Writer-director Andrea Berloff imagines a female-fronted mob with 'The Kitchen'
by Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times
May 03, 2019
3 minutes
When "Straight Outta Compton" co-writer Andrea Berloff was tapped to direct "The Kitchen," a female-driven mob drama for Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema division, the assignment came just as it seemed she'd hit a glass ceiling. It was a personal come-to-Jesus moment.
"I reached a point where I thought, 'Well, I think this is it. I think this is as [much] as I'm going to get a chance to achieve,'" says Berloff, who received an Oscar nod for her work on "Compton." "I definitely felt like I was losing out on opportunities and not
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