Wouldn’t it be fun if Dolly Parton came to her?” Initially, we were like, “Let’s see if there’s any world where we can get Dolly Parton.” So we did go out to her. We thought, “Well, she’s hungry and she’s tired, and she’s trying her best to write Girls5eva a hit. And I think another writer, Chelsea Devantez, knew that she gets up really early or in the middle of the night, and we thought, “OK, if we put these two things together, we could create this kind of fugue state for Dawn to try to emulate the greatest songwriter in the world, Dolly Parton.” The whole writers’ room, we’re all super fans of Dolly Parton, we love her. I remembered from watching, I think it was Dolly Parton on Letterman or something like that, that she sometimes fasts when she writes music. turn that on its head and give Dawn this crazy experience and have her own version of a genius montage, only to kind of fall on her face a little bit, because it’s her first time writing as a songwriter. They just like sit there and smoke a cigarette and stare at a canvas and then have an inspirational montage, and then they’re a genius. I feel like in movies, often, there’s this stroke of genius, and then the person’s a genius forever. We didn’t want Dawn to be like, “I’m a songwriter!” and then write an amazing song. TVLINE | Can you take me back to the origins of the idea for this storyline and cameo? Girls5eva Review: Peacock's Delightful Girl Group Comedy Is 2 Good 2 Miss Girls5eva Premiere: Grade Peacock's Tina Fey-Produced Musical Comedy

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