Eva Longoria shares her honest take on Warner Bros and Paramount merger
‘Desperate Housewives’ star reflects on impact of the WBD-Paramount merger
Eva Longoria has recently shared her honest take on Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount merger.
The American actress and producer explained how the merger would impact jobs and diversity in her latest interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program.
Eva said that the “consolidation is the scary part of it especially when you see a consolidation, you see a massive amount of job loss of creatives because it comes into this siloed system of intake”.
The Desperate Housewives actress noted that she would “pitch one person for five different buyers, but pitching to one person really what happens in that process is innovation dies, diversity dies”.
Eva shared, “It becomes very cookie cutter of like we’re looking for a medical procedure, and then it just becomes about that.”
The actress, who has been working under Hyphenate Media Group since 2016, has worked with both Paramount and Warner Bros. over the years.
Her comments came after WBD revealed that it had set a April 23 date for a shareholders vote on its sale to Paramount Skydance.
Elsewhere in the interview, Eva also discussed the role of the regulators in the merger process.
“I think we all need to pay attention to what’s going to happen. Supposedly, it’s going to operate separately still,” she noted.
