Scott Rudin, As Told by His Assistants

Illustration: by Fede Yankelevich Like Harvey Weinstein before him, Scott Rudin has been called an "open secret" throughout the entertainment industry. For decades, the megaproducer — one of only 16 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony — has held a reputation as one of the worst bosses ever to work in Hollywood. Still, the press, and the industry itself, has often presented his abusive behavior — throwing computers, insults, and tantrums at his assistants — as the idiosyncratic by-product of an eccentric man. Even after The Hollywood Reporter published a piece earlier this month going into greater detail, Hollywood and Broadway largely remained silent. Meanwhile, the whisper network has become a chorus, with thinly veiled tweets and Instagram posts from former assistants lighting up social media. As detailed in a 2005 Wall Street Journal profile titled "Boss-zilla!," Rudin, by his own estimation, burned through 119 assistants over five years — or, as one former assistant describes it, "an absurd revolving door of disposable, interchangeable, bright young people whose purpose is to be the target and outlet for his anger." We spoke with 33 former assistants and interns of Scott Rudin Productions who worked for him from 1994 to… Read full this story

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