{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Write On: 'Matlock' Creator & Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman","description":"\u201cThe most important thing that I've learned as a storyteller is that I have to treat every character in the show as though they're the lead in the show, and they are never doing anything so that I can prompt a move from another character. They are doing things that are true to what they want and their motivation. So that's what makes that architecture hard, because you know you want things to happen, but they have to happen coming out of character, not coming out of what the room wants to see happen. So it's like the merging of those two. We know what architecture we want, but if it doesn't feel true to the character, the character wouldn't do it. Every time, you\u2019ve got to say no, even though it's tempting, because that is who you have to protect \u2013 your characters,\u201d says Jennie Snyder Urman, creator and showrunner of Matlock, about creating story architecture in a series.  On today\u2019s episode, we talk with Jennie Snyder Urman, who created the reboot of Matlock starring Kathy Bates as Madeline Matlock. We chat about reinventing the beloved character once played by Andy Griffith, the joy of building a show around an older female lawyer and the generational changes in social attitudes women experience, and the sacrifices women often make when it comes to sexual harassment, including Matty herself.   \u201c[Matty] realizes now, coming back [to the legal profession], what it cost her. And it's not like every day she was thinking about it. It was just, \u2018Oh my gosh, I made these changes to avoid this. And why do I have to make these changes? Why didn't that person make the changes so I could be in the space where I was comfortable?\u2019 And I think what's so exciting about Maddie is that she's still learning new things at 75. I think there\u2019s also a little bit of a wish fulfillment, that you can still evolve, and you still learn, and you still feel new things,\u201d says Urman.  To hear more about Matlock, what we can expect from season 2, and Urman\u2019s advice for writers, listen to the podcast.  ","author_name":"Write On: A Screenwriting Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.finaldraft.com","html":"