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Actress Anna Gunn on New Wall Street Film, 'Equity' (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: At this point, we're looking at a range of thirty
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  Speaker 1: million a share that gives us evaluation the eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: at the comparables, and you set thirty four to thirty
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  Speaker 1: six in your pitch. You can re leave tens of
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars on the table. We can get at
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  Speaker 1: least thirty five. This is a balancing act, raising money
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  Speaker 1: for your company while still promising our investors a deal
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  Speaker 1: for coming on board. Look, you begged me for this,
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  Speaker 1: I p O. Do you want me to call chatting trust?
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  Speaker 1: I don't actually remember begging, does anybody else? A clip
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  Speaker 1: from the new movie Equity. It opens to this Friday
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  Speaker 1: in New York and Los Angeles and nationwide in August. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about raising money, let's talk about going
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  Speaker 1: from Crystal Meth to Wall Street. Joining us now is
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  Speaker 1: Anna Gunn, best known for her role as Skyl White
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  Speaker 1: on the AMC drama Breaking Bad, for which she won
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  Speaker 1: the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama. Ann,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being here. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: having me tell us about how you prepared for this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Equity well. I talked with our producer, Sarah Alicia. First,
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  Speaker 1: they gave me a lot of information about the stories
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  Speaker 1: and experiences that they had drawn their information from for
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  Speaker 1: the for the film. And then I was put in
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  Speaker 1: touch with Barbara byrne Um and I spoke to her
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  Speaker 1: for two hours straight, took reams and rooms of notes,
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  Speaker 1: and she was extraordinarily helpful and really gave me is
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  Speaker 1: she is a luminary on Wall Street. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: always say about her. And we connected immediately, and she
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  Speaker 1: really gave me a rundown, not only of the I
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  Speaker 1: P O process, but just in terms of how she
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  Speaker 1: got started in the business, what it was like, her
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  Speaker 1: struggles for victories, how balancing personal life with a professional life,
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  Speaker 1: being a woman and a mail driven profession, and Um
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  Speaker 1: told me things that I actually wasn't aware of. What
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  Speaker 1: was very interesting to me was not only it's in
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  Speaker 1: the script during a speech where Naomi says it, I
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  Speaker 1: like money, and she says it outright and owns that
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  Speaker 1: and says, I do I like numbers. But the part
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  Speaker 1: of the deal that I think she's actually most passionate
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  Speaker 1: about is the the reading people, reading the clients psychologically
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  Speaker 1: and emotionally and having that intuition and knowing what they
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  Speaker 1: need and balancing balancing that with what the investors need.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really intricate, intricate situation. Will you play Naomi Bishop?
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  Speaker 1: And I could imagine heard any one of the big
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  Speaker 1: banks on Wall Street. She could be gold when she
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  Speaker 1: could be a maybe working a lot of places. She's
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  Speaker 1: an investment banker and she's just had after a string
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  Speaker 1: of very successful in initial public offerings I p O
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  Speaker 1: S and Techtomy, she has Dina core one that just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fly the way it was supposed to. So everyone's
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  Speaker 1: kind of dogging her about that. You including those guys
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  Speaker 1: in the clip who are complaining that you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to I p O. I'm sorry you're not, Naomi, But
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  Speaker 1: Naomie's not going to I feel the company for enough.
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  Speaker 1: And I just think it's the portrayal of that character
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  Speaker 1: because it's a woman, oh and strong, smart, has to
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  Speaker 1: do with a lot of the same crap and challenge
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  Speaker 1: as a man has to. And yet she's still a
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  Speaker 1: woman in an environment that um is still the male dominant.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a fascinating balance. And congratulations, you do
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  Speaker 1: a very good job. I think of balancing the parts
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  Speaker 1: of this character. Sometimes I like Naomi, sometimes I don't, right,
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  Speaker 1: And that was what I liked about it so much
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  Speaker 1: about the film is that there there are these gray
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  Speaker 1: areas and all the characters, and in Naomi, you're wondering
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  Speaker 1: sometimes which way she's going to go? Is she going to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, take one path or the other. It's also
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  Speaker 1: interesting that she after suffering this, we meet her when
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  Speaker 1: she has just suffered this very public loss and going
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  Speaker 1: in and still being a warrior. And what I love
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  Speaker 1: about her is that she goes in and still because,
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  Speaker 1: as you say, she has been on this winning streak
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  Speaker 1: and she's worked hard and she deserves this promotion. And
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  Speaker 1: then it's told outright by her us the perception as
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  Speaker 1: you rubbed people the wrong way. And Barbara talked a
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  Speaker 1: lot to me about that tight rope in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the likability factor shall we call it um, which I
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  Speaker 1: thought was fascinating as well. Do you think differently about
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  Speaker 1: women on Wall Street after having made this movie? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: I was so impressed. We were given a tour around
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  Speaker 1: Goldman Sacks one day, a few days actually before we
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  Speaker 1: began filming in Philadelphia, and went through a I p
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  Speaker 1: O process and um, and then got to go out
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  Speaker 1: to dinner with about seven of our investors and the
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  Speaker 1: inspirations for these characters, and so I got to see
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  Speaker 1: them both in the professional and the social settings, which
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  Speaker 1: was very very interesting, and I took little bits and
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  Speaker 1: pieces from everybody. So she Naomi became sort of a
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  Speaker 1: pastiche of all these tremendous women. I found their intellect
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  Speaker 1: and their wit and their humor and the way that
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  Speaker 1: their stories had a commonality to them, but also you know,
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  Speaker 1: very specific stories as well. So that's why I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I did. She was a bit of a facetious
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, this has been a long process. It
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  Speaker 1: was at least two years ago that on my show
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  Speaker 1: Here Are Blueberg Radio we interviewed Sarah Megan Thomas, Lisia Rhiner,
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  Speaker 1: and we've been kind of following this along and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a kind of it takes a while to
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  Speaker 1: get if you know, you're in that industry still and
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  Speaker 1: make people appreciate sometimes even once you have a script
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  Speaker 1: done and some money lined up, it still takes time
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  Speaker 1: to put it all together. This film is, um, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: what's it like? Because it's intricate. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: twist and turns in the plot. Uh, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: person moves one way and she then she gets double crossed.
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  Speaker 1: You know Naomi's guys, you know couple, you just double
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  Speaker 1: crossing her. It's a quiet it's kind of almost a thriller,
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  Speaker 1: but it's definitely got that suspense in it. It does definitely,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's fantastic that people are picking up
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  Speaker 1: on that, and that you've just said that, because that's
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  Speaker 1: that what mere our director merriman on, who's brilliant, UM,
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  Speaker 1: she really felt that she wanted it to be paced
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  Speaker 1: and and and um situated like a thriller. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that that's being picked up on. But I also
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  Speaker 1: think it's a real character study of these three people
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  Speaker 1: and what they will do with the choices they will
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  Speaker 1: make and and and ultimately whether or not you stick
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  Speaker 1: with your moral compass or you choose to go another
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  Speaker 1: way and um and get ahead despite perhaps making the
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  Speaker 1: wrong choice, which is a conundrum for all these women.
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  Speaker 1: I think don't let money be a dirty word. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and that was I think one of the that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the juiciest species I probably ever had. Um and
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  Speaker 1: I felt that it was very important for a woman
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  Speaker 1: to be able to say, you know, own this. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid of being openly ambitious and saying openly
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  Speaker 1: that I like money. And and she explains right away,
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  Speaker 1: the character Nami explains that it comes and originated out
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  Speaker 1: of a need UM in her life, a very real
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  Speaker 1: need single mother for brothers. She's the oldest, felt of
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to put them through school. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think then the passion for the win and the
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  Speaker 1: passion for the deal making really took over, and that's
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  Speaker 1: been an upward swing in her life. Hollywood, the film industry,
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  Speaker 1: like Wall Street UH, is still very male dominated. Does
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  Speaker 1: the making of this movie equity, which UH focuses on
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  Speaker 1: lead characters who are women. You and your assistant and
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  Speaker 1: all she's going through and all of her conflicts. Um
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  Speaker 1: has obviously a lot of advice and input from women
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  Speaker 1: on Wall Street investment as well. Does this signal something?
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  Speaker 1: Does this open more doors? Is? Do you see Is
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  Speaker 1: this at the tip of the spear in the film industry? Perhaps?
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  Speaker 1: I hope so, I really do. I think it's about
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  Speaker 1: time that it's also when you have people, as you say,
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  Speaker 1: Alicia Riner and Sarah Megan Thomas, who created and conceived
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  Speaker 1: the movie. Amy Fox or female screenwriter, a female director.
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  Speaker 1: Three strong female leads is a very unusual situation and
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  Speaker 1: one that I hope we see much much more we
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  Speaker 1: need to. One of the aspects of the movie talks about,
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  Speaker 1: in a sense, hiding certain things. There's a character who
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  Speaker 1: is pregnant, but she replaces her Martini with water. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron. Sarah who plays Aaron, and that character has
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  Speaker 1: talked a lot about um the about the idea of
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  Speaker 1: having to hide your pregnancy because the fear that you
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  Speaker 1: won't get ahead, you won't be promoted, and that people
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  Speaker 1: will think, well, she's going to be busy with her child,
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  Speaker 1: and so that will take over. And it's also something
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  Speaker 1: that Naomi's had to struggle with. I think she made
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  Speaker 1: a very conscious choice not to get married and not
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  Speaker 1: to have children in order to keep her eye on
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  Speaker 1: the prize, as it were, and that's something that's still
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  Speaker 1: a very difficult balancing act for a lot of women
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  Speaker 1: across the board, no matter what which profession you're in. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: tell us more about equity opening in theaters across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Give us the details and also what's what's up? What's
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  Speaker 1: next for you? It's not a good. Well. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I am doing season two of Shades of Blue with
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  Speaker 1: ray Leota and Jennifer m Jennifer, j Lo Jennifer. She's
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  Speaker 1: amazing and so is he. And um, and this movie
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  Speaker 1: is opening in theaters to New York today and or Friday, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: and in Los Angeles on Saturday, and then goes country wide,
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  Speaker 1: um in August. And thank you so much for Johning us.
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  Speaker 1: It's really fun to meet you. Thank you. We're always
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  Speaker 1: a little bit star struck here at Bloomberg and she's
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  Speaker 1: definitely a star. And you really this movie shines so
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  Speaker 1: much because of you. Thank you, so thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: And a gun Startup Equity opening Friday in New York
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  Speaker 1: and Los Angeles nationwide in August. A terrific, very realistic
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  Speaker 1: look I think at the women on Wall Street in
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  Speaker 1: the world of investment banking. This is Bloomberg