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The Business

Actress Sarah Scott on SAG-AFTRA in the Me Too era.

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Scott was a working actress in Hollywood with the usual ups and downs of a life in the entertainment industry. But, last year while shooting a pilot, Scott says she was harassed and assaulted by a fellow actor. She took the case to her union and the result was not completely satisfying. 

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:04.7

I think that given the environment and the movement that had already been well underway and being publicized, gave me a certain amount of courage and strength to say, you know what, the time is now.

0:16.7

You know, why now would I not say something?

0:19.7

In May of 2018, actress Sarah Scott was shooting an intimate scene for a TV pilot when she

0:26.0

says she was assaulted by a fellow actor.

0:28.4

Scott knew almost immediately that she wanted to report him, but the options of where to report

0:33.0

were limited.

0:33.9

So she turned to her union, SAG-AFTRA.

0:36.2

But from the start, she says the guild seemed uncertain how to proceed, even when a second

0:40.5

accuser came forward.

0:42.2

The SAG-A-FTA ultimately found the actor guilty.

0:45.0

The penalty was not much.

0:47.4

We talked to Scott about her struggle to be heard and her hope that the union will do

0:51.1

better in the future.

0:52.0

But first on the news banter, HBO takes back the Emmy

0:55.2

nominations crown from Netflix. For now, anyway. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

1:03.4

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

1:08.1

Hi there. So, obviously obviously the Emmy nominations are out.

1:11.8

Stepping back from the who got snubbed, who didn't get snubbed. I mean, there were some great,

1:15.8

great stuff nominated. There were things I wanted to see nominated that weren't, that there were

1:19.2

things I was very pleasantly surprised. And I just was overall impressed with the wealth of

1:24.0

great television right now. And people were happy to see things like Fleabag, getting so many

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