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probably around 2011
i read this terrible terrible script it
was just
misogynistic and rude about women and i
called my
agent and i said i i'm not doing this
this is
i can't do this and she said every
actress in hollywood wants this part
basically hollywood at a certain point
stopped developing movies with women as
central characters
i remember going home stomping around
the house calling my mom
calling all my friends in the industry
going this is ridiculous
how do i meet women where they're at
with the stories they want to hear right
now
and my husband is my biggest champion
and he was like you read more books than
anybody
why don't you start optioning some books
and so the first two books i optioned
were wild and gone girl
and we made those movies within the
first year
and that's where hella sunshine began
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i have a really interesting relationship
with the word power power
has felt like something that's existed
in hollywood for a long time it has
really been
abused and and used as a way to keep
other people out
so i think it's really interesting as we
started building our leadership team at
hello sunshine
the importance of sharing leadership how
do we defer
power how do we defer responsibility to
each other
to create a different kind of hollywood
we look at what doors have been closed
to women to people of color to lgbtq
plus individuals to differently abled
people
we try to look at these industries and
ways that we can open doors
it's not just the movies you make right
it's not about the end product it's
how you make it and whose voices you
want to amplify because i don't want
people who come up after me to look at
this industry as a closed door business
as it was when i started streaming has
really
encouraged audiences to be advocates for
what they really want to see
we love data i'm such a data nerd
there's empirical data right now
that that comes from these streaming
services that
women consume media people of color
consume media there was this fallacy
before we were told
oh yeah well we only make one
movie with a woman at the center because
people don't go see them or you'd hear
black films don't play well
overseas it's just not true
oh my god what have i done
when wild came out that was radical just
a woman
alone in a movie also sleeping with
multiple partners
also using drugs it was like whoa
culture is evolving so fast that we got
from there to
when they see us to to i may destroy you
there's been an evolution you know and i
think you have to
keep evolving right so things that
seemed revolutionary seven
years ago are not the revelation and the
revolution
if you shift one mind or one heart
that's all there is and that's what i
want to put on film
at hello sunshine we are definitely
about optimism
about hope we had to circle the wagons
during quarantine and go
what are people going to want to see
after quarantine and i
personally think people are going to
want to laugh i think people are going
to want to see romance
they're going to want to believe in
reinvention rebirth
so we you know we kind of invested in
those stories during that time and so
i'm
really excited about everything that's
coming out next
if i thought about all the people who
would hate the things i did
it would me to be honest i'm
having an
out-of-body experience i never thought
i'd be on the cover of time
ever in my life it makes me want to cry
um and i can't believe that this is like
who i've like evolved into i never
thought anybody would think my ideas
were
important or meaningful
representation matters seeing women in
leadership position matters
it just matters
you