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KARYN KUSAMA: Hollywood, it's
an industry powered on fantasy.

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It's the collective fantasies
of the audience.

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It's the collective fantasies
of the filmmakers.

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All of us are in this...

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unconscious soup

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in which we are
attempting to claim

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our piece of a dream.

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This is so much a business

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built on who has the power

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to enact...

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and execute on that
collective fantasy.

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And so what I would say,
the beast of Hollywood

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and the thing that it's
reckoning with at this very
moment

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is, what is our
relationship to power?

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And does power
have anything to do

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with the creative impulse?

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REBECCA KEEGAN: Hollywood
on-screen is all about

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sex and glamor and excitement,

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but the hard reality is,

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it's a multi-billion
dollar business.

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And, like any
big business,

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it has its own unique
power structure.

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The stakes are so high

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because movies cost
hundreds of millions of dollars,

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and they're seen by millions
of people all over the world.

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- I grew up in a different
country, and my views of the
world

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were shaped by Hollywood.

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With the amount of content
we are all consuming,

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how we view the world is
absolutely dictated by
Hollywood.

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For us to pretend
otherwise is ridiculous and
nïve.

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FREIDA PINTO: The whole world
looks up to Hollywood, and it's

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a very shiny little piece
of... a dream.

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[laughing]
And if you get it, wow.

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Pretty much from my first film,

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I was starting at the highest
high you can think of.

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I compare that entire experience
to the "Alice in Wonderland"
effect.

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Everything is big and large
and.. deep and wide

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and colorful and scary,

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and... it's all happening
at the same time.

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So, the feeling was truly like,

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"I'm in a fairy tale land."

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[chuckling]
That's what it is.

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MATTHEW BELLONI:
The dynamic of sex in Hollywood

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plays out in dollars and cents.

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There, for decades,
has been an expectation

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that certain
types of roles,

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from women, are more likely
to lead to box office.

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Everything from the definition
of, you know,

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the bombshell, the femme fatale,

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You know, all of these
types of monikers

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lead to the presumption

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that the woman in the movie is
going to be sexy.

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- We're used to women being
objectified on-screen.

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And in fact, we get trained
to think that that is quality.

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That the way these...
mostly male directors

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shoot women is the best way
to shoot women.

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- Hollywood has
played a big part

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in shaping our views
on sex and sexuality.

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If it is being created,
it's gotta be

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some sort of
reflection on society.

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And if it is a lens
that looks at women

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that is intrusive
and voyeuristic,

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then it's because
that's how society has

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seen the women in the world as.

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MATTHEW: Sex is
Hollywood's main currency

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in the sense that it powers

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a lot of the images we see,

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a lot of the relationships
that are depicted,

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and who is allowed to
be in these movies.

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TRACEY GOESSEL: There are
women and men in the industry

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who achieve their fame,

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their power, their wealth,

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through the sexuality

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of their bodies
and their being.

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KIERSEY CLEMONS:
I found strength in trying to do

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the "sex sells" thing.

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I did what everyone was
telling me to do,

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but the people that wanna groom
you and get you to that place,

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they don't let
it go easily.

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MATTHEW: Abuses of power and sex
are baked into the industry.

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From the very beginning,
there was this group of men,

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and they were all men,
who were making decisions

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about who got to be a star
and who didn't get to be a star.

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And when you have
those kinds of situations,

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it breeds abuses of power.

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RACHAEL HOROVITZ: One of the
ways that my whole career
flourished--

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and please don't take
this the wrong way--

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but being quote-unquote
"attractive"

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was a big factor.

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And that is just
less true for men.

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Men can look like anything,

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and, if they're liked,

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they do well.

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For women, 99% of being liked

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is being physically appealing

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and not threatening.

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MATTHEW: A lot of people have
been mistreated by Hollywood.

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There is a long, long history
of people being mistreated.

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I think, as a category of men,

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I think gay men have
really been mistreated.

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For women, obviously,
it's much worse.

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- The new headline
tonight, involving one of the
most

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powerful figures
in Hollywood.

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Several allegations
of sexual harassment

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against movie producer
Harvey Weinstein.

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REPORTER: After
years of denial

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and claims that
the encounter was consensual,

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Bill Cosby for the first
time faces criminal charges.

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- One of television's most
powerful executives has
resigned.

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CBS chairman and
CEO Les Moonves

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has been forced
to step down

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after more allegations
of sexual misconduct.

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KIERSEY: The way
that #MeToo happened

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and the way that women are...

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earning respect right now
in the industry

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is through...

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these men being afraid.

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They didn't do it
because they made the choice to,

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'cause they thought
we deserve respect.

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They're doing it 'cause they're
afraid that we're gonna tweet
about them.

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- There's a boys' club
that is safe and secure,

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and they take care
of each other,

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and I'm actually not
saying that that's not a nice
thing.

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That's a very nice way to feel.

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There is not a girls' club...

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that makes you feel anything
other than shatter-able,

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fragile, breakable.

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MAHA DAKHIL JACKSON:
What we want is... pretty basic.

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And we don't have
what's pretty basic,

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which is... a fair shot

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at everything,
all the time.

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That's what we want.

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NISHA GANATRA:
There's an awareness now

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of how discriminated
female directors have been.

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I, and a lot of
other women I know,

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had this moment where we
thought, "Oh, it's not just me."

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I thought I wasn't
able to break in,

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and I thought
I wasn't doing anything right.

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And it turned out the cards
were stacked against me.

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NINA MENKES: You didn't
wanna talk about the fact

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that you were
discriminated against

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'cause you thought that
it made you look weak, you know?

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Or, "Maybe I didn't
work hard enough."

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DIANA WILLIAMS:
I don't like to berate the past.

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The past is done,
it's happened.

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We have... an opportunity
now to kind of...

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to change our future.

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RACHAEL: We are at
a moment right now

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where the old power structures

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are being re-examined.

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Whether change is
really going to happen or not,

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I think, is still to be seen.

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- It's not to share
these negative stories.

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To say, well,
just, "Woe is me."

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It's not, it's: "Look at
this boat we've all been in

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just because it's
been a conditioning."

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It's amazing, isn't it?

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2020? It's just now starting?

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