Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy is president of the jury at this year’s international competition at Series Mania, but she took time out of her busy schedule as a screenwriter and producer to give a masterclass on her craft in front of an audience of avid listeners in Lille, France.
Joy may be best known for co-creating the HBO hit series Westworld along with her husband, Jonathan Nolan. The pair ran the show for four seasons until it was canceled last year. Asked about how it felt to see years of work come to an end like that, the 45-year-old writer said: “to be a writer in Hollywood is to intimately know what rejection feels like.
