The toxic behavior that’s chronicled in “Swimming with Sharks,” a new Roku series, isn’t as far-fetched as viewers might think.
In the industry since she was 10, writer/director Kathleen Robertson says there were plenty of occasions when studio heads and other authority figures overstepped their bounds. “My exposure to this side of the business was always seeing it play out in real time,” she says. “Actors are totally protected and treated like glass Royal Doulton figurines. But my husband , who’s also the producer of this, was an executive for many, many years. When we met, he was working for Scott Rudin.
In the series, Diane Kruger plays the abusive head of Fountain Pictures, a woman who has no remorse when dealing with underlings. “Mad Men’s” Kiernan Shipka plays an intern, eager to learn by watching. Based on a 1994 film starring Kevin Spacey, the new adaptation does more than flip genders. It attempts to show how Kruger’s character was treated and how she became just as bad as the men who were once in charge of her fate.
Robertson, who was a regular on “Beverly Hills 90210,” says she was someone who believed the Hollywood dream could come true. Born in Canada, she moved to the United States after starring in the sitcom “Maniac Mansion,” and started getting work in film and television. In the 2010s, she started to write scripts and went through a Writers Guild training program to help her guide films and series.“I’ve been in the industry since I was 10 and this has always been my world,” Robertson says.
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