From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Laverne Cox made history as the first transgender person nominated for an acting Emmy for her role in Orange is the New Black.

She's been a vocal advocate for trans representation on screen, and last year, she executive produced and appeared in the Netflix documentary Disclosure.. Today we revisit our conversation with Cox about that film,

which explores Hollywood's often negative portrayal of trans people,

though sometimes film portrayals were perhaps unintentionally inspiring.

I don't know if the filmmakers had a black, trans,

gender not-conforming kid in Mobile, Alabama in mind when they conceived of Yantel.

I don't know if I was the target demographic for that.

But like the disidentification that happened for me where I saw my story and I saw myself and this character is something that like LGBTQI people have been doing

for a very long time. Cox and Disclosure director Sam Fader talk about hiring an almost all trans

crew to make their documentary disclosure, which is now a finalist for a Peabody Award. But first,

banter time. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my fellow in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, Matt, we've talked about the fact. It is a huge story this year that WarnerMedia is being

merged with Discovery, which, as we all know, is a purveyor of a lot of reality,

and that David Zaslov, who is the chief executive at Discovery, is going to be running this combined

entity. A very, very unlikely development. Normally, Hollywood would be like, who is this, not just a TV guy running, you know,

legacy property of WarnerMedia, but a reality TV guy, like, let us try to kill him. But these

people have been so miserable under the so-called stewardship of AT&T, which is universally, I think,

seen as a terrible failure, that they are just, please come in and save us from this.

The problem is they can't come in right away, David Zaslov and whatever he intends to do,

because there's going to be a year or more of federal review, you know, antitrust considerations and so on.

Zaslov has a hope to expedite this because both companies have been

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