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Screenplays by actors – Joey Lauren Adams: “I wrote to get that feeling of passion.”

Joey Lauren Adams makes her feature film writing and directing debut with Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd. In a recent interview, she talks about how satisfying this new area of creative expression has been for her.

Question: Is writing a script like this or any script for that matter in some ways a reaction to the kinds of roles you’ve been offered as an actress and the frustrations that you’ve felt in that area?

Joey Lauren Adams: Absolutely, one hundred percent. My agency sends a script to my door, they drop it in front of my door and just wanting to get a script and open it up and read it and feel that feeling of passion, I just wasn’t feeling that with anything I read….

I wrote originally just to have something to get out of bed for, because during the down time as an actress I don’t function well. I need a reason to get me out of bed or I just get really depressed… And I didn’t know if I could write and if it would be good or what not – it was just for me, it was good for me to just get out and do it.

Question: So has this given you a feeling now that having done this movie and having gone through the whole Sundance experience with it, promoting it now, do you want to do it again?

Joey Lauren Adams: I do yeah.. I absolutely loved it.

[From darkhorizons.com interview by Paul Fischer, Nov 21 2006]

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