FosseVerdon director Jessica Yu on getting inside Bob Fosse's mind and tackling MeToo
” saw her receive her first-ever scripted directing accolades. In the episode, Yu tackled a #MeToo tale about the titular male choreographer , and crafted intricate moments of that larger-than-life man losing his spark — and almost his life.” world, and was there ever consideration of directing a different episode?
Did you shoot the scene where Bob was forcing himself on Sherry [Alexis Carra] in “Glory,” differently now, when #MeToo is on everyone’s minds, than you would have a few years ago? I was trying to lean into the sameness of the awards and coming home and putting them on the dresser. There’s something that can feel empty pretty fast if you’re coming home alone; you realize what you sacrificed to get the bauble. So it was tracking man at his height and then how the emptiness is being filled up with other things. It’s funny because there’s that moment of Paddy Chayefsky telling Bob Fosse, “The Oscars, the, the Tonys, this is all bulls—.
Speaking of your past documentary work, what made you want to crossover from nonfiction into scripted in the first place?
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