Eight years ago, Lucy Alibar was studying Drama in the Experimental Theater Wing at Tisch. Now she’s nominated for an Oscar Award for her work writing the screenplay for the film Beasts of The Southern Wild. So what’s it like to be up for the largest award in screenwriting?
“Sometimes I forget,” she tells us, referring to her nomination.
Three years ago, Lucy wrote Juicy and Delicious, a screenplay about a little boy who has to cope with his father’s illness, which later became the movie Beasts of the Southern Wild. “As soon as I wrote the play, I sent it to Benh [Zeitlin, Beast’s director]. He came to me soon after to talk about what a film adaptation would look like, and it was just such an exciting concept for me. I think when you’re just starting out, you should just say yes to everything. That’s what I was doing, saying yes to everything, pursuing everything and maybe never sleeping, but it’s worth it because you end up writing so much.” Read more…
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