to wake up at 6:00 or so it was like the stupidest thing I could have done but I couldn't stop you then.
The series I'm sure you know I couldn't stop. Every new script I couldn't believe how much it subverted what I was assuming and expecting Gilligan is wickedly funny she has a sense of humor and person that it's dancing through her pages but a lot of the times it didn't appear in dialogue. You're not laughing out loud when you're watching sharp objects. Let's be honest like you told me I got to have these laugh out loud moments that Gilliam's full love. So I was so excited was
just such a different side of her. And then we went and we set it up on Amazon and we were off to the races.
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¶ Hiding the violence of the show while working from home with children.
say by the way about the violence made much more awkward that we were doing all of the post work from home and I was approving VFX shots and little I've never been so worried about who was coming over my shoulder. I have two small children.
And yeah usually when you're checking job you're worried about someone seeing a spoiler. Right.
Someone walking by from another show and finding something out about Utopia. This was like every day what nightmare can I keep my small human being from having. Did they ever see a no. The closest we got was I really loved the Amazon marketing campaign. And they sent the red band trailer and I was watching that when my daughter walked in and she knew very quickly that I was watching the show. She's not allowed to see and so she hightailed it out of there.
I can't imagine what the violence is in the British version. But even with that it looks like so much fun to make. Was there a specific day or scene or anything that you really loved making.
¶ The fun of making the show and the experience of creating 'FringeCon'.
Gosh it's so hard because the cast was so siloed and so much of the fun. Was there a rapport you know like I got to be there for the French con stuff. It's always so fun when it's not just everything and Gilliam's mind or your creative side but all of the department heads minds the wardrobe the production design and it would be not just our core cast right.
You'd look in a costume would walk by you in the cause play and it was brilliant right because they were having to invent all these characters like every graphic novel every character you'd see on the floor was this harmony between production design and costume design being like let's create this character.
In this graphic novel it doesn't exist and that's to me so much fun. That's the stuff that like let's put on a show.
Was it a challenge to create a convention of scale.
It was this weird thing. Gilliam and I have this idea that it's fringe con right. So it was very distinctly not supposed to be as cool as San Diego or New York. So that was a little complicated right figuring out like the scale of it. The crazy part about that is that hotel is real and has this honeycomb roofs and honeycomb balconies and is super you know weird. A lot of us stayed there because we're shooting through the night and so we lived in fringe fun. That was weird.
I want to talk about casting because the cast is great but John Cusack doesn't really do TV. So how
¶ Getting John Cusack on board, when he doesn't normally work on series.
did he get brought onto the project.
He was a really exciting idea. The fun part is Christie isn't in the original. He's not in the UK version. So that's a completely original character. We loved him the moment his name came up. We were shooting in Chicago which is where he lives and I swear we thought that's why they were excited about it and we thought like oh that's why John Cusack is doing TV is because it's TV in Chicago. And then he got on the phone with Jillian and he was like I love
these scripts. He was super in and then you look where you're shooting. He's like Chicago and he's like Oh.
That's great. And we're like oh that's not what you did.
That's just because it's great right. It's just great writing. How did you find the rest of the cast. They were great cohesive little unit.
Yeah. David Rubin who is now the president of the academy.
¶ Casting the rest of the actors, including Sasha Lane.
But he is our incredible casting director. He did sharp objects as well. So Jillian and I asked him to be part of Utopia and he just drove in and his team was so amazing. I think Gilliam had Sasha in her mind very early. I mean it's a hard role to cast.
Sasha Laine who plays Jessica Hyde. Jessica is such a interesting character because you want her to be a hero but she's not necessarily a hero she's just trying to survive like we hear over and over. You need to stay alive Jessica.
It's so specific. And Sasha so embodies. Jessica and then the rest we just assembled your mix and match. I mean there's some incredible breakouts which is really exciting.
¶ Sharing a name with the main character.
Is it interesting sharing a name with the lead character and so you're being screamed for on set. It's funny.
It wasn't a set thing because most people call her Sasha on set. Like it wasn't a set thing. It was absolutely a post thing because people in post don't exactly know the actors much or you're talking about the characters more whenever you'd have a conversation with the network and they'd want to talk about Jessica. That was I think I was the only one aware of it which is good. Like I was only about like you can't
get out of your own head you know. And then every once in a while in marketing we'd be on these huge calls and they'd be talking about Jessica and Jessica and Jessica. It's so weird that you ask that question because it's only ever happened to me once before which was in tremors. ANDREW MILLER named a character Jessica and promised to change then it never got changed. And then I was doing the same thing here. I knew going in.
So Jessica the character she's a badass and obviously she's been trained to fight and she's very agile and quick with her weapons and all of that. Did Sasha have to go through fight training. Did she do her own stunts ever. What was the process there.
¶ Sasha's fight training.
I mean the amazing thing about Sasha is that she had already done fight training for the movie. She'd done right before us. It's a big franchise. And so she had just done huge fight training and done her own stunts and was really excited about that.
But we ended up obviously we took safety precautions and it's not all the trajectory of the story with so
¶ The actors' knowledge of who makes it through the show and who doesn't.
many characters who do shockingly not end up continuing. Did the actors know the full script as they went in were some of them surprised at who stayed involved and who didn't.
That's a good question. I don't think I can answer it without spoiling me thing because if you've seen the show a couple of them knew going in.
Not all of them. That's a good enough answer for what you can.
Do. Ok I want to take a break from Utopia really quick and just go back in your career because
¶ Growing up through her career, from Disney to Blumhouse to Pacesetter Productions
you've done such vastly different genres. I grew up. It's like watching you grow up because you really started with Disney and Nickelodeon and working with Ashley Tisdale. I'd love to hear more about those years and what you learned from them.
Yeah. By the way now my kids are watching those movies and those shows and now it kills me that my kids can't watch my shows.
They will eventually you know it's so crazy.
I mean look I started producing when I was twenty two years old so I knew I wanted to produce for some strange reason thought I should be able to do it. And I had to figure out why people needed me why I could be useful. Well there's not that many things for someone to do. So I didn't figure out early that the family space was welcoming to me. I was young I was closer in age to the audience and so I could at least seemingly have my
finger on the pulse. I got along with the actors and I was able to make a lot of shows for Nickelodeon and Disney and I got to know the executives extremely well. And it was this really special thing. This is before a lot of writers have come over to TV. They were a lot of feature writers who weren't being produced. They were making money and a living writing but they weren't being produced. And so I was able to bring a few of them over and say let's get your show me let's get your movie made.
And that was really exciting right.
I was young and I didn't have real ties to L.A. and so I think I was in Vancouver for the majority of several years going one show to another. It was incredible and I am a firm believer in that 10000 hours the Malcolm Gladwell idea I get 10000 hours a producer extremely young and I got to a point where I could be calm and collected in almost any circumstance. And I was ready to make television that matched more what I wanted to watch and what I wanted to
read what I wanted to say. And so I was looking at how to transition and again it came down to writers a lot of writers who I had worked with had told their reps that they wanted to do more with me. It was it was just a it was that. And so a really great guy at CAA Frank was like Jason Bloom's looking for someone to head his TV company like would you ever do that. I know you've been a producer on your own all these years.
But like Is that something you do. And I said let me meet them because I was definitely looking for a change. And also what I liked about longhouse a lot is that Jason had built a company on the feature side based on giving the case to the directors right. This director creative autonomy that was so important to him and that's exactly what I wanted to do a.. That's what I came to TV to do for writers. And so I really even though obviously house is far more
well-known for the brand and the genre. I loved what was underneath what they were doing which was believing in those creatives and like sticking to them. So that was the transition which I think changed. When you look at the projects I've done there's a market change right there and I still appreciate Jason seeing that in me. I mean it was the same it's just writers writers writers.
¶ What Jason Blum saw in Jessica to know that she would be a good fit for the Head of Television.
What did he need to see from you to know that this kind of genre switch was in your wheelhouse would become.
I mean I think he probably saw that I just want to support the creative and that was important to him. I came out of low budget niche television. It happened to be for family entertainment but it's a company that built on low budget nation or payment so a lot of these are applicable skills. We just hit it off. I think he saw that I was a producer and I was coming into produced. I think he is attracted to people who are produce Oriel.
What is the job of head of television.
He certainly had a lot of television already setup. When I got there but the goal was taking the company which was so well known for what it did on the feature side and turn it into a go to television destination and to help people realize it wasn't just horror because that's a little too niche. And so figuring out what that brand could be.
When did you know that it was time to move on and create pacesetter.
They were becoming a studio and that I knew I didn't want to do I wanted to remain a producer. Sharp Objects was in prep and had become my day to day had become where I spent all my time and frankly I think we all looked at each other and went. That's where you should be. Looking back it was so much easier than it probably should have been.
¶ Her upcoming series STATION ELEVEN being another project about a virus.
Now you've got Station Eleven it's a post apocalyptic series about a flu.
I just have to point out the obvious.
You keep ending up in these virus movies.
The funny thing is we talked a lot about Gilliam and Patrick Sommerville gravitational Evan before I committed to both the projects themselves are not that someone.
They're very different shows they take place at very different times and a point where they're not to have been a real life global pandemic. I don't know that everyone would have actually compared the very area and they're so different.
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I've had this conversation with a few people where they're like you look outside and it feels like we're all in a movie but it's not. Does it get confusing reality vs. cinema. Because you're doing these epic stories and then it kind of matches what's going on outside.
Is Gilligan's Island a soothsayer. Maybe there's so many weird specific small things that hit the news and we are all on text chains just sending it to each other like cannot believe it.
No one's wearing masks in the crowd scenes outside the hot zone. We had an epidemiologist we had an adviser. It didn't occur to me. It's so funny it's so pre 2020.
What was the reaction that you and your team had when the pandemic hit. In real life. Having it relate so closely to your show.
¶ The UTOPIA team's reaction when the pandemic first hit.
Well the first thing was we had a mixed playback that needed to be reset like we had this one thing that we were every 12 hours taking a temperature check on everyone to be like it safe. Should we do it. Should we gather OK now this is a real thing. We're gonna push that. We're gonna figure it out. So I think honestly we were so laser focused on producing the show that I think that is when we all went. This might be a little too close to home.
I want to talk briefly about start with 8 Hollywood.
¶ The mentorship program #StartWith8Hollywood and advice that can be given to upcoming creatives.
The mentorship program. Could you tell us a little bit more about what it is and how you got involved.
The Internet the Twitter.
I mean it's absolutely incredible. There's bad things that have come out of social media and it is also nice to connect with people. And I saw quite early that some of the organizers were putting it together and I reached out and I said I'm here if anyone's interested. And they said yes. Then they introduced me to eight incredible young women. It's amazing what they were able to create so quickly and it's all volunteer run. And every one of the mentees is that a very different point
in their career. There's really a young girl who's never done anything and we're having conversations about what it is to be a writer's P.A. and whether or not that's the right thing for her when rooms reopen and people gather in person and other people have shot independent features and Independent Pilots which I don't know if that's a good way to spend your time. But I really appreciate
that they're doing it. I think that that's the thing people don't have mentors so people don't have people saying I don't know who's gonna watch that.
I don't know how that's going to lead to what you want. Let's focus on things that are gonna lead to what you want. How do we find the right way to show your talent grow your talent. How do we get in the right hands. What is a real next step.
So many young inexperience not necessarily in years creatives have been loading out there trying to figure out how to be creative how to use their time wisely. I am only. One person with one opinion so you have to pick
your advice well and decide if it's for you. But ideally someone's making introductions when you're ready for it and I like opening the barriers to entry because so much of this industry is absolutely who you know it just is it's OK as long as you have opportunities to know more people and people that frankly have different opportunities than you do want to ask them what is it.
That's not the right step necessarily about shooting your own independent feature or pilot.
¶ Why to shoot an independent feature rather than a spec pilot.
I think feature is great because there's actually something you can do with it that it's not only a test of your skill your art form. It's honing it back to 10000 hours just doing it does make you better. But aside from letting people see it there's release opportunities now they're streaming platforms. There is actually a way to get it seen. There's still no way that people can even see professionally produced pilots that don't go to series.
So a spec pilot to me I don't know that that's as effective as say a short or a feature. That's a really specific I don't know how many people are walking around shooting spec pilots.
We are kind of talk. Make your projects that you have something to show when you get the chance to meet someone because the door has opened. But it makes sense if you've put all this time and energy and money into a project and then you can't put it out.
That's just my opinion. I think what you want things that you work on to not only get the showcase what you can do but hopefully have a life for all the people that worked on it.
You came on to season two of dirty John and then you came on to like season 4 and 5 of the affair coming on later in a series. What is that experience and how do you find your flow with an already established show.
¶ Joining an established show
It just always comes back to the showrunner and just trying to watch and read and listen to whatever you can get your hands on from where they've been. And then just really focus on where they want to go and it's not without difficulty. You know it's tricky but hopefully if you're there. In my case they want you there. So you're really trying to help them. And luckily for both those two examples I was huge fan of the
shows to begin with and obviously the creators. So it's just an opportunity to work with them.
¶ Taking new lessons, even personal ones, from each set.
Each set you're on. Do you take away new lessons always.
But sometimes the personal lessons sometimes they're about how you manage your team or your life for your balance. Sometimes you realize where you're spending energy that you could spend less. You learn how to be more efficient in life but that just comes with age. I think that comes with every set but also just comes with age and being a mom you get really really efficient.
You mentioned who you look up to when you were getting into TV but did you have any mentors like how you're mentoring people now. Did you have any mentors as you were coming up.
¶ Not having official mentors of her own, but what she has instead.
Not that I knew they were my mentor. What I had were people whose careers I was watching and careers I was learning from. And sometimes it was learning what I didn't want to do but yeah what I've replaced that in later in my life and my career have been these deeply fulfilling collaborative friendships. But that's a generational thing too. I think that's why a lot of women of my generation especially are trying to be supportive of younger men and women that we see talent in.
So if you were mentoring young Jessica right now what would be your advice for you.
¶ Advice would be to her young self.
That's a good question. Wow it's a really good question because I do think every mistake you made gets you to where you're at right. I think just take it less personally. Get out of your own head and it's really weird advice to give from home when we're all so in our own minds and so in our own space it's really easy to forget that people are fixated and obsessed with their own things and their own issues and their own concerns and it so rarely has to
do with you. You know I think it's really easy to overthink things especially as someone who wants to be liked. That's a human trait. And I think to just not take it personally it is a business.
So I always wrap up on the same question which I am excited to hear from you because you have a different perspective but what does it mean to you to have a life in storytelling.
¶ A life in storytelling
Again it's funny being asked at this moment where people need outlets more than ever they need escapism more than ever entertainment more than ever. For me I'm always interested in what writers have to write what storytellers have to explore what tales they have to tell. And I think in moments like we're in currently you're literally watching writers write their way through it. And those are the stories I want to tell. And those are the stories I want to watch. So for me being a part of
telling those stories. That's how you connect. I truly believe that.
Jessica Rhodes thank you so much for joining us today. Everybody should definitely watch utopia.
It is on Amazon. It is a great show. And thank you so much for talking to us today. Thank you so much. Have a good one. Hollywood unscripted is created by Kurt Commedia this special episode of the stuck at home series was hosted and produced by me Jenny Curtis with guest Jessica Rhoades co-produced and edited by Jay Whiting the executive producer of Hollywood unscripted as Stuart Halperin the Hollywood unscripted theme song is by Celeste and Eric Dick.
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