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#HollywoodPayUp: Production Assistants Need Fair Pay

The other day, I was listening to Scriptnotes, a podcast hosted by Craig Mazin (creator of Chernobyl) and John August (writer of Disney’s Aladdin), and one of the issues they brought up was the treatment of production assistants (PA’s) in Hollywood. The question they asked their listeners was (paraphrasing), what is going to be the next obvious issue that people…