Bryan Lourd Presents Carrie Fisher Scholarship | Women in Entertainment 2019

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19 hours ago

Bryan Lourd spoke at The Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 Women in Entertainment 2019.

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00:00I was invited here last year by Lena Dunham who was the guest editor and I

00:04sat right there and I cried for two hours and I was so moved by you young

00:10women and what your what your goals are and what what a adversity you faced and

00:17that this program that Steve and Debbie have fostered in such a great way with

00:22so many people's support was the best thing I'd ever seen and it still is and

00:26it was the best day I'd had in Los Angeles in a long time and it's happening

00:30again so I got in the car and I called Steven and said what can I do to help

00:36and he immediately said give money and and and I said okay I have to call my

00:43daughter first because I have you know we have a rule about this but we have an

00:47idea and I called Billy who is supposed to be doing this the little nasty person

00:53that she is but she's in India traveling so you know my favorite thing public

00:58speaking is happening I said Billy I've got this idea I just saw this thing and

01:03she said let's give a scholarship in mom's name and so I called Steven back and

01:09he said this is so simple and he basically got twice as much money out of

01:13me as I intended to give him and then it happened again anyway I'm happy to do it

01:20we're happy to do it so this is a scholarship that's a full scholarship in

01:24Carrie Fisher's name

01:28and food

01:32for for many of you young women that have applied you probably only know Carrie

01:40one way and I brought a picture that was the picture that she she insisted that if

01:47we ever had to use a picture of her that this is the picture we would use and for

01:53those of you that know her you know it's true there is another picture of her that

01:59is more of the picture that is the author that is probably more representative of

02:05what this is but but they're both Carrie Fisher as you guys know so so that all

02:12happened Billy and Sherry and a group of us sat in a room in Sherry's conference room

02:16and read all of your applications and one person after the other is deserving

02:21and face things that you can't imagine you don't see in any lifetime movie it's so

02:26much harder and so much worse but they do it with grace and with such

02:30intelligence and so for anyone this is a plea for me for Steven he didn't ask me to

02:34do this anyone so moved all you got to do is call Steven Galloway afterwards and

02:39have your company or have you as an individual give money any amount of money

02:43helps it changes these people's lives I beg you to do it up okay so

02:51Steven asked me to say a little bit about Carrie which Billy did to Billy wrote a

02:56really long thing from India I said that's not gonna happen and so here it is

03:01Carrie really was one of those great you know contradictions she battled mental

03:08illness her entire life and for most of her life she didn't know to call it that

03:13and people didn't know what it was or why she was using drugs or why she had

03:17aberrant behavior or why she couldn't get out of bed at times that was a mood

03:21called Pam the rollicking Roy was the fun guy that's who you counted on coming to

03:26town every once in a while but this was her entire life Carrie's biggest regret was

03:31not being able to be educated she started in show business she's with her mom on

03:35stage and 14 in the show called Irene and it all went from there she shampoo and

03:41then that little thing called Star Wars happened and she used the joke that she

03:45went to the you at to USW which was the University of Star Wars and there were no

03:50professors there there was no education whatsoever cut to Carrie and I meet a

03:56long time she teaches me how to talk literally I didn't know how to talk when I

03:59came from Louisiana but she taught me and Billy's a young child and we're in bed on a

04:04Sunday morning and we're reading the newspaper and I remember it so well

04:08there's a Turner classic movie going on in the background probably a war movie she

04:13liked those not musicals and we I got up to go to the kitchen to get a cup of

04:17coffee and said can I get you anything and she said without missing a beat yes a

04:22professor and I looked at her I said what are you talking about she goes it's just a

04:27dream of mine I want to hire a professor to follow me around and teach me stuff and

04:32so and she meant it she tried to do it it didn't work out so well so today all of

04:41you are making possible and our family's happy to make possible someone's dreams is

04:45to get a professor and to get an education and so I'd like to call up the

04:50winner of the first Carrie Fisher award who is Natalie Lopez I'm a very emotional

04:58person so I'm so sorry I want to thank Stephen and thank you so much Brian for

05:06this scholarship the Hollywood Reporter and Big Brothers Big Sisters has changed

05:11my life and giving me the support when I really needed it I love thank you so much to

05:17my family for always supporting me in my dreams and for giving me a chance at a

05:23better life thank you so much to Kathy she has been there through everything she

05:29has seen my struggle she has seen me being up to three in the morning working

05:34on college applications thank you so much her team

05:39her team at SAG-AFTRA is so inspiring and I can't wait to work in this industry and

05:49be surrounded by you people because you guys are so amazing and I want to make

05:53stories to make sure that I represent my Latino community because we need to be

05:57represented

06:01now more than ever now more than ever so thank you so much and thank you so much to

06:07my teacher Mr. Lemos he's amazing he's my film teacher so thank you so much I know

06:12you're watching this and yes thank you so much I love all of you thank you

06:21to all of the sponsors to all of the people who are supporting this whether it's LMU or Lifetime or Netflix

06:35all of you Brian this is this is special for me because of Carrie and and Debbie

06:43you guys are changing lives if you can give give your support and your money

06:54because you are changing lives and Brian you have a new client she's going to be an

07:00amazing director Chuck you need to hire her all of you guys she's going to be an

07:07amazing director telling amazing stories thank you thank you Steven

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