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Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton on BATTLE OF THE SEXES — Jessica Zack interviews

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When Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris first started working on their new Billie Jean King biopic, “Battle of the Sexes,” the 2016 presidential primaries were in full swing “and we figured we were about to see a political race between and a man and a woman, and then most likely our first female president,” said Faris recently by phone from their home in Los Angeles. Continue reading…

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Jessica Zack

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jessica Zack is a freelance journalist who has been writing about film for the San Francisco Chronicle since 2004. She also covers visual arts, books and general culture for the Chronicle, and contributes regularly to San Francisco Magazine and other publications. She is a graduate of Stanford University and got her start writing for the Palo Alto Weekly. Can be found on Twitter: @jwzack