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I was sent the script, and I said yes.

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I wish I had directed it.

UTA, Barbras agents at the time, urged her to read the script, she said.

She liked it, and we had a terrific, wide-ranging conversation about the screenplay.

But I was pretty far down the road with Ted Melfi.

If the timing had been different, the result might have been different.

For one, imagine if she hadcollaborated with Pharrellon the soundtrack.