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Friends of Scott Rudin s Late Assistant Speak Out on Producer s Abuses: He Was So Terrified of That Man
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In the wake of Kevin Graham-Caso’s suicide last October, his friends pored over his old emails, looking for answers. Klodiana Alia found one from 2009, when Graham-Caso was working as an assistant to producer Scott Rudin. At the time, Graham-Caso was looking for another job, and Rudin had gotten wind of it.
“He flipped out,” Graham-Caso wrote, “told me to lose his number and that I was dead to him and an enemy of his company and that he hopes I fail in life.”
Hollywood Has Opened Some Doors For Underrepresented TV Writers, But What Comes Next?
Diversity programs have helped more people start their careers. But to build a truly inclusive Hollywood, they need more paths to power.
By Marina Fang
Updated
Jan 29, 2021
For more than a decade, Claudia Forestieri was a reporter and producer for Telemundo, telling stories about Latinx communities around the country, from the Bay Area, to Chicago, to Miami, to Los Angeles, where she now lives. The work was important and meaningful to her. But she began to wonder how she could become a different kind of storyteller: telling more complete stories over a longer timescale.