![]() ![]() ![]() The first one was that I was coming to the world of “The Girlfriend Experience” at a time that #MeToo had happened. I’m going to try my best and honor that, build upon it, and also create something that hopefully is surprising and new and different and worthy of a next chapter.” And so I had sort of two impulses. Marquardt: I had a fairly good grasp on how to write for the given budget at hand and how to keep the bird’s-eye view to get it done within certain parameters. How was the learning process of how to write for television? So much happens even in just the last two episodes. What was it like for you to adapt to television storytelling? There’s a couple of very big story shifts that happen through the season. My adaptation of Allison’s novel had a dual timeline at its core. And the core of what Season 3 was going to be changed a bit once the network realized that what they really wanted to focus on was a more global approach set in London with a younger protagonist, one storyline that is chronological. She had a completely different season all mapped out that we ended up pivoting from to what you saw.Īnja Marquardt: In some drawer there’s now 13 episodes of a version of the story that is very different in content and context, and based on a novel by Allison Leotta, who used to be a federal prosecutor in a former life and had written a very interesting foundation for a potential season. And Anja can speak to that in more detail. And they did, and it just took us a while to settle on what Season 3 should be. So we were hoping that Starz would want to move forward. Steven Soderbergh: Well, our plan was always to, every two years, bring on a new filmmaker, or filmmakers if they were paired. For the second, Seimetz and Kerrigan separately wrote and directed two distinct stories, one starring Anna Friel and the other Carmen Ejogo. The first season, which starred Riley Keough, was written and directed in collaboration by independent filmmakers Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan. ![]() Once again, the series’ hallmark is as much a vibe as anything: tightly controlled emotions, stylish locations, discomfiting sensuality.īased on Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film “The Girlfriend Experience,” starring Sasha Grey as a young woman who works as a high-end escort providing emotional intimacy along with sex, the series has pursued an unusual auteur-driven anthology structure. The new season, currently airing Sundays, stars Julia Goldani Telles (“The Affair,” “Bunheads”) as Iris, an American behavioral and neuroscientist who, while researching artificial intelligence at a tech start-up in London, begins to work for an elite escort service. Returning after some 3½ years, the third season of Starz’s “The Girlfriend Experience” continues the series’ atmosphere of icy remove as it explores the transactional nature of work and modern life, this time with an added layer of technology-induced uncertainty. ![]()
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