“Jane The Virgin” star Justin Baldoni premiered his roundtable-style talk show “Man Enough” in December 2017, just two months after sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein emerged and launched the #MeToo movement. The show, which Baldoni had been working on for about five years, originally planned to launch episodes every Thursday in January, but the fourth installment, titled “#MeToo,” dropped July 24.
“What we wanted to do was take time,” Baldoni tells Variety. “We didn’t want to release it until it was ready — until we had it seen and watched and vetted by the most amazing and powerful women at the top of this movement. It was very important for us that from top to bottom it was looked at and seen as a way to be helpful.”
The episode was one he had in the making for a long time, even pre-Weinstein, he says. But it wasn’t...
“What we wanted to do was take time,” Baldoni tells Variety. “We didn’t want to release it until it was ready — until we had it seen and watched and vetted by the most amazing and powerful women at the top of this movement. It was very important for us that from top to bottom it was looked at and seen as a way to be helpful.”
The episode was one he had in the making for a long time, even pre-Weinstein, he says. But it wasn’t...
- 7/24/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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