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The Business

Krista Vernoff and Janis Hirsch on sexual harassment in Hollywood

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Two women who have carved out great careers in Hollywood share their stories of sexual harassment. Comedy writer Janis Hirsch and Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff talk about what they've had to put up with and their hope that the culture will finally change.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.7

I was absolutely in tears every single day.

0:07.9

You try to be brave and you try to talk yourself out of it and you know you shouldn't.

0:12.7

But when people are being that in your face, I don't know how else to react.

0:19.1

It's like somebody picked up the rug in a beautiful room and found rotten mold underneath it.

0:25.6

We're all sick and we don't even know it.

0:28.5

And there's an opportunity now to clean out the mold.

0:32.3

Comedy writer Janice Hirsch and Gray's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff are two of the many

0:37.3

women who have come forward in the wake of Harvey Weinstein's downfall to share their own accounts of gender bias and sexual harassment in Hollywood.

0:45.4

They talk about what they've had to put up with and why they hope the culture will finally change.

0:50.8

But first on the news banter, the fallout continues.

0:54.0

Stay tuned. It's the business from

0:55.5

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

1:05.3

Hi there. So we are still talking. This show is going to be about today the ongoing aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein

1:13.1

allegations. And first of all, I will mention Harvey Weinstein has just sued his former company

1:19.8

for reasons that are not entirely clear, but I guess hoping to get his money's worth out of that

1:25.5

company at some point. So there's a tremendous debacle

1:29.1

going on at the Weinstein company and how it ends, I don't know, but my money's on chapter 11.

1:34.3

And, you know, the important thing from a cultural point of view is that a lot of people asked you,

1:38.9

asked me when we were on television doing interviews about this stuff, is this the turning point?

1:43.1

And I have said many times, I'm not sure.

1:45.4

But one thing that keeps it alive is when people are still talking about, it's still coming forward.

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