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Episode 1

How Reese and Eva are shaking up Hollywood

Featuring: Eva Longoria, Lauren Levy Neustadter, Liz Tigelaar, Nichelle Tramble, Stacy Smith

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About this Episode

Lights, camera… equality? Rachel heads to L.A. to find out if things are really changing for women in Hollywood. USC’s Stacy Smith walks us through the numbers (and why she’s newly optimistic). We visit Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, to chat with Head of TV & Film Lauren Levy Neustadter and showrunners Liz Tigelaar and Nichelle Tramble Spellman. And Eva Longoria shares her wisdom between takes—literally—while she directs her new show, Grand Hotel.

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