Emmy Award-winning director
PROFILE
Sacha Gervasi
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FROM Sacha Gervasi
The Business
Sacha Gervasi and Tom Pollock Before getting tapped to direct Hitchcock , Sacha Gervasi had only one directing credit-- the 2008 documentary Anvil : The Story of Anvil. So he was an unlikely choice to helm a biopic starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. But Producer Tom Pollock, a partner in the Montecito Picture Company and former chairman of Universal Studios, was sold that this guy -- who had a strong career as a screenwriter -- could do it. Then Gervasi tells how he wooed Anthony Hopkins and how the two had had an unusual encounter twenty years earlier.
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The Business
Revisiting showrunner Steven Bochco on his memoir Steven Bochco, the writer-producer behind record-breaking Emmy winners Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue, fought battles with everyone from out-of-control actors to network censors in his long career. He isn’t afraid to tell those tales in his memoir, Truth Is a Total Defense. This week we revisit the conversation where he shared some of his favorite stories with us.
UnFictional
The Other Man Stories of two men who meet by chance and emerge indelibly changed – or at least, one of them does.