Will Thorne Staff WriterThe list of what surprises Gale Anne Hurd in the entertainment business is a very short one, and the backlash to the legal battle between Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Company certainly isn’t on it.Hurd has been a driving force behind some of the biggest films ever made (“The Terminator,” “Aliens” and “Armageddon”) and a small screen franchise which, for a time, was the most watched show in television (“The Walking Dead”).
With such a list of credits, she seems like a fitting candidate for a lifetime achievement award, and is set to receive one at the Locarno Film Festival this week.Variety met with Hurd at the Swiss fest for a wide-ranging discussion covering gender equality, the Johansson- Disney lawsuit,.
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