Bryan Lourd Talks SAG-AFTRA Strike, ‘Brand Alignment’ with Pinault and Ari Emanuel Diss
variety.comBryan Lourd shot back at eyebrow-raising comments by longtime rival agency CEO Ari Emanuel on Thursday, regarding recent litigation brought on to CAA by actress Julia Ormond.
Emanuel, CEO of the parent company to WME, attended Bloomberg’s Screentime conference this week and called for Lourd and his longtime partner Kevin Huvane to “take a leave of absence” amid a lawsuit from Ormond.
That suit charges The Walt Disney Company and CAA with compliance in abuse Ormond says she suffered at the hands of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. “We all know Ari Emanuel to be an incredibly performative and erratic and in my mind self-serving human, I think much to the detriment of not just his colleagues, but his clients, the few that he’s got left.
More importantly, his investors,” Lourd said during his own session at the Bloomberg conference. Going in further, Lourd was incredulous that Emanuel would try to take high ground on issues involving women.
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