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

Director Anish Chaganty wanted an actress who really uses a wheelchair to star as a teenage girl with a disability in his new thriller run.

Columbia University student Kira Allen had a strong audition, but could she do action?

Alan channeled her inner salon. I put, you know,

gonna fly now, the Rocky theme song in the background, and I shot this like 30 second video and

sent it to them. I was running on my arm bike. I was like doing boxing moves and stuff,

just to basically be like, oh my God, please give me this part. Run, now streaming on Hulu,

is the first thriller to star an actor who uses a wheelchair

since the 1940s.

Alan and director Anish Chaganty tell us about shifting away

from an ableist perspective to make run,

which tells the story of a mother-daughter relationship

gone very, very awry.

But first, the news banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt.any. Hello, Matt. Hello. So, Matt,

MGM has been seen as a very ripe target for a takeover. For some time now, Gary Barber,

the former chief executive, actually was supposedly gearing up for a sale in 2018. However, Gary

Barber was pushed out of the company, and the company has been in a bit of chaos ever since.

And the reason for that, as I wrote in a recent piece for the Hollywood Reporter, seems to be largely due to Mark Burnett, the reality producer.

Now, as you know, Matt, Mark Burnett is legendary.

He is the greatest reality producer, arguably ever. He had Survivor. He had The

Apprentice, which we can talk about some more. He had the voice. He has many, many hits,

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