i was always different. i had always this thing inside me i was going somewhere different. diana provided a very public mobile for defiance and truthfulness. diana was a trailblazer. she found her voice, and i think that s why we continue to care. she had this courage ingrained within her. pre-diana there was zilch interest in the royal family. along comes diana, and boom, it all changes. she was iconic. she was box office. are you going to dance with the princess tonight? she d like me to. it was like having a rock star join the family. there was a kind of sense of an impostor syndrome. i was a very young girl. you see this vulnerability but also this strength. she was very keen to make sure william and harry understood there was a life beyond palace rules. she wanted to help people who were marginalized because as she said to me i m one of them. they were two needy people, and they both needed what the other was unable to give them. there was a
truthfulness. diana was a trailblazer. she found her voice, and i think that s why we continue to care. she had this courage ingrained within her. pre-diana there was zilch interest in the royal family. along comes diana, and boom, it all changes. she was iconic. she was box office. are you going to dance with the princess tonight? she d like me to. it was like having a rock star join the family. there was a kind of sense of an impostor syndrome. i was a very young girl. you see this vulnerability but also this strength. she was very keen to make sure william and harry understood there was a life beyond palace rules. she wanted to help people who were marginalized because as she said to me i m one of them. they were two needy people, and they both needed what the other was unable to give them. there was a tremendous hope in me which was smashed. any marriage prince charles might have made could not have been as strong as the relationship he had w
i was always different. i had always this thing inside me i was going somewhere different. diana was a trailblazer. she found her voice, and i think that s why we continue to care. she had this courage ingrained within her. pre-diana there was zilch interest in the royal family. along comes diana, and boom, it all changes. she was iconic. she was box office. are you going to dance with the princess tonight? she d like me to. it was like having a rock star join the family. there was a kind of sense of an impostor syndrome. i was a very young girl. you see this vulnerability but also this strength. she was very keen to make sure william and harry understood there was a life beyond palace rules. she wanted to help people who were marginalized because as she said to me i m one of them. they were two needy people, and they both needed what the other was unable to give them. there was a tremendous hope in me which was smashed. any marriage prince charl
you started as an intern and then receptionist atjersey films, the production company that made pulp fiction. you went on to be assistant to the co founder and actor and director danny devito. what was that like? and what were your first impressions of the movie business back then? well, the movie business back then was pretty exciting. it was 1995 when i moved here and i went to emerson college and they had this wonderful programme, this internship programme. so that s how i obtained the internship through them. it was fantastic. it was exciting. i mean, like driving onto the. they were, at the time, on the sony lot. so driving on the sony lot, which is the old mgm lot, like, feeling the history of film, and being this kid from newjersey, i couldn t even believe this was happening. and it was so cool because it wasjersey films, too. and i knew. i hadn t met danny right away as an intern, he was off making a film, but he would call the office every day and i would answer the
powerful women in hollywood, now at the helm of one of the movie industry s biggest players warner brothers motion picture group, the ioi year old studio that first brought us the talkies, ushering out the silent movie era with its jazz singer, and the studio behind beloved classics from casablanca to batman. but in recent years, warner s faced challenges, notjust problems caused by covid and strikes by actors and writers, but others of its own making. not least a falling out with director christopher nolan, who took his award winning oppenheimer to universal instead. the company is also now riding high with barbie, the biggest grossing film in the company s history. 50 cool. welcome to the media show. pam abdy, thank you so much for having me on the lot, and hello. just to talk about your career for a little bit first. you started as an intern and then receptionist atjersey films, the production company that made pulp fiction. you went on to be assistant to the co founder