"And I will say, what’s changed over the 25 years of my career is before I could not have made any characters explicitly Jewish. Andy Sachs in Devil Wears Prada is certainly Jewish. Sachs is my grandmother’s name, and Lauren Weisberger is Jewish. That’s a story about a Jewish woman, but that’s never mentioned, nor would that have ever been mentioned 12 years ago when the movie came out. And now, we’re writing one of the most unabashedly Jewish female leads, and we’re encouraged to do that. And I think that it is changing in a great way."
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Date: 2023-08-06 01:06 am (UTC)"And I will say, what’s changed over the 25 years of my career is before I could not have made any characters explicitly Jewish. Andy Sachs in Devil Wears Prada is certainly Jewish. Sachs is my grandmother’s name, and Lauren Weisberger is Jewish. That’s a story about a Jewish woman, but that’s never mentioned, nor would that have ever been mentioned 12 years ago when the movie came out. And now, we’re writing one of the most unabashedly Jewish female leads, and we’re encouraged to do that. And I think that it is changing in a great way."
There is a lot to unpack there.