Hollywood Producer Will Packer
I Rent On Capacity
And Finest Individuals Have a tendency To Be Numerous!!!
Revealed
TMZ.com
Will Packer, a big-time Hollywood producer, is weighing in on Trump’s crackdown on anti-DEI initiatives — telling us what actually issues on the subject of hiring his crew.
We caught up with Will at LAX Monday, and he had some ideas about range, fairness and inclusion hiring — Hollywood’s extra reactive than proactive, so anticipate 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 most of the finest folks 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producers really feel the identical method — and if he thinks corporations would possibly simply fall again into their outdated methods, with DEI packages on shaky floor.
Clearly, Will’s acquired some main perception into the media recreation, 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.
