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Akiva Goldsman is an Oscar, Golden Globe, and WGA-Award winning screenwriter whose credits include A Beautiful Mind, The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Practical Magic, Cinderella Man, I Am Legend, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Insurgent, and I, Robot. He’s on Pulling the Thread, though, to talk about Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room, a psychological thriller starring Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried on which he was both the writer and the showrunner.
So first, some warnings: Yes, there are spoilers, though in my opinion, nothing that will markedly change your experience of watching the show. In fact, knowing the back story made it easier for me to get through the first, very stressful episode. (It gets easier, and by episode three, I was riveted.) And also, a trigger warning: The Crowded Room and our conversation explore childhood sexual abuse, which is also part of Akiva’s personal history.
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“The Crowded Room” on Apple TV+
TRANSCRIPT:
(Edited slightly for clarity.)
ELISE LOEHEN: Do you live in New York?
AKIVA GOLDSMAN: Yes, I returned. I moved to California for, you know, two months and stayed 30 years and it was enough.
ELISE: And now you're done.