The Gamechanger Films CEO reflects on the backlash she received in 2015 after arguing on-air with Matt Damon: 'I spoke up and got summarily smacked back down.'
The Gamechanger Films CEO reflects on the backlash she received following a controversial conversation she had on the HBO reality competition in 2015:"I spoke up and got summarily smacked back down."
I’m grateful that it was me. I’m grateful I had the common sense of my ancestors — my mother, my grandmother, my family — to know how to react in the moment because it could have gone many different ways. A lot of the time, most of the time, there aren’t cameras there when you are suffering microaggressions. Take Matt Damon out of it, this is happening every day. People just saw that one conflict, but there were others.
Lee Daniels picked up the phone and called me, “Hey, girl, how are you doing?” I said that I wasn’t doing well, so he used his power and his influence to scoop me up and give me a job at his company. He still had to fight to get me on — even the studio didn’t want me; that is the truth. But Lee doubled down. That’s what often needs to happen, you need someone with power and the courage of their convictions to help.
It’s heartening to see that there is a massive reckoning happening now and it’s multicultural. I feel like people are looking at the history of it all and seeing this is not new, there are just more people watching. Here’s the truth: We’re in a moment and hopefully it’s not a fad. Look at the class photos circulating [published byRichard Rushfield] that show how über white those who have decision-making power are.
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