LuckyChap, Senior Vice President of Television
CONNECTION LINE Developing (and producing) your future TV obsessions, including Andrew GarfieldWild Things.
The ARC Rather than follow her agent father and comedy writer mother into the industry, Berkus came to the University of Michigan wanting to become a lawyer. “Then I rushed to the legal community and didn’t get into it,” she says. “I mean, I breathed it in and I was like, ‘Damn, now what do I do?’ ” Turns out the answer was turning his love of television into a series of PA gigs on shows like The Mindy Project before finding her way to a position as a writing assistant on Girls and, later, with the company of Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. From there, she spent six years at Imagine Entertainment, where she was intimately involved with a roster that included The “suburbs” and the upcoming series Siegfried and Roy starring Garfield and Jude Law for Apple TV. But LuckyChap came calling a year ago, and Roonie, a Los Angeles native and new mom to her daughter, jumped at the opportunity to work at the hit factory run by Margot Robbie. During this period, she put together a list of 10 to 15 projects, including one Life is strange series for Amazon Prime Video. Yet Berkus doesn’t take himself too seriously. “If I had to stand out, I would say I like to bring a lightness to this business,” she says, “because I think sometimes, especially now, things can get really stressful and we lose sight that at the end of the day, it’s just one big party. »
ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD I WOULD TRADE PLACES WITH FOR A DAY “Nina Rosenstein, who directs all of HBO’s comedy specials. We’ve never met, but Nina, my daughter, if you’re reading this, let’s link up and get our Weird Friday the moment has begun!
THE WORST ADVICE I RECEIVED ABOUT WORKING IN HOLLYWOOD “It’s cool to have an unapproachable boss with ‘I’m smarter than you’ energy. It’s not, it sucks! Normalize the silent power of validating others and having a fun vibe.”
THE BEST PLACE FOR A COFFEE MEETING IS “You’re not crazy anywhere!! None of that anymore!!”
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