For Brian Grazer, being a film and TV producer isn’t all about name-dropping celebrities and A-lister lunches at the Palm (OK, some of the job is definitely about that)
For Brian Grazer, being a film and TV producer isn’t all about name-dropping celebrities and A-lister lunches at the Palm. OK, some of the job is definitely about that.
In an interview at his Santa Monica home, the 68-year-old Grazer spoke about why he wrote “Face to Face,” the future of his company, and how actor Tom Hanks kept him from bailing on the Eminem movie “8 Mile.”Why did you decide to focus this new book on human connection, and the importance of eye contact?
I’m a very successful communicator, when I’m concentrating and focusing. It’s not a natural thing for me. Ron Howard and I were working on our first movie together, “Night Shift” with two writers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. In meetings, I’m often not looking at them because I feel like I’m getting away with multitasking. So Ron says gently to me, “You know, when we’re meeting with Lowell and Babaloo, I kind of notice you don’t really look at them.
Then, serendipitously, I’m having dinner with Tom Hanks at Giorgio Baldi. And I say, “I’m about to make this movie on this guy, Eminem, and I’m thinking I may be fueling his power source by making this movie, and I’m thinking he could be homophobic. I don’t want to do that.” And he says, “Are you crazy? That’s another character. ... That’s Slim Shady. He doesn’t even take it seriously. He’s not a homophobe.” ... And I thought, if anyone knows, it’s this guy, Tom Hanks. So I just went forward.
We’ve expanded by being independent. Being dedicated to one studio or one network or television environment can be very important if you really need that singular support to get TV shows and movies made. If you find that perfect marriage with a studio, it can be fortifying.But I think now, with multiple platforms of all types that make all sizes and shapes of narrative content, we’ve come to realize that stories are everything.
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