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'Fancy Dance and Passing' producer Nina Yang Bongiovi recalls a meaningful moment with Octavia Spencer during her time working on 'Fruitvale Station' during an "Achieving Gender Equity in Storytelling" conversation presented by STARZ #TakeTheLead and moderated by THR contributing editor Stacey Wilson Hunt.

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00:00If you're Asian, Asian-American, you're supposed to like be quiet and keep your head down and work

00:08hard. And the one person that really influenced me and affected me in the best way was Octavia

00:15Spencer on Fruitvale Station. She saw me bust my ass on that film, right? And then when we were

00:21releasing the movie, she goes, where are you on the red carpet? I go, it's not about me. I don't

00:25want to be there. She goes, from here on out, every event we go to, you're going to walk

00:29with me. And that really affected me so much. She said, I want people to see that a female

00:37producer can do what you did. And I want young women of color to see that they can do what

00:44you do. And I just love her for that because in every event afterwards, she'll text me and

00:56she goes, where are you? Are you hiding? Are you hiding? And then she'll make sure that

01:01we walk. And then when we walked, people would be like, Octavia, single of yourself, move to

01:08the site. And she's like, no, she's my producer. And I was like, oh my God.

01:12So really just a small act of being photographed and having a record of your experience sort

01:18of forever. Like you're in the Getty Image site forever. You have your photo on that

01:23carpet.

01:23Exactly. And now I know how important that is. Because every film I've done, I would go

01:28to a Q&A and women would line up to talk to me. Not talk to all the dudes on my film.

01:33They talk to me. And I would text Octavia and go, you're so right. I'm making a difference.

01:40And it's an evolution of it. And as I go on in my career now of what I fight for is the

01:46producer and title integrity and what we do as producers. And that's really, really

01:51important. And that kind of reflects all the way back to Fruitvale to now.

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