Gaylyn Fraiche started as a Script Coordinator on the CBS series Johnny Bago for Executive Producers/Writers Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price and Executive Producers Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall and Steve Starkey.
Gaylyn’s first experience in feature films was as Oscar-Winning Director Curtis Hanson’s assistant on The River Wild, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon. She worked for Hanson for almost two years through the release of the movie and through early development of L.A. Confidential. From there she worked as Oscar-Winning Director Kathryn Bigelow’s assistant on Strange Days.
She began working at Castle Rock Pictures for CEO Martin Shafer on such films as The Green Mile, Best in Show, Miss Congeniality, and Proof of Life. She was promoted to Creative Executive and Director of Development.
She also served as VP of Film and Television for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.
In this episode, we talk about:
•  Starting off as an assistant to Television Producers James Hirsch and Robert Papazian on 10 Movies of the week and 2 series, executive assistant to showrunner for CBS TV Series Johnny Bago, assistant to Curtis Hanson who is now an Oscar winning director (Hand who rocks the cradle), Kathryn Bigelow on Strange Days
•   Reviewing Carrie Fisher’s script revisions on yellow legal pads
•  Watching dailies with Meryl Streep and her 2.5 year old daughter (picture of her eating the birthday cake)
•   What she would experience as the only woman in the room many of the time and perfecting her response: “I bet your wife wouldn’t like that”
•   Whether she would recommend the assistant producer track
•  Transition to Director of Development at Castle Rock Entertainment on the desk of Martin Shafer from development through international release of Miss Congeniality, The Green Mile, Two Weeks Notice, etc, networking with Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock
•  Consultant for Tia Mowry for motown christmas movie with Smoky Robinson and making movies with Hallmark and Netflix
•  Her role as Vice President for Film and Television at Hello Sunshine (Reese Witherspoon's production company)
•  How she got Nia Vardolis (who starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding) to be in her movie
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