Hollywood Producer Will Packer
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Will Packer, a big-time Hollywood producer, is weighing in on Trump’s crackdown on anti-DEI initiatives — telling us what actually issues relating to hiring his staff.
We caught up with Will at LAX Monday, and he had some ideas about variety, fairness and inclusion hiring — Hollywood’s extra reactive than proactive, so count on a response to that political pendulum swing. However for him? It’s at all times been about hiring the very best for the job — DEI or not.
Try the clip — Will, the powerhouse behind “Girls Trip,” “Think Like A Man,” and “Ride Along,” tells us lots of the greatest individuals for the job simply occur to be POC. That offers him a leg up on others within the biz who actively don’t prioritize hiring essentially the most various and certified expertise.
Will dives deeper, telling us whether or not fellow Black producers really feel the identical means — and if he thinks corporations would possibly simply fall again into their outdated methods, with DEI applications on shaky floor.
Clearly, Will’s bought some main perception into the media sport, and he’s unpacking all of it in his upcoming memoir, “Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big”, dropping Feb 18.
