The huge fires that broke out in Los Angeles last week are the third "calamity" to hit Hollywood in recent years, says industry expert Karie Bible. The disaster arrived with the film industry still feeling the impacts of Covid-19 and the writers' and actors' strikes. At least 24 people have died in the blazes, which have destroyed 12,000 structures and forced 92,000 people from their homes.
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00:00The situation in Hollywood is fraught.
00:07For quite some time, there has been calamity.
00:10There was the pandemic, which upended the whole world, and of course, a lot of people's
00:16jobs and lives were completely upended.
00:19Then right after that, we had both the writers and the actors' strikes, which was devastating.
00:24And for quite some time, people were saying the phrase, survive until 25.
00:29Well, 2025 is here.
00:31We have a massive wildfire and a citywide crisis.
00:47When the fire erupted, one of the first things the industry did was cancel certain premieres
00:51in LA, including The Last Showgirl and A Better Man.
00:55Now we're seeing the postponement of several awards nominations or award shows.
01:02And what a lot of people don't realize is that when these things happen, there's an
01:06economic impact because it is not just the stars, but it is the makeup artists, the hairdressers,
01:12the drivers, the bartenders, the caterers, the event planners.
01:16There's a whole economy around these events that winds up suffering when they get canceled
01:22or postponed.
01:27I feel sometimes very frustrated by much of the news coverage because it tends to focus
01:31on the 1%, the A-listers, the millionaires who've lost their homes.
01:35And I have compassion for them as well.
01:38But they don't often focus on the fact that that is a very tiny percentage of Los Angeles
01:44because we are a very diverse city.
01:47We have people of every economic level that have been affected by this.