ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Long Con
Vanessa Grigoriadis and Josh Dean have been meticulously unraveling a bizarre international scam for their podcast Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen—and today in HWD, they finally unveil their suspect. The con person in question has allegedly impersonated prominent women in the industry, such as Kathleen Kennedy, Amy Pascal, and Donna Langley,and lured hundreds of Hollywood gig workers—makeup artists, photographers, trainers, actors, stuntmen—to Indonesia to shoot big blockbuster movies with fake names like The Master and Gotham City Sirens. It’s a wild ride, and we have all the details.
Elsewhere in HWD, critic Richard Lawson unwraps the holiday rom-com Happiest Season; Wonder Woman 1984 gets a new release plan; writer-creator Lucy Prebble talks abouther blisteringly funny new show, I Hate Suzie; and Christopher Rosen welcomes the truce between Will Smithand his Fresh Prince of Bel-Air aunt, Janet Hubert.
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