Female Inclusion On Set of Where the Crawdads Sing Hello Sunshine beams again! By Sarah El-Mahmoud Over the past decade, Reese Witherspoon has transitioned from being solely an actress to a building larger producer role in her own Hello Sunshine company. As a producer, the Legally Blonde actress isn’t only working more behind the scenes, she’s been ushering in more inclusion of female…
Constance Wu Opens Up About Mental Health Struggles By Zoe Christen Jones Actress Constance Wu returned to social media Thursday after an almost three year absence, opening up about her struggles with online bullying and the effect it had on her mental health. Wu said that backlash from a “careless” post she made on Twitter about her show’s renewal resulted in her…
The Business Of Being Jennifer Aniston By Molly Fitzpatrick Jennifer Aniston’s is the face that launched a thousand ad campaigns. The actress America first fell in love with for her performances on screens small and large has become even more ubiquitous in advertising: Flip through a magazine and you might see her clutching a bottle of Smartwater. Turn on the TV…
Taylor Swift’s Push to Change Music Ownership (This is a transcript of an episode of “The Journal” from Tuesday, November 16, 2021. The Journal is a co-production from Gimlet Media and The Wall Street Journal.) In 2019, Taylor Swift announced she would re-record her first six albums after they fell into the hands of talent agent Scooter Braun. Last week…
This Year, Cannes Had A Record Number of Female Filmmakers By Elsa Keslassy and Brent Lang Here’s the good news. Facing public pressure and mounting outrage over the lack of female representation among the filmmakers it chooses to celebrate, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is making efforts to diversify beyond the cavalcade of many of the same male auteurs. Instead, there will…
Juneteenth: 15 TV Shows, Albums, Films, Podcasts, & Books Delve into stories that offer a multifaceted look at what it means to be Black in America By Gemma Acheampong and Sophie Yarin Juneteenth commemorates the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned that they had been freed, June 19, 1865, more than two years after the…
Funding For Women In Film: New Study Peels Off Layers Of Inequity By Nelson Granados It is well understood that the media and entertainment industry has a long way to go to achieve equal representation among men and women, for example in acting and studio executive roles. A new study extends this unfortunate reality by showing how funding for women-owned businesses in…
Actresses In Their 40s Are Finally Getting Interesting Roles By Helen Lewis In 2019, a 60-year-old Emma Thompson explained her sudden career renaissance. She had spent her youth playing romantic leads, but once she turned 40, she said, she could fill such roles only “in a pinch.” The offers became more limited, the parts smaller: a batty clairvoyant in the Harry Potter series; a wronged…
Behind the Scenes: Mental Health & The Entertainment Industry By Jennifer Leff, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, in New York, NY No doubt, the pandemic has impacted most industries. However, the entertainment industry was the first to shut down and will be the last to fully re-open. Entertainment industry workers, specifically those behind the scenes, have long experienced mental health challenges and stereotypically, haven’t easily…
Asian, Pacific Islanders Lack Representation in Hollywood By David Oliver Asian and Pacific Islanders are scarcely represented in the film industry, according to a new study – and the numbers are more concerning when broken down by gender and sexual orientation. Research from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found just 44 films featured an Asian or Pacific Islander lead or co-lead, 14 of which…
