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He spent hours watching videos of young girls directly addressing the camera with existential titles like Who Am I?

and transcribing them word for word, including the ums, uhs, and nervous stutters.
How do you write someone who cant talk?
How do you dress someone who cant dress?
How do you interior design for someone who has no sense of interior design?
Burnham asked, rhetorically.
I wasnt on set going like, You missed anumto Elsie or to any of the actors.
Writing it like that was really just giving them permission to be inarticulate.