Nelson: People think you have to get rid of all your fear to become an artist, but that’s not true. I have been so much meaner to myself than anybody could possibly be. There’s nothing any critical person has ever said to me that I haven’t already said to myself. The littlest rejection becomes so big in your mind.īareilles: That has been my nemesis my entire life. I was just so self-critical that I couldn’t let anybody read it. I had that experience: I wrote my first movie, “Corrina, Corrina,” and then put it in a drawer for three years. Nelson: If you’re a creative person, oftentimes, you are your own internal antagonist. So many moments put Bess at odds with her own self-doubt. She’s struggling with such paralyzing self-loathing that she can’t even perform her own music and get to the point where she says, “I love this, I want to do it no matter what.” That’s so important, and that’s not about anything beyond your relationship to yourself. We tried to pay tribute to this very subtle but wonderful craft by following this young woman who is stuck playing covers. Nelson: While writing “Waitress,” I loved working with Sara and seeing how a germ of an idea could evolve over the course of a day and turn into this full-length song. But Jessie has such a gift for teasing out those internal ideas and emotions into something you can visualize and shoot. It’s not particularly interesting to watch someone make a song. What’s the biggest difficulty making a show about songwriting?īareilles: Well, the act of writing is a very internal process.
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