Michael Chabon; Scott Rudin
The Pulitzer Prize winner claims the producer treated staff with what I would call a careful, even surgical contempt, like a torturer trained to cause injuries that leave no visible marks.
Screenwriter Michael Chabon, a longtime collaborator of Scott Rudin, is speaking out in the wake of
The Hollywood Reporter s April 7 cover story on allegations made against the producer.
In a column on Medium shared on Friday, Chabon writes that he regularly collaborated with Rudin including the 2000 film adaptation of one of Chabon s novels
Wonder Boys and
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and, by doing so, worked with and got to know many of his employees a generation of them from the VPs, to the researchers, to the assistants who worked the phones including Kevin Graham-Caso , whose brother revealed he committed suicide following years of struggle with PTSD. He was a sweetheart and it was a gut-punch to learn
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, screenwriter, and
Star Trek: Picard showrunner, has published a 1,400 word
mea culpaon Medium called Apology of a Rudin Apologist. It sheds light on what an open secret in Hollywood looks like.
Chabon says he collaborated with Rudin for 20 years, and while he never saw any of the smashed hands or people getting pushed out of cars as detailed in
THR s report, he knew enough. He describes the EGOT-winner s treatment of his staff as a careful, even surgical contempt, like a torturer trained to cause injuries that leave no visible marks. With a novelist s eye he describes Rudin hurling a pencil at an assistant s head eraser end first.
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