Tennessee Williams

really came from that draft and came from story conversations with Clay and I about movies with that kind of barbed relationship and how important it was for us not to kind of repel the audience, because I think it's a fine line to enjoy two people going at it and to know how to hurt each other as it is for it to be kind of suffocating for the audience.

So, you know, we talked a lot about You know, Tennessee Williams and movies like The Lion in Winter, which was such a touchstone for the nasty cattiness of the dialogue between the family.

Other movies were Harold and Maude and just having fun with it.

how far we could stretch this crazy idea.

And I, I haven't had the, the, the added honor of when we did theater competitions, one theater competitions, we did it.

We did a sketch from why as kids, you know, everyone else is doing like plays from like Neil Simon and Tennessee Williams.

And we're doing a wise kids, you know, sketch for acting.

And I played Zach Kreger's character that he's playing in the sketch.

verging on melodrama earned melodrama maybe yeah that's a good way of putting it by the way it's quick sidebar i think i've mentioned this to you before but um you know when he was writing the second act of this he he wrote the first act in one sitting right legend has it from two in the afternoon to one in the morning right only two lines of which were changed from the version that we're going to go on and do in about an hour and a half The second act took him six weeks, took him longer.

And in that time, Kazan, Elia Kazan, who was the first director of this and the first director of All My Sons, said, come up to, in my mind it's Poughkeepsie, but it could have been somewhere else, and said, come see this play by this young writer, Tennessee Williams, called Streetcar Named Desire.

It's really good.

I think you should see it.

Not a magician, but...

I remember the set was all these boxes and it was a very like, there wasn't much dialogue and had like this really moving music.

Or Lucas Nath is a fantastic writer, by the way.

I love everything he does.