For Female Creatives, Hollywood Is Still Just as 'Bleak' as Some Fear, but It Doesn't Have to Be
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Just days after both actress/producers Dakota Johnson and Issa Rae (who also appeared in 'Barbie') called out just how 'scared and clueless' executives at major conglomerates are when it comes to financing projects from women and people of color... Jennifer Lopez revealed that she had to self-fund part her $20 million autobiographical musical epic 'This Is Me...Now: A Love Story' once she lost financing for the project midway through production.
'We went in over budget. It was a challenging project in that way. It's like there could have never been enough money for the project. We didn't have endless funds from a studio. This was a very independent project that I was self-financing.'
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