Is the character played by Jessica Chastain Molly Bloom? Kevin Costner, Jessica Chastain in “Molly’s Game “ Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock I wanted it to feel like Molly telling her story. She has a way of talking about these calamitous decisions she made which was very winning. She has a particular sense of humor about the observations she makes. I was knocked out by Molly when I met her and spend hundreds of hours talking to her during the research phase. And I just imagined Molly up there at a college auditorium where she’s been invited to speak, with a screen behind her, and she can demonstrate things: “There are the two hole cards and now he’s going to go crazy.” In present day, there’s no voiceover at all. I wanted it to feel like the best TED Talk you’ve ever been to. I wanted Molly to tell the story of the past, and not the filmmakers. How did I wind up with a movie blanketed with voiceover? It’s because I’m not that good! (laugh) As a screenwriter, I’ve always felt like it was cheating it’s easy enough to have somebody talk to you, but that’s not really what we’re supposed to do. In some movies it works great - “Goodfellas” is a classic. How did narration become the key to telling the story, and did you debate using it? Some screenwriters don’t like it. So going back and forth between those two stories was the puzzle.

She has 48 hours to find a lawyer to appear in federal court for the arraignment and help her stay out of jail. Then there’s the present-day story that isn’t in the book: she gets arrested in the middle of night two years after she runs her last game. How she went from that to running the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game, that’s the story she tells in her book, but as Charlie (played by Idris Elba) says, she wrote the book before the good stuff happened. She had her life planned out, with the credentials to do it. One is basically the story that Molly tells in her book, how she came within 100 yards from making the Olympic team and going to Harvard Law School with an Olympic medal around her neck, and starting a foundation for women. There were two stories that I was telling at once.

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