After Broadway producer Scott Rudin announced his retirement due to accusations of years of abuse and violent behavior with his employees, theater employees demonstrated to demand justice for the accusations against the artistic entrepreneur.
Rudin, who in the past made fun of his tyrannical style in the office, has decided to take a back seat after a recent article in The Hollywood Reporter brought to light new allegations of abuse.
The “Hollywood Reporter” article details that the producer of films such as “The Social Network”, “No Country for Old Men” and “The Truman Show” broke a computer by hitting it against the hand of an assistant who could not reserve a seat in full flight and, on another occasion, threw a glass container at an employee during a meeting.
For these accusations, hundreds of employees of the Broadway theater demonstrated in New York demanding the total withdrawal of Rudin from the artistic medium, as well as greater diversity and the protection of minorities who perform in that medium.
Rudin’s downfall comes when the producer was working on a reissue of “The Music Man,” with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.
Rudin’s aggressive style was well known in the entertainment industry on both coasts of the United States and in 2005 he boasted of having fired or forced out 119 attendees, although members of his team consider the number to be closer to 250.
In 2014, the New York Post claimed that the producer had pushed an assistant out of the car in the middle of the trip across the Triborough Bridge for being late to pick him up at the airport and came to run over another, something to which the producer in later interviews reacted laughing .
The producer was known for humiliating his employees, firing them for no apparent reason, or having strong disagreements with actors and other members of the entertainment industry.
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