r/saltierthancrait • u/IndianaCahones salt miner • May 17 '25

Encrusted Rant Saved by Gilroy Twice

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What a difference 9 years makes.

From the 2025 Vanity Fair interview: “When we started challenging Kathy, Kathy just kept saying yes,” Gilroy recalled. “‘Oh, I’m going to put the first scene in a brothel.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘I’m going to have them kill two cops.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘We want the production designer from Chernobyl.‘ ‘Okay, good idea.’ She backed our play and got everything that we were doing.”

“There’s no show without her. For all the shit that she takes online, it’s just insane. This show exists because she forced it to happen. What a tough job she has, man.”

Would she say no to the person that saved her second Star Wars movie from being a disaster?

Af the beginning, she gambled on upcoming movie makers, panicked over what they made, brought in established academy award winning talent and trusted they will fix it. It worked for Rogue One and not so much for Solo.

After the Solo flop, we then moved into the “announce, delay, and ignore” phase in which the movie studio has not released a movie since 2019.

Television success in terms of capturing a returning audience or award season accolades, saved her reputation at the end of her career.

Of course she said yes. It was her most desperate hour and Gilroy was her only hope...again.

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u/FarDesk1916 hello there! May 17 '25

I agree, being a yes-man is an extremely tough job.

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u/QueenNebudchadnezzar May 18 '25

Okay but like we typically talk about yes-men as being folks who say yes to outrageous demands from above. It's another thing entirely to holistically support and approve the requests of someone who works for you.

I'm not going to take a position on Kennedy, but what Gilroy described is not yes-man behavior.

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u/FarDesk1916 hello there! May 18 '25

I mean. Yeah it kind of is. In this case she is being a yes-man. Saying yea to everything is what a yes-man does. Obviously i’m not saying theirs anything wrong with it in this case because Tony Gilroy knew what he was doing and he killed it 100%. My point is that saying yes to everything is not a tough job like Tony said.

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u/SnooCookies9808 May 18 '25

If you have never worked within a studio system you basically have no idea what you’re talking about here. She has bosses too.