script

Today, the defiance of Mr. Khamenei appears neither scripted nor rehearsed.

“It was a brilliant script, and I was born to play that role.”

When she got the script for the episode, Whitaker, who admits she “wasn’t a ‘Lord of the Rings’ girl growing up,” binged the movies, eager to pull off the antics in the scene.

After Ian Fleming died in 1964, producer Cubby Broccoli contacted Dahl in 1967 and asked if he could write a script in eight weeks.

It walked them through different prepared sales scripts, explaining how to overcome various objections and even detailing the exact motions they should make while speaking.