Scott Rudin taking a big, angry step back from Broadway after bullying report
It’s been 10 days since The Hollywood Reporter published “Everyone Just Knows He’s An Absolute Monster,” a long-form piece of reporting focused on the allegedly abusive work environment created by Hollywood super-producer (and EGOT winner) Scott Rudin. The piece lays out Rudin’s status as a sort of apex bully in the L.A. ecosystem, a tyrant happy to work physical abuse (mostly throwing things at or near subordinates) into a regimen of emotional abuse that could range from verbal belittling to a frequent practice of firing people and then re-hiring them when his temper cooled off. Collecting anecdotes across decades of Rudin’s history in the business (as did this recent Vulture piece) the THR report outlined the shape of a man who would probably come off as a fascinating character in a film—but who, in the real world, was just another abuser, albeit a very powerful and financially successful one.