Pamela Abdy feels 'pure, unadulterated rage' following Warner Bros. exit

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Set us as preferred Lately, Pamela Abdy has been feeling “pure, unadulterated rage.”Abdy exited her role as co-chair and chief executive officer of Warner Bros.after the studio was acquired by Paramount Skydance in a controversial merger that closed last month.

The now-former studio executive received the inaugural Vanguard Award at the Women in Film Honors gala on Thursday evening.She thanked every single woman director, producer and executive she has worked with throughout her career, including Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell, Zoë Kravitz, Margot Robbie, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, whom she feels ever-growing gratitude toward.“But lately, other feelings, and one in particular, have risen to the surface with undeniable ferocity, and that feeling is pure, unadulterated rage,” she said onstage in the Beverly Hilton’s opulent ballroom.

“Rage for these women, rage for me and even more rage for the entire generation of women who deserve to have their potential recognized and elevated.”“Rage at how women are under attack everywhere,” she continued.“Rage at how our health and our wellbeing always seem to come second to how we show up in a room.

And here’s the problem: As a leader who happens to be a woman, I am supposed to sublimate this rage.And you know what happens when they tell you to tamp down a fever? Sometimes it just burns hotter.” (All remarks onstage were interpreted into ASL by Keturah Holiday and Amber Berteloot.)She has been called difficult, emotional and combative, Abdy said.

She’s been told to put on her “big boy pants,” to smile more.She’s been told that movies starring women and directed by women don’t make as much money as those made by men, that their audience is limited.

(Even after “Barbie,” which she oversaw alongside Mike De Luca, grossed more than $1.4 bil...