Good on Paper—which she wrote, produced, and starred in—centers on a woman (Shlesinger) who dates a pretty damn near “perfect” guy, only to discover he's lied about everything. “Everything that the antagonist says in this movie, I took from my real life,” Schlesinger tells Glamour. “My inspiration was dating a real-life sociopath.” There was nothing funny about it at the time—or for a while after—but eventually Shlesinger decided to find the silver lining in the experience. “Writing this film was absolutely cathartic,” she says. “As an artist, a large part of what we do is working through darkness or societal issues.
While the end of the film is a bit of revisionist history wish-fulfillment, I wrote it so people who have been unjustifiably.
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