One of the things that drew us to a story like Jamie’s was to tell it from a professional vantage point as a professional odyssey. While that was certainly a part of that age for us, it wasn’t at all where we were idling with our friends at bars. And in our experience, the majority of the material we were coming across prior to “Nanny Diaries” focusing on women at that point in their lives is about trying to find a boyfriend. It’s also a time where you’re 360 and freefall. And I think it can really be paralyzingly overwhelming.ĮM: We find that time endlessly ripe for mining because the stakes feel so extraordinarily high. Nothing is locked down, which is freeing, but it’s also terrifying.
NK: One of the things that makes it so challenging is that you have no - what you call in theater or in writing - given circumstances. What’s the most challenging thing about writing from this perspective? Jamie seems to be in a very similar place in life as your main character in “The Nanny Diaries” - just starting out on her own. So we tried to bring that same feeling that Jamie is an outsider, so she has an outsider’s perspective and also an outsider’s romance for the city. It stayed with me, so I was glad to finally be able to write that.ĮM: There’s something about being a fish out of water in a city that is a place that so many people flock to begin their life. And I remember going up that hot, humid schlep to the Lincoln Memorial on my 11th-grade D.C. NK: We are lucky enough to have friends and family who live in D.C., so we’ve made many trips there over the years, going back to visiting friends who went to Georgetown. You mention the restaurant Graffiato, the National Gallery’s Jazz in the Garden concerts and having to schlep up to the Lincoln Memorial when relatives visit.
And we wonder if Obama - because he’s so charismatic and at the same time seems so very in love with his wife, such a good father and very healthy in that regard - makes it kind of safe to imagine something like this at a time like this because it feels like it could never actually happen. It’s interesting to us how much the idea of an affair with the president is in the zeitgeist. You tiptoe into pretty dangerous waters, throwing in some allusions to the current presidency, like the Portuguese water dog.ĮM: Well, we wanted to set it not in the past and not in the present.
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