The Screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’ Flunked English Class

Tony McNamara was a voracious reader as a kid growing up in a rural town outside Melbourne, Australia. But he never once considered becoming a writer. “I was always failing English,” he says. “I couldn’t get my head around grammar. Still can’t.” And yet today, McNamara, 56, is the Oscar-nominated…

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