Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNetflix’s Bela Bajaria first came up in the entertainment industry in the mid-1990s as an assistant at CBS, after mailing letters to “hundreds of people” in the Hollywood Creative Directory.
She relished the development process and reading the latest drafts of scripts, which she calls the most formative part of her early Hollywood education.
But often what wound up on-screen didn’t align with what she pictured on the page.“I would read a script sometimes and imagine lots of different-looking people in that script or in that family setting, and then see [a cast of] primarily white actors,” says the executive responsible for bringing to fruition shows such as “The Mindy Project” and the “Queer Eye” reboot. “When I.
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