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The Business

What it’s like to be a Hollywood COVID manager

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Danika Kohler Doman, a production supervisor who has been working as a “COVID manager,” talks about what it’s like to enforce Hollywood’s new coronavirus protocols.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

As Hollywood gets back into production, all sorts of positions are being invented to enforce COVID protocols.

0:12.7

Danica Kohler-Domin is a production supervisor, now grappling with the challenges of being a COVID manager.

0:18.8

She's handled three projects this year, including shoots for Netflix and Sony.

0:23.2

Yeah, it wasn't just down.

0:24.6

You get downed and something happens.

0:26.0

There's so many moving pieces to an industry

0:29.1

that already has a ton of moving pieces.

0:30.8

So you just have to learn how to kind of bring them into the juggle

0:34.9

and think about it all.

0:36.9

And yes, like there's one thing that just can wipe you out.

0:40.5

And we just have no control over it.

0:42.5

Kohler-Domin talks about how she fell into this strange new gig

0:45.5

and talks about some of the pushback she's gotten on set.

0:49.0

But first on the news banter, election night ratings down.

0:53.4

Stick around. It's the business from KCR Election night ratings down. Stick around.

0:55.8

It's the business from KCRW.

1:04.0

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany.

1:04.4

Hello, Matt.

1:05.0

Hi there.

1:10.6

So, things are still fluid as we are talking, but let's just talk a little bit about what happened on

1:11.4

election night and thereafter. Weirdly, perhaps, for an election so closely watched, with so

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