Photo Illustration: Matthew Peyton/Getty Images; JeffKravitz/Filmmagic Everyone Just Knows He s an Absolute Monster : Scott Rudin s Ex-Staffers Speak Out on Abusive Behavior
by Tatiana Siegel
April 07, 2021, 6:00am PDT
Even as other Hollywood bullies are being sidelined, the uber-producer behind The Social Network and Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird has been given a pass for his volcanic temper. Now, former employees open up about a boss who left many traumatized: It was a new level of unhinged.
On a brisk Halloween day in 2012, the thin facade of normalcy at Scott Rudin Productions shattered. Literally.
At about 4:15 p.m. more than 10 hours into a typical Rudin day that began at 6 and never wrapped before 8 the Oscar-winning producer was enraged that one of his assistants failed to get him a seat on a sold-out flight. In a fit of fury, he allegedly smashed an Apple computer monitor on the assistant s hand. The screen shattered, leaving the young man bleeding