Hey Reader! It’s Renny again. We saw PROJECT HAIL MARY and thought it was brilliant and, of course, as I was ruminating on the hows of the movie, I couldn't help but feel justified and excited about the creative decisions Ryan Gosling and co had to make: Hello, practical puppet!? Of course, Rocky was practical! (We've done our time with lots of practical puppets on set and it's truly special to see these characters come to life.) Youtube Video Essay -> Watch Extended Cut on Patreon -> This is...

Hey Reader! It’s Renny here. When I first started booking work regularly as an actress, I realized something pretty quickly: the producer had all the power on set. In fact, one of my first crew jobs was assisting an Oscar-winning producer on a feature film. That was the first time I said to myself, “I want to be a producer.” The only problem? I had no idea what that actually meant. Let’s be honest, “producer” can be a pretty loose term, and there are a lot of different kinds of producers out...

Hey Reader! My wife Renny and I often get asked, at a panel or on a podcast, “What is it like working side by side with your partner?” We usually end up saying something like, “We don’t know any different,” because basically, we started our careers at pretty much the same time and just kept working together. Our relationship, and eventually our marriage, was due in large part to the fact that we just enjoyed working together, creating stories, art, and movies. Watch our latest video here:...