Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / How ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’s’ Creator Used Gwyneth Paltrow to Calm Her Nerves After the Show Premiered
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Shaw, runner and creative. They hit the show. Fleischman is
- 0:06Speaker 2: in trouble. Taffy Rodessa Achner. She was a staff writer
- 0:08Speaker 2: for the New York Times magazine Interviewing Stars before writing
- 0:11Speaker 2: her first novel, the best selling book the show is
- 0:13Speaker 2: based on. But the show just so happened to premiere
- 0:15Speaker 2: right when Elon Musk took over Twitter, which meant the
- 0:18Speaker 2: primary platform people would go to to discuss the show
- 0:20Speaker 2: was in upheavals, so Taffy couldn't really get a sense
- 0:23Speaker 2: if anybody was actually watching it. But she recalled a
- 0:25Speaker 2: realization she'd made during the former job that gave her
- 0:28Speaker 2: a little piece of mind. She tells Indy Wire, I
- 0:30Speaker 2: know this is a cultural journalist from interviewing Gwyneth Paltrow.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Gwyneth Paltrow has no idea what she is in the culture.
- 0:35Speaker 2: She doesn't understand it, and the minute you enter the culture,
- 0:38Speaker 2: you're no longer capable of assessing it. And I became
- 0:41Speaker 2: comfortable with that and saying, is this a hit show?
- 0:43Speaker 2: I don't know? Soon after it stars Jesse Eisenberg and
- 0:46Speaker 2: Claire Danes told her people were stopping them in the
- 0:48Speaker 2: street to praise the show, which hadn't happened to either
- 0:51Speaker 2: of them in a while, and once the award nominations
- 0:53Speaker 2: began to roll in, she knew for sure it was
- 0:56Speaker 2: a hit. Fleischman is in Troubles on
- 0:57Speaker 1: Hulu that's direct from Hollywood and