During those lunches the phone would ring and it might be Clint Eastwood, or Steve McQueen calling to discuss script revisions.
You suspect it would even elicit derisive snorts at a meeting to discuss script ideas for Hollyoaks.
They become part of a group of paid historical experts, perhaps two dozen strong, who, during production, meet with the filmmakers, in New York and Walpole, to discuss script drafts and view early edits.
In 2001, Hironobu Sakaguchi revealed the company's staff wanted to develop a new game and were discussing script ideas.
He allegedly invited Loman to his hotel suite and assured her that they'd discuss scripts and the possibility that Loman would star in an upcoming film Weinstein was producing.
We discussed the script over a burger on the seafront at Venice Beach – "better chips in Bradford," Graham commented wryly.
The director, aged 33, had to fly to Los Angeles to meet him – even though, the filmmaker says with a laugh, as they live near each other in south-west London, "I could probably cycle to his house from my place!" They discussed the script for "a few hours" as they "took the temperature of each other, and how we saw Jane's screenplay.
He met Foote and discussed the script with him.
Scott had discussed the script with Crowe as they worked on A Good Year in France, and they sought to take on the project.
The two bought some grilled-cheese sandwiches at In-N-Out, and Murray had a driver take them out to Palm Springs, where they discussed the script the whole way.
