The cyber attack that lost her job.
We originally reported that the c0-chair of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal, had gone her separate way from Sony to start her own production venture, but turns out Sony actually fired her.
She did an interview with Tina Brown, Wednesday night at a Women in the World conference in San Francisco, where she said, “All the women here are doing incredible things in this world. All I did was get fired”.
Pascal also talked about what the panic inside Sony Pictures was like when they realized the scope of the hackers’ breach.
She said, “I ran this company and I had to worry about everybody who was really scared. … People were really scared. But nagging in the back of my mind, I kept calling IT and being like, They don’t have our emails, tell me they don’t have our emails. But then they did. That was a bad moment. And you know what you write in emails.”
Even though she was in charge of the resurgence of the Bond franchise and critical hits like American Hustle and Moneyball, what were in those emails wouldn’t change the fact that what were in those emails, cost Pascal her job.
One of the many humiliating leaked material was an exchange she had with producer Scott Rudin prior to a fundraiser event she was slated to attend alongside President Obama. The two of them traded racially-charged jokes about what type of movies they thought their African American president of the United States enjoys, from 12 Years A Slave to Ride Along.
There was also the big reveal that actress Jennifer Lawrence made less than her male counterparts on American Hustle, which proves that Hollywood has a major gender imbalance.
Pascal went on to tell Brown this, “I’ve paid (Lawrence) a lot more money since then, I promise you. Here’s the problem: I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money.”
She also added that it was up to the actresses themselves to stand up for what they are worth.
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