The pandemic thriller has an indirect link to the White House.
Her biggest claim-to-fame, though, comes from one key relationship from her past.
“She was married to a guy named Doug Emhoff,” Burns said.
Anna Jacoby-Heron as Jory Emhoff and Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff in ‘Contagion’.Claudette Barius/Warner Bros.
Harris discussed her coparenting relationship with the producer inanElleessay in 2019.
“Kerstin and I hit it off ourselves and are dear friends,” she wrote.
We sometimes joke that our modern family is almost a little too functional."
Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris at the 2020 DNC.Win McNamee/Getty
“I would say, ‘Okay, I’ll do that, but I’m not an expert.
And you really need to hear medical advice from a doctor, not a screenwriter.
Like, that’s insane that you are even asking me.'”
Burns said media outlets weren’t excited about hearing from doctors.
“They would say, ‘But we’ve heard from doctors,'” he remembered.
I’m like, that’s not I mean, I wrote a movie.
I’m not an oracle.
The screenwriter ultimately decided to bring a medical professional with him to each of his Covid-inspired media appearances.
“I made it kind of a rule,” he said.
“I always brought someone who knew this world.”
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