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Thank
you guys for
being here please
don't be censored but
I want to begin
to self edit.
But it is
perhaps maybe we should start on the red carpet because
while it is maybe a place that you don't love
to be it is a place where now the conversation
seems to be shifting with the different campaigns to ask
women.
About more than just beauty and fashion so I'm curious
have things changed on that carpet are you getting different
questions and what do you want to see more of
last
year at the Oscars I was part of the.
Ask for more campaign which I've always said like why
did they ask us about our dresses
when we worked so
hard and I'll just have the dresses are beautiful were
very privileged to wear them it's wonderful to collaborate with
those artists but maybe ask the designers about those dresses.
It's amazing and it's a privilege to get to wear
them but
it's even harder I think to create a performance that
garners enough attention
Value within our business to get an Oscar nomination and
I would love to hear like I was sitting with
Julianne Moore and she was nominated last year and you
know when I asked her about OK night Sir shortcuts
or.
Hey for far from heaven and I thought that's just
a missed opportunity so I think it's great and I'm
definitely seeing a huge change what about you all I'm
going to
do it so I don't i don't feel
it so much but I'm not only probably not as
many of my carpet is you.
As you are they started getting asked it when I
started directing and so that's the only time it would
come up as oh you directed this also or year
in it and you directed it and then I got
to really dive into something of substance other than my
acting.
But yeah if you like
if not no I'm not I'm not
usually ask that so if this year
is that still have metal chapone
Sean Penn which was about.
was a pageant
girl and they always taught us in pageants how to
pay that off something so I'm really good at like
if you're like
you're so funny
I'm like thank you as a matter of fact in
our society today
that he did?
I just kidding around. like if you
don't get a
proper to niti you
have to kind of create it yourself I feel like
right now
there's a time of great change I mean your careers
have dovetailed from where they originally started.
You're producing directing running fashion lines I'm
just curious what it feels
like to be in your business today with these big
bold voices that are now being encouraged to be heard
I think that's Sony hack like sort of
exposing a lot of. Sorry
is yet and a lot of us became more public
conversation because it was we all knew
it we go
we all do but he asked about you know
we never talked about and then it was complete confirmation
and what we already knew is true and.
Gosh
I mean if you could pull back the curtain
on the so many different franchises and things I think
I think you would be like whoa wow I mean
look at it said this is the tragedy of all
time no of course we're all very privileged were all
making.
You know incredible amounts of money and stuff but it's
about it's not.
It's not just about.
My name but it is money drives a lot of
what content is created
and it's about the justification for those inner qualities and
you
know that you that
it's OK for the money to look that way the
source
of where that
belief comes from is what.
Is not OK
yeah
you said you know we're in this culture of change
and I think we're going to culture of conversation so
I don't know that I feel
that change yet but
you feel open
I feel the conversation partially because of the Sony hack
and partially because frankly we now have numbers?
And then backed up all the anecdotes right uh-huh so
anecdotally we've been having these conversations amongst each other for
years but you know you get Geena Davis is Institute
actually put out numbers that can't really be ignored or
talked away.
Man becomes very real the conversation finally so when I
think I think they're embarrassing numbers.
So a man people don't like to be embarrassed.
Yeah I remember this conversation opening when I was on
Housewives and we all decided to negotiate together we were
favored nations and it was the 4 women who are
leaves and then the husbands were like the second tier
and I remember I can't member what year it was
and I won't name names.
I'm always in my eyes are not.
Maybe it would
I remember like there was one of us once we
were like Hey you guys should lobby for us to
get my money and I always thought when would a
man on a lead the league minimum shawgo I think
that the second year women should get a raise like
us.
I thought you know this is called Desperate Housewives
and
we worked really hard to have the pay we had
on that show
I had a moment about 4 years ago where I
got sent.
Crypt having chest awful I'm going to just terrible script
in this male stars starring in it in there was
a girlfriend park and I was like you gotta be
kidding me I had no I'm not understood this well
this actress is chosen at that acteurs chasing at this
show that.
3 Oscar winners and 2 huge box office leading ladies
and I was like oh that's where we're at now
this is where were at fighting to be the girlfriend
in a dumb comedy yeah 4 wat.
And by the way I
was going to do it I was like my job
I gotta do
something so I turn my husband and I was like
this is ridiculous nobody
said it was just goes
honey well what are you like boarding honestly like what
are you doing and I was like you know what.
and he's like you read more books than anybody I
know just want you know in your free time since
when did you buy some books and turn in the
movies and justice like you're like one of them.
You would like to chasing up the same property I
think you've got it.
for support. like yes now that's
right God how great
as opposed
to another my
parents are partnering so maybe she's going.
Hi I'm gonna make me bust little
bit like what's not in a shotty and swim in
our make a meeting 3%
of the captured consumer audience whether you're talking about Walmart
or Amazon or your technique Hulu or Netflix or even
social media Twitter.
They spoke primarily film and by women and they weren't
stories that are told about themselves that studios are actively
pursuing I sit down with more studio heads who have
given. Have a million dollars or $2 Million to a
big male movie start around his company but won't pay
a woman to do the same thing but want to
acquire everything that I'm developing with my own money so
they're like what we love that you're doing it and
will buy it once you've actually spent all the money
in developed it right? But it's like that is so
interesting like a guy that my mother is never heard
of has a million dollar deal at a major studio.
The memory so short because every time there is a
success at the box office onhollywood it'S 0 well that's
because Jennifer Lawrence start in that it's not because girls
really like to go see The Hunger Games or whatever
it is and then they forget and then as soon
as there is a failure it's.
Well that was a movie for women so they didn't
go it's like the pressure
is so much higher
and so much greater and the there's no room to
fail we should be allowed to fail
right it reminds me of this line that
shonda rhimes rhoynar show that his really resonated with.
African Americans is this idea that you have to be
twice as good to get half of what they have
and it's something that most black people that I talked
to when they heard that line it completely resonated with
how they were raised in the messaging that their parents
gave them about that's just the truth and I think
it's the same for women.
You just know that you have to be twice as
good and in a way until
girls don't
have that feeling we will have not done our jobs
like if that's almost the point is to not feel
the pressure to be extraordinary.
Is
you know that's why we
have all these women in Hollywood this when
I love it I love
that we get together and celebrate each other in that
we're doing this
but the need to do
this is the problem like it would be so exciting
when
we're not
have to do this
because?
Equal players at the table
I think part of the thing too I saw this
female directors to you know it's really and I thought
it was interesting you
know as a few male director if your first movie
on the gate is not very good you're definitely going
to get a second here
and there was actually
just now you have a real.
not very good and you know it's terrifying because you
might not work again and we don't get that second
third and fourth and fifth chance to make
it right? Now when also they're not plucking women from
Sundance and saying Hey dress
up archives yeah yeah I know
that I feel like there's a lack of opportunity to
it and varied ground level which is in turn.
girls from different walks of life to tell their stories
to write their stories sometimes I think it's part of
it is like they're not onsets they can't see the
majority of screenwriter mail so I wouldn't write a story
about a man.
don't think like I feel like there's more we need
to have more opportunities for young women to see what
we do my mind
but I had landed
yet right yeah I
feel like if you don't part of me feels like
if you don't touch every rung of the ladder in
this industry.
You wanna set if you want an extra if you
didn't have your not apiai if you don't then it's
hard to you know I'm
going to be a direct are
you have to know how a crew works in range
and all of that and that's what we're lacking with
females is is a pipeline in which where do they
have that first step where can they become a writing
in terms.
I can they be
honest at yeah
for sure do you have examples in your life of
situations that would have been different the outcomes would have
been different had you been a man
in the room. You mean the man
had a man who
had been the man with something have totally gone the
other way I've hadn't crazy
comes but then
I really wonder that
I thought wow I think I
can't believe there even all saying this in
front of Maine.
Yeah I
had I had a
friend say to me once you know care the most
sexist thing that's ever happened to you in the most
racist thing that's ever happened to you you don't even
know about 'cause you weren't in the
room to hear it right.
Oh I've heard a lot.
Yeah that
stuff that would make
people who don't forget.
But now women studios I would
just say to
be there in
a about ageism 20
Hey she's like watching how I have a paper anything
because she just looking
to get jobs is yeah yeah
she'll just do
it yeah. Oh my God
in they say that
the front of you because you're the expectation so
there's
a he'll never go back
and tell the other women 'cause you're the exception we've
allowed to in the room so we can trust you
with this secret and
you laugh along so
that you can be one of the boys.
You should feel grateful.
No reason the films that you've produced is there one
that's very close to your heart in terms of what
it taught you or what you accomplished with it and
will wild
is my first.
Real phone that I produced when I restarted my company
and it was
just sort of a new
it's more reflective of who I really am than any
other phone I've ever done so it was very wrong
with very personal.
Um and it was I was so determined that we
may do it in a way that I knew that
if I took it to a traditional studio route they'd
be like she's not very likable she has
allowed yeah.
And they don't want to see where you do drugs
that you hear that all the time like when I
was coming up in my car we don't want serious
curse we don't like to see
Reese do anything she
like she's like well so she would never have sex
with a married man or anything like that in the
course of storytelling it always like.
Cut your character down to nothing so the depth of
the character is so important to me in creating something
that's how women really talk and there are experiences they
really have an.
It was really interesting how well received it was and
how well it did and then.
but was it the highest reviewed movies of the year
last year not in the Oscar consideration at all for
best picture which was you know it's like.
At the time I was like.
I was like oh OK OK well it's
one of the best
refute films of the
year but it's not
talk with Ken oh
man it's just you know it's just that
I looked at was like what are any of the
top 10 movie starring woman none.
at this year we have 2 which is better but
not great and sometimes I just wonder if like oh
girl who's not the the wife of or the girlfriend
of like
the excess cerise
yeah and I was reading something the other day about
the smurfette principle which ever heard of those no one.
And which is there's only one woman taeri why
does not make it through Kansas
ever Dean is the biggest
female superstar
in the last 3 years and she gets not
one but 2 boys. She's
going to too but how many coming
up where you the only girl standing on South I
have a
feeling that I reacted I will never get away today
if you are people talking I never about all going
this to stuff work with because anyone it's so I'm
not really actually about the excited amount of that.
women we need the movies right it's about the depth
of character and end that we have real lives
to mention how it nothing
to do with our romantic.
Entanglements or dilemmas bring back some things are better jobs
sometimes we're doing things that are untoward you know it's
there's just a whole spectrum of female emotion that isn't
represented in film in any way.
I think TV does a much better job at that
even the way women relate to each other we rarely
ever see it in film and that that's a mistake
for our daughters for our sons.
For you know if we are the storytellers of our
generation we have to start not talking doing and do
it anyway you can you know yeah.
So this
whole idea of likability in how people studio execs and
Sadie will Reese can't do anything like that because she
has to be this way
and that kind of wild out of the studio system
because I didn't want.
down to like milk toast right she's going
on a day hike.
But there was a boy
that I only was scared I've going to be never
there.
done
anything so there's things I've done coz it in a
certain way you are kept in kind of a.
A wonderful little box Hey kath was great yeah but
I know I was tired of doing.
don't let you know in a certain point you wake
up here like I've done a lot of stuff in
my life but what do what I want to do
like what movies do I want to make what television
shows that I want to put into the world because
it's a lot of work.
So I feel like I've done all that other work.
would you let it and then
good thing about me with it with social
media is like there's always
the next new thing and I'm
exhausted because I would do it was like to Facebook
and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat now and then Paris
coping I and I curse remember.
Kerry every Monday when I'm live tweeting is she really
made
that
you know a thing of lightning interacting with fans and
let's have a conversation so
that sounds like
to eat it it's so much work I'm looking
very.
I have no idea I known We live and tweeting
then.
if I don't I got this morning at
the live tweet at somebody's like why don't you Periscope
that I might back yet.
You're mad my screen.
is useful especially
that I do a lot of activism and so for
me.
You got
to curat your channels
like people go to you for certain things and I
think you get kind of be all over the place
you took your it what you're putting out and people
know they come to my feed there's going to
be something on there that.
So as
donate or look at this foundation and read this article
or this aside from watch my show.
It is great when you know where you are in
this world yeah
it took me
awhile to figure out who I am and what I
want to say but now I don't know why I'm
pretty I'm pretty
clear yeah Yep
haven't khasiana liberation but
I mean.
And it's I think it's empowering
and it connects me all these amazing women yeah well
I wonder how it would have been if you were
available to you at the start career Young like actresses
they are for.
you just started it do it that when
I understand yeah I
really smart young actress at me I'm not I'm not
know what I want to say that yet so I'm
afraid
that's a better one
misstep it's
gone viral.
Yeah I know in
a world in which we have to be edited you
know politically
correct it
there's a lot of missteps you can easily make that
people just are waiting and watching it with that sucks
but I have said I had
a remote. There I said that something was my spirit
animal animal.
I didn't know I didn't know that that wasn't OK
I
would never say that used
to say spirit animal really offensive to indigenous communities the
First Nation communities you
didn't
know no clue what was great was that somebody was
like that's not OK to say and I was like
why.
And they told me an then I got to say
wow thank
you all so
now I know
and intend to go like I'm humanure
human we're all learning
together.
Uh-huh right right
right definitely but do you feel like the current's been
pulled back or because of the social media or you
can control it so you're not you're curating you're in
charge
my feels so much less.
Bonnabel oh really I used to yeah there was so
much tabloids right so minimum saying all kinds of wrong
things right and I feel like it's almost all
gone on
it still happens but
it's like. In my kind
of really selliers yeah but
yeah I kinda
don't wanna more it's not
I know as I get a load in which you
have a good life too yeah I
ever relationship with my
family and
they know that there's a certain way that I don't
talk about my personal life.
So if they want
to engage with that other BS that's
fine but over here
this is what we're doing this is my world this
is my voice and if you want
to be at this party
these are the rules of this party.
I am curious about endorsements and kind of the calculus
on how those work and how you kind of the
decisions you make on
what you're going to
be the face of. an opinion about something you're
going to endorse and I think you have to do
what's right for you I
think it has to
fill authentic and that has to feel
to you yeah
because? You know again it's a lot of time and
it's your unlike active in this is you I'm not
hiding behind a character this is me saying hi associate
myself my name my life with this product and I
know in the beginning like I've been really blessed if
I can with my bottle for 10 years and that's
been a beautiful ambassador relationship but.
In this latest round in my career my life when
neutrogena came to me I said you know what if
we're going to do this I have to have a
voice
in the company not unlike
what we're talking about in terms of like I can't
just be a phase I just can't just.
Kind of get up there and sell product I have
to feel like I'm really part of the community that
makes decisions in this company and we carved out a
creative consultant relationship that had never happened at the company
before because I also.
I when I looked at their cosmetics they were not
representing a range of shades that were right for everybody
and I was like how do I save it and
I said unless we partner to expand what's available so
that any girl can walk into a drug store and
get this product that's healthy and beautiful and all of
that bike I can. Can't authenticate lycee this is what
I love it even though there is great
products
to keep your skin healthy like how do I say
this is the make up for me when it's literally
not
the make up for it right
so that's exciting for me is to have a policeman
day
and that's why I love.
having you as a particularly beautiful ambassador for
them
last question tell me what role you really
want to play what person you really what character you
really want to portray what.
She real human being either from the past or current
that you would really want to portray Tom Hanks.
Hi I'm joy in
my life
I would like
to meet him fund yes
why
not really getting
a lot of a good
idea that's awesome
which is a shame he
should be
James Bond. happy birthday
presents.
Well thanks. Imagine you don't know you actually
don't I'm so
excited I'm
not pretty enough Ghostbusters that's like
I know that's the
way it's really funny um you
Kerry
I.
We feel like when people I don't know I don't
have an answer to that question I mean the people
whose careers I really admire a man I should find
mails in this category but our people like you know
cicely Tyson or you know she's 91
and you want one I have any
I'm Broadway like I want to
be able to do what I looked to do for
as long as I want to do it
and. And so I don't ever want there to be
like that one
roll right 'cause I
just want the mountains to keep being climbed in for
the levels to keep being raised you
know. Yeah it's really fun to go like this and
it's really not funding.
Yeah that's all
this not so much all the way.
There's little morning this minor further away.
it
what is the thing in the universe ain't got up
and she's speaking and she said you know I've been
at the front of the best and I'm going to
the back of the best
but all I want is just tell you ladies it's
just staying with us yeah
I'm an do
man. you have my
heart.
Or a male person
I'm glad I don't know I think scum and then
I'm like Oh my God do that with like no
running burning passion I have a couple of things coming
up and I'm really excited about that
are real person or
like I wish I wish there were more historical stories
that women.
Because it wasn't on
a picture I don't know
if you don't love you so much
money like there's always a World War 2 movie about
a dude
on my God we don't let me yet again this
is my history of the world email spy but now
I need anymore Joe and broke their stories down.
But I mean you see
the whole spinies in like half of
it as women during halftime exactly
and I'm like I haven't heard any of those stories
I really
love I pitched a. Civil rights movie based on the
women who fought in the civil war and her
dressed as
men who cut their hair there were black women who
who cut their hair fought and voted.
Because
that's how you
know motivated they were and these stories were written and
we kept pushing it everywhere first of all you are
is on the civil war and I got nobody's
done this if no
ones know my son brods
then we'll get it was just.
the way there was a Latina immigrant very rich norlands
who was
proslavery
and she funded a lot of the things that I
was like wow that would be crazy to play
right we don't know
that. Woman who is like you are a person of
color as well and yet you're on the wrong side
we could not sell it.
We're going to make that ladies make it
but I've never have an answer that question because
I feel like
I do wish there were more bio pics of some
fascinating women that aren't you are Amelia
earhart
sanded like those women are amazing and great but like
there's so many other.
Well there is
sanitized mostly I
think it's I'm more
interested in the
less sanitized versions.