Gabrielle Union, Ellen Pompeo, And More Share A Magical Conversation About Sisterhood

If you've been on correct corners of the world wide web within the past few days, there's a good chance you're familiar with Ellen Pompeo's viral plea for diversity in back of the scenes in Hollywood and Gabrielle Union's big mood look of approval. This clip was however a snippet of Porter's insightful "The Big Television Debate," which brought with each other Pompeo, Union, Gina Rodriguez, and Emma Roberts to discuss the issues facing girls in Hollywood today.


The conversation that transpired can practically be turned into a bible for the complete Time's Up movement, touching upon issues including the necessary for equal pay, diversity on stage and off, the value of having each other's backs, why as well as how to be an ally to your peers.


Pompeo — who, immediately after recognizing her contribution to Grey's Anatomy's wild success, renegotiated her contract to be the highest-paid actress in a TV drama — opened the video with a moment of self-awareness, by acknowledging that although she had to put up a fight for her worth, her struggle is much less than that of people "working common jobs." Ultimately, noticing her privilege is what leads her to feel empowered to speak up for those with far less than she has.


Piggybacking off that idea, Rodriguez added that the self-awareness is piece of the problem, noting that culturally, she was raised to be grateful for getting this far, and it's tough to reconcile her appreciation with her hope to ask for more, particularly as soon as it comes to issues of intersectionality, "where white ladies get paid more than black females, black ladies get paid more than Asian females, Asian females get paid more than Latina females she mentioned — prompting an enthusiastic look at who sets these values and who makes the cash they're not getting. Spoiler: It's largely the white males at the best of the Hollywood food chain.


Roberts, who is largely taking this possibility to listen and learn (a silent contribution we can all learn from, if we're being totally sincere, jumps in with an allocate she's encountered as a young actress time and time again: trying to negotiate a supply, only to be warned that there's another girl just like her ready to do the same role for much less, and she can be replaced in a heartbeat.


Nevertheless it was Union's breakdown of the mechanisms of sisterhood that was truly inspiring. Recalling a job that had been turned down by a friend over inadequate compensation then later proposed to Union herself, the actress described how she and every other woman later proposed the job (all of whom happened to run in the same social circle) banned with each other to demand the same payout were they to accept the role. This act of divine sisterhood resulted in the original actress getting the role with a much higher payout than trim asked for in the opening place. "I lose nothing, it was never my job to start with, however I'm gonna ensure she gets paid," Union explained before concluding, "I don't want a job that I'm only getting because they screwed over the next woman."


For all of that and thus much more, watch the complete conversation in the video above.