What 21-Year-Olds Should Know About Hollywood by Bill Duke
Film Courage: This is a tricky question…but it’s up to you if you want to answer it…navigating Hollywood agendas. Sometimes what happens (and I clearly don’t have to tell you this. I’m sure this has happened to you in your career), but something will happen with someone, it won’t even be “burning somebody,” but they are offended. And then they come back to you years later as if nothing had ever happened. Like you’re great friends or they “friend” you on social media. As a professional, how do you handle that? Do you say “You know what? It’s water under the bridge.” Are there levels? With some it’s water under the bridge. Others it’s “Please stay over there [away from me] I think I’m good.” Others it’s “You know what? It was a misunderstanding. I’m fine.”
Bill Duke: I think it’s both. Some people you can forgive and forget. Some people you cannot forgive or forget. There are other people you can forgive and not forget. So there’s people you can forgive and forget. Forgive and not forget. It depends on what they’ve done. It if’s the kind of betrayal of a friend, but they not only stabbed you in the back, they held the knife and twisted it a few times to make sure that whatever trust you had in them died. It’s not that you wouldn’t work with them again, it’s called trust but verify…(Watch the video interview on FilmCourage.com here).
