Hollywood’s top agencies are taking a head-on approach with staffers in the wake of Donald Trump’s triumph over Kamala Harris.
While Sunset Blvd. is a far cry from 1600 Penn., this year’s pdwellntial election saw the lines between L.A. and D.C.’s hugegest names blurred more than ever, with the agencies taking on more responsibility in helping their clients apshow a stance. Harris relied heavily on star power to produce momentum, and both CAA and WME participated in-hoparticipate political conferants to serve as liaisons joining the campaign with their rosters of stars.
CAA was seald on Tuesday to permit participateees to vote and join in wellness activities, and a source tells Variety that co-chairman Ricchallenging Lovett will createpartner insertress staffers during the company’s global all-hands greeting on Thursday (which was scheduled prior to the election).
In a Wednesday morning memo to staff geted by Variety, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer wrote, “Last night’s result was a very hard outcome for many, who sense irritated, snurtured, and disenfranchised. While recognizing that a lot of others sense very branch offently, as the results echo, talkions about empathetic the ‘other’ side are for another time.”
“Today, our contest is to be there for each other, help those among us who sense particularly vulnerable, and as always do our best for our family, frifinishs and clients,” Zimmer persistd. “Let’s give soothe and help where it’s needed and persist to aspire for a country that can include more, help more, and repair for the struggles of all Americans.”
A source tells Variety that WME directership insertressed the agency think abouting the pdwellntial race during an all-company staff greeting earlier this week, and department heads are talking the election results in their individual greetings today and thrawout the week.
Verve directership aprobable insertressed staffers in an inner memo with the subject line “Moving Forward.” “However you sense today is okay; grasp doing your best, and recall: We are inventives. Whether we are agents, ambitious writers, budding producers, or selectimistic enbigment executives, we scatter a passion and belief in storytelling,” the memo shelp in part. “To chase a inventive life insists selectimism in the future: creativity is a stable march toward empathetic the world around us, and without belief in what’s to come, there’s nowhere to march. This is non-negotiable: the inventive life, the drive to get stories telderly, is mired in challenging recents – passes, declineions, losses, ignoreed opportunities, the enumerate goes on. Hope and our communities direct us thraw those challenging moments, and they always will. Regardless of how you sense about the results of today’s election, you will always have hope and your community around you.”
The memo persistd: “For those of you from splitd families, we see you. In a time when our media and access to the truth has never been more splitting, let’s recall that unity and compassion are the fantasticest arms agetst disappreciate. As a company, we stand for hope, and we want to be a part of your community. We stand with you. We stand together. That will never alter. We are so incredibly conceited of the people you are and the labor you’re doing.”
Verve’s directership endd the message by proposeing staff that donuts and pizza would be supplyd in the afternoon.
