Legends Of The Fall director Edward Zwick has claimed that Brad Pitt almost walked away from the 1994 epic.The director shared the story in his new memoir titled Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, which is set for publication on February 13.The Oscar-nominated Legends Of The Fall follows three brothers and their father (played by Anthony Hopkins) who live in the wilderness of early 20th-century Montana, and charts how their lives are affected by nature, war and love over a 50-year period. It is based on the 1979 novella of the name by Jim Harrison.In his memoir, Zwick writes about the difficult relationship he had with Pitt, who was cast in the role of Tristan Ludlow after Tom Cruise dropped out.“It fell to [producer] Marshall [Herskovitz] to talk Brad off the ledge,” Zwick writes in an extract published by Vanity Fair, after claiming that Pitt’s agent called him after the first table read “to say Brad wanted to quit”.“It was the first augury of the deeper springs of emotion roiling inside Brad.
Costume Designers Officially Launch Equal Pay Campaign As They Seek Parity With Peers
25.01.2024 - 18:47 / deadline.com
The Costume Designers Guild Local 892 has officially launched its Pay Equity Now campaign which focuses on achieving parity with their male-dominated creative department head counterparts.
This comes as IATSE looks towards beginning negotiations on their contract in March. Their current deal expires at the end of July.
The Costume Designers Guild consists of professional costume designers, assistant costume designers and costume illustrators working in film, TV, commercials and other media. Its membership is 87% female with over 20% of members who identify as LGBTQ and the guild says that they are 65% lower on the IATSE pay scale than male-dominated creative department heads, according to Pay Equity Now.
“Within an industry that prides itself on creativity and inclusivity, this glaring wage gap highlights an urgent need for change, one that the CDG has decided to take action towards. This movement seeks to expand upon the #NakedWithoutUs campaign that the Costume Designers Guild has used for the past several years to bring attention to this inequity,” reads a statement from the Pay Equity Now campaign.
The campaign is asking for “fair and just compensation for CDG membership” to set the precedent for larger conversations around women’s rights in Hollywood, especially those who work behind the camera.” Based on a 60-hour work week, the costume designer’s scale rate in the IATSE Basic Agreement is about 30% lower than the nearest creative department head, the guild said. The scale rate of the costume designer even falls far below many assistant positions in those aforementioned male-dominated positions, they added.
“Members of the CDG and leaders of our Pay Equity Now movement will not sit idly by as this glaring
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