- Hey, Pat. - Hi.
- It's "Vogue."
Do you have a second to answer 73 questions?
- Sure. - Great.
What's your favorite ice cream? - Chocolate.
- I have to say chocolate.
- Name one piece of advice your parents always gave you.
- Always be yourself. - To always be myself.
- What's your favorite thing to do on the weekend?
- Spend time with my boyfriend.
- Spend time with my boyfriend, Streeter.
Oh, hi, honey. - Hey, there she is.
- Oh, God, Mom. Pull away. Keep moving.
- All right. Heels or flats?
- Flats. - Flats.
- Nice, can you name
the three most important people in your life?
- My kids.
- That would be my kids, of course.
Oh, here's one of them now. - Hey, Mom.
I just came by to ask what your favorite basketball team is.
- The Nets. - The Nets.
Because my son Chasey is now a part owner of the team.
- Yep. Go Nets.
- Oh, here's another one of my sons.
- Hey, Mom. I was wondering.
What's your favorite movie of all time?
- "Night Nurse." - "Night Nurse."
Wait, what's "Night Nurse"? - Ugh, cut!
Mom, just repeat everything I say,
otherwise this is gonna take forever.
- Okay, honey. But what is "Night Nurse?"
- It's the movie Cary just got cast in.
- Wait, what? - Whoa, man!
- I didn't know that.
- That's so cool, Cary. - Yeah.
It's just this little indie movie,
but I have, like, six scenes.
- Oh, CareBear! That's amazing.
I am so proud of you, honey.
- So she gets to kiss him a lot.
- And the Deadline article came out today too,
so it's like actually real.
Yeah, it's got my picture and everything. Look.
- Oh, my gosh!
I need to Instagram this on my phone.
Brooke, I have Instagram right? And a phone?
- Yeah. But you have to do it later
'cause right now we have to finish this "Vogue" thing
before everything else you have today,
so let's all reset.
And, Streeter, this time, don't try to fuck her.
- Thank you for the note.
- Cary, you're in a movie!
- Why are you walking so slow? - 'Cause.
Shuli invited me to go hear her speak on a women's panel.
- Oh, God. Why? Is she mad at you?
- I don't know, but she helped me get
"30 Under 30," so I feel like I have to go
and just sit in the audience and nod like,
"Yes, women, I understand."
- Oh, this is Curtis.
Well, don't be late because those are the people
who have to sit up front and ask the audience questions.
- Oh, fuck!
- Hello?
- Can't believe I know someone on Deadline.
I'm famous! Just take it.
- I know. Isn't this crazy?
God, I knew I was good.
I got the third role Mackenzie sent me out for.
- We should go out and get some drinks. Celebrate.
- Sorry, I can't. I'm going to a hospital
on Staten Island to shadow a real nurse.
- Because you are an actor
and you are putting in the "whork." I love that.
- Yeah. It's my first real role.
I wanna get it right. Do a good job.
- I'd love to play a nurse. Or a patient.
Or better yet, a patient's wife who's told
that she can't go in there, but god damn it,
that is her husband and no one is stopping her.
So like when do you get to meet Patricia Arquette?
- I don't know.
I mean, most of my scenes are with Beanie Feldstein.
I only have one with Patricia. - Unreal.
Also, now that you guys are peers,
you have to start calling her Patty.
And Beanie Feldstein is Beans.
So that way when you wrap, you can post an Instagram like,
"Missing my little film family, Patty and Beans."
Okay. I gotta go. I think I'm getting fired.
- Am I going out first? - It's you first.
- Hey, Shuli. I just wanted to peek my head in,
let you see that I came,
because I found a seat so far in the back that--
- Brooke, shut up! You're late. This is the last one.
- Oh, great. - Wait, what?
- So there's six of you on the panel,
you're being introduced last.
It's three hours long with one break.
A moderator is going to ask questions first
and then open it up to the audience.
- Wait, I'm so sorry. I'm on the panel?
- Hello and welcome
to the fifth annual Women's Empowerment Series.
I'm your moderator, Phoebe McInerny Purmont.
And I am thrilled to introduce today's panelists.
Publicist and Senior VP of Principle Records,
Shuli Rockefeller Kucerac.
Human Rights Lawyer, Dalia Solomon King.
COO of the Women's Chance Initiative,
Rhadika Kamini Patel.
Filmmaker and winner of the 2019 Palme d'Or,
Vivianne de Baubigny.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book,
"Everything You Think You Know About Feminism
Is Wrong," Ranessa Boley Braun.
And one of "Variety" magazine's Top 10 Creative Directors,
Brooke Dubek.
- Hi. Yes.
I am--ready to articulate my thoughts on women's issues
into a mic-- for all to hear.
- Mr. Guttierez, hello.
- Where am I? - You're in the hospital.
You had a little accident, but you're fine.
I'm Nurse Akiyama. I'll be taking good care of you today.
- And I'm Cary.
I'm shadowing her for a movie with Patty Arquette.
- Okay.
- I'm gonna take your blood pressure now, Mr. Guttierez.
- This is so great to see.
And you would do this the same at night, right?
- Yes.
- Yeah. Great, great, great.
- Okay. That's all for now. I'll be back in a bit.
- All right. What now?
Do we assist in surgery, or-- 'cause I can handle blood.
My character is covered in it for most of the movie.
I can't tell you whose though.
You're gonna have to buy a ticket.
- No, now we go enter
all of Mr. Guttierez's information into Excel.
- Oh.
My character doesn't really use Excel.
- So first we type in "Guttierez comma Juan."
And see this cell here?
We highlight this cell. - Mm.
- This next question's for Brooke.
According to this year's Global Gender Gap Report,
the U.S. ranks below Canada, Sweden,
and even Serbia in terms of gender equality.
As a woman, what do you see as this country's
biggest hurdle on its march towards parity?
- Wow. What an excellent question.
Pass.
- Oh, okay.
Let's move on to a question for Rhadika.
Rhadika, you run a nonprofit focused on
eradicating female homelessness.
But what do you do for fun?
- Well, could've done this one. - I hang out with friends.
I go on hikes.
I recently made it a rule where I don't work on Sundays.
I think it's really important to take time for yourself--
- Oh, yeah. Not me. No. I never stop working for women.
I am always constantly organizing, fighting,
marching in the streets.
- Oh, wow. What marches specifically?
- Pass.
- Mr. Guttierez?
Mr. Guttierez?
I'm up. I'm up.
Hey, Mackenzie. I was wondering if I could get
the number of the costume people for the movie.
'Cause I was thinking maybe my character has glasses.
Call me back.
Hey, Curtis.
What do we got? What do we go--
- Where the fuck have you been?
We have a Code Blue. 49-year-old white female.
Gunshot wound to the lower abdomen.
She's being prepared for surgery now.
Let's go!
- So the thing about being a woman is...
- What set of women... - Do you understand...
- The female experience... - For me as a woman...
- A woman. - Woman.
- And, Brooke, what do you think?
- Well, you know,
feminism is about...
equality.
Are we good so far?
Okay. Okay.
But you know, it's also about so much more.
It's about...
Pass.
- And as a woman, I feel that you should be able
to answer this question as well, so--
Brooke? - Hmm?
- I'm asking the panelists what TV shows they're watching.
- Oh, okay.
- By female show runners.
All of them. - Okay.
Now it's time for a quick break.
- Oh, my God. - I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I don't really work here.
I'm just shadowing and wanted to try on the costumes.
- Oh, cool. I'm shadowing too.
- Wait, what?
- Yeah. I found these in the lockers earlier.
But--you believed me? That--that all sounded real?
- Oh, my God.
So real. - Thanks.
I'm playing a doctor on "911."
I have three scenes with Angie Bassett.
It's gonna be my first time seeing myself on TV.
- Oh, yeah. No, it's my first role too.
I'm playing a nurse in "Night Nurse."
- Nurse Louis? - Yeah.
- Congrats. Want help running lines?
- Yeah, sure.
- Cool. God, hospitals are so fun.
Yeah.
- Hey, I need a friend favor.
I'm on this women's panel and I have no idea
what the fuck I am doing.
Can you come ask me an easy question?
- I was literally about to call you and ask you the same thing.
I'm on this Minorities in Fashion panel
and all I've said is, "Pass."
- Me too.
- My last question was if fashion can be seen
as a form of rebellion
against our country's immigration policies.
I don't know, man. I just like clothes.
- Ugh, great. Now I'm stressed for you too.
Why did Shuli ask me to do this?
Is she mad at me?
- Hey, Brooke Dubek.
I'm Shauna. I'm in the audience.
I just wanted to say I'm really enjoying the panel.
- Okay. Thanks. It's nice to meet you.
- I can't wait for the second half.
See out there, I guess.
- Are you okay? You look rough.
- I haven't been drinking, if that's what you're asking.
How is she? - The test came back.
It's not good.
Her organs are failing.
- I'm gonna tell her.
- Don't you think we should wait for the doctor to do that?
- Louis, how long have you been a nurse here?
Three weeks? I'm telling her.
- Yes. Just tell me. I am dying!
- Oh, no, ma'am. Sorry. Sorry.
We're just running lines for a movie I'm in.
You're totally fine.
You're, um...
you know, it is a little bit like the scene.
- Why are you upsetting this patient?
We can't have another complaint.
We are this close to being shut down.
- I'm so sorry. - Oh, great.
So that was believable?
I'm playing a hospital administrator
on "The Good Doctor."
Just shadowing for the day.
- Oh, cool. - We're shadowing too.
- Oh, yeah. You're in "Night Nurse," right?
Oh, I saw on Deadline. Congrats.
- Thank you. Thanks.
Oh, that's my agent. Sorry, I got to take this.
I asked about glasses for my character.
- Ooh, I should do that.
- Hey, Mackenzie, how's it going?
Did you get my message? Uh-huh.
The funding was pulled.
Patty dropped out.
Needs more time with the family.
The movie's off.
- Um, code blue.
I think for real code blue.
- And that's why the fight for abortion rights
really dates back to 400 BC or even 500 BC.
- Maybe even 600 BC. - Oh, no.
I wouldn't go that far.
- I was joking. - All right.
Let's take another question.
- Hi, my question's for Brooke.
Hey, Brooke. We just met in the bathroom.
- Oh, right.
Hi. Hey, girl.
Hi.
- Do you remember my name?
- Oh. Oh, my God. I'm--
I'm so sorry. No.
- Oh, kinda weird to say that you're pro-woman,
then not remember a woman's name that you just met.
It's Shauna.
- Okay. Well, I was on the phone,
and I was a little distracted, so I guess I just don't--
I just don't see why that's anti-woman.
But I'm sure these ladies can all tell me why it was.
- Actually, I agree with you, Brooke.
It's not anti-woman
to not remember every single woman's name.
- It's not? - No, but to call you out on it
in front of all these people is kind of a bitch move.
- Yes, I would also categorize that as a bitch move.
- It's sort of the bitch move.
- So I said something right?
On the panel?
- Um, actually, I agree with Shauna.
Brooke Dubek is anti-woman. And I can prove it.
- Cary?
Cary?
- Where am I? - You're in the hospital.
- Am I shooting "Night Nurse?"
- No, I think the funding was pulled.
That's what you said before you passed out.
Is there anything else I can do to make you more comfortable?
- Just kill me. Pull the fucking plug.
- Ooh, can I do it?
My character actually does it twice on "New Amsterdam."
She's kind of a psycho.
- So I met Brooke at a restaurant.
And I said I was a singer
and that she should follow me on Insta.
And she did, and then a few days later,
she unfollowed me out of nowhere.
- Okay, well,
I was eating pasta and you just came up to me
and basically forced me to follow you.
So I did. I was trying to be nice.
- Wait, you two are strangers? - Yes.
- Okay, well, it's not actually anti-woman
to not wanna follow a woman you don't know on Instagram
for the rest of your life.
- And I tried too. I followed her for like a week.
That's longer than I followed Jameela Jamil.
She goes to a concert like every day.
- Ugh! You don't wanna see Miley Cyrus in concert?
A woman? - No.
No, that is not why.
Ugh, I wish I could show you guys.
Is there a way I could just plug my phone into this thing?
- So first we type in "Dubek comma Cary."
Is this the worst day of my life?
- Ugh!
- Sir, you need to stop moving around.
- Fucking hurts. - Stay still.
- Hey, man, are you okay?
- No. I'm cut. Ugh!
- Oh, my God. Where?
- From the show.
They cut all my scenes. Angie Basset said she could
just do the lines into a mirror instead.
I can't believe this happened again!
- Wait, again?
I thought you said this was gonna be your first time on TV.
- It would have been.
'Cause I've been cut out of things 18 times!
- 18 times?
- Oh, my fucking God.
- Okay. Yes, I see the problem.
You can't even tell that it's Miley.
She just looks like a white, grainy blob.
- And you can't actually hear Miley
because you're screaming over the music.
- And look at how many there are.
- Oh, yes. See at the top there, Ashly?
Those should be lines, not dots.
- That's why I unfollowed her.
'Cause I couldn't have this shit in my feed every day.
- Hi, that's a lie. - Who the fuck is this now?
- I only met Brooke once too, but she still follows me,
and I post concerts all the time.
I was at that same Miley Cyrus concert
and storied the whole thing. - Oh, okay.
See, the reason I still follow her
is because her boyfriend is hot,
and he doesn't have his own account--
or, you know he does, but he's straight,
so it's all photography.
So the only way to see his body is by following her.
And it's tough 'cause she posts a lot of dumb shit,
but it is worth it because that body is toight.
- Sorry, so you only follow a woman to see a man?
Mm. That's literally anti-woman.
- No! No, it's not.
And you trying to, like,
call me out in front of all of these people sucks.
Yeah. All three of you suck.
And it is not anti-woman to say that.
I think all three of you should have equal pay.
I think all three of you should have access
to safe and legal abortions. I think all three of you
should have whatever third thing it is that we want.
But that doesn't mean you don't also suck.
Yes. Let's be honest, okay?
Some women can suck.
Women can suck!
Women can suck! Women--
- Yeah. We can't actually chant that.
- Okay. That's fair.
- Then in 2012,
I had my whole family over
to watch my scene in "The Big C,"
but they just showed the back of my head.
They just stayed on Laura the whole time.
- All right. I can't take this anymore.
- Nurse, nurse--no, real nurse.
I gotta get out of here. Hospitals are too depressing.
- Okay, well, it's best if someone comes to pick you up.
You got a wife? Or, if you're gay, a husband?
- I am gay.
But I weirdly do have a wife that might wanna come do this.
- Cary? Cary?
Where is he? Where is he?
- He's right down the hall.
- Oh, oh, no, um, say that I can't go in there.
- Oh, my God, this hospital.
No, you can't go in there. - God damn it!
He is my fucking husband, and no one is stopping me!
There you are.
You scared the shit out of me.
Don't you ever do that again, you hear me?
Ever.
I can't live without you,
and I don't want to.
- Okay, let's get you the fuck out of here.
- That was pretty impressive. You did good out there, Brooke.
Well, not at the beginning.
At the beginning, you said "Pass" for an hour.
But at the end, you did. - I don't get it.
Why were those girls coming for me?
Like, how did that one even know I unfollowed her?
I did it at, like, three in the morning
so she wouldn't notice.
- Of course she noticed. She cares what you think.
- Okay. Literally why?
- Are you joking? Because she looks up to you.
She's a young girl and you're a strong, powerful businesswoman.
- Wait, what?
- Why are you acting all surprised?
The day you became Chase's assistant,
you had business cards made that said,
"Brooke Strong, Powerful Businesswoman," on them.
- Yeah, but those were just lies to trick people
because I knew I was actually trash.
- Well, congratulations.
The lie's become real.
- I can't believe this happened.
- I know.
I wasn't gonna watch "Escape at Dannemora" before,
but now I'm really not gonna watch it.
- I just--I thought I finally
was about to have a little success,
and now I just have nothing again.
Like, I still just have nothing?
- I mean, you don't have nothing.
- It's like, what am I supposed to do?
Just continue to host a thousand dumb things
until I die?
I don't wanna host. I wanna act.
- Well, I would kill to be a host.
Though don't tell anyone on Grindr I said that.
- I should have known the movie was gonna fall through.
I just can't make any progress. My life fucking sucks!
- Oh, can I get one of those waters?
- Brooke!
Thanks for one of the weirdest panels I've ever been on.
- Oh, I know. I'm so sorry about the first half.
This may come as a surprise, and like all of you,
I am a strong, powerful business woman.
It's unreal. But you know,
I did sort of feel like a fraud for a minute there.
- Oh, don't worry. That's totally normal.
- You know, we all feel like frauds sometimes.
- Not me. I'm not a fraud.
I never feel like a fraud.
I've studied. I've worked hard.
I'm confident anytime I'm asked to speak on stage.
Night, all.
- Everyone hates her. And she smells.
- Okay, other than her, we've all been there.
On my first panel,
I was so nervous I almost blacked out.
- And I still get like that. - Me too.
- Yeah, me too. - Okay.
Truly, this makes me feel so much better.
- Yeah, and when I first started moderating,
I remember being so self-conscious
that I didn't seem smart enough.
- Seriously?
You are the smartest-looking woman I have ever seen.
You have a skunk stripe running through your hair.
- Exactly. That's why I bought it.
- Wait, what?
- This is a wig.
- Oh, my God.
- And like, what's the point of booking a movie
if it can just fall through? That's fucking fun for me.
Like, an actor can just back out and I'm back at zero?
I'm back at fucking zero?
- Oh, my God, dude. You are not at fucking zero.
I'm sorry, I didn't wanna say anything because I love you.
And it fucking sucks that you lost this movie.
It does. It fucking sucks.
And I want you to be able to complain to me,
but to hear you go on and on like this,
it's just like,
read the room a little bit, dude.
- I'm sorry. I--
- No, it's fine. It's fine.
I didn't mean to yell or whatever.
I'm not jealous of you. You know that, right?
Like, I am so fucking happy for all your success.
You just--you gotta know how you're coming across right now.
I still work in fucking retail.
My new boss is 21.
And the best acting job that I've had in the past year
was playing Jocelyn.
- Wait, who's Jocelyn?
- She's the woman that picked you up at the hospital.
Was it not clear that her name was Jocelyn?
Shit!
- I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
I didn't mean to be an asshole. - No, it's okay.
I mean, it probably does feel like you're at zero sometimes
because you just keep moving the goalposts for yourself.
Like, when we were waiting tables,
"The Gay Minute" was like a nine to you,
and now that's a zero, and that's fine.
That's cool. But as your friend,
I need you to know that things are happening for you.
I mean, it may not feel like it from the inside,
but things are happening.
They are. Slowly, they are happening.
- I know. I--I get it.
I get it.
And, hey, things are about to start happening for you.
I know it.
- Yeah, well, maybe.
Or not. Who knows?
- Well, thanks for saying something
and not just hating me secretly.
- You're welcome.
- And for coming all the way out to Staten Island.
- Yeah. You got it.
- And for wearing a full costume.
- Wait, what do you mean? What costume?
- Hey, thanks again for coming to the panel.
And I just wanted to say I'm sorry I forgot your name.
And that I tried to get an entire room to chant
"women can suck" at you.
- It's okay. We're sorry, too.
- All right.
Well, nice to meet you, Shauna.
And good luck on your singing career, Ashly.
- Thanks, Brooke.
Do you maybe wanna re-follow me on Insta?
- Absolutely. I'm doing it now.
- Thank you so much.
- Of course, girl. Have a good night.
- Okay, and this is my Instagram.
- Yep. Ooh, wow. 40 million followers. How cool!
Okay, so I want the picture to be the Deadline article.
And then I want the caption to say,
"My son @Cary.Dubek,
the next big movie star!"
And then I wanna do
and then Brooke says
- I think we should skip that one.
- Okay. And then to post, I just--
- Push that button.
- Okay, great. Well, thank you, Melanie.
Oh, say hi to your boyfriend, John, for me.
And his parents, Diane and Tom.
Okay, goodnight! Thanks again.
And...posted.
- Oh, my God.
Everyone's gonna think the movie's still happening.