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Amy Siegel

Partner and Co-Chair of the Entertainment, Sports & Media Industry Group at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Century City, Los Angeles.

Aug 11, 2026

41:43
[cheering] Here's Amy live at The Moth.
41:45
Thank you.
41:47
Eight years ago, when my mom was dying, she needed morphine every four hours, and so my sister and I took shifts.
41:55
And one night, after placing the drops under her tongue, because she was mostly unconscious, I pulled some old photo albums off the shelf of her study, and I was flipping through them as I sat cross-legged on her queen-size bed next to her.
42:10
And I had many to choose from, because she made photo albums all the time.
42:15
She was essentially doing Facebook before Mark Zuckerberg was born.
42:19
[laughing] And it wasn't online, but it was the same concept of, "This is my perfect life, and these are my carefully curated postings." Because it was a far f- cry from what was actually happening My mom and dad separated on multiple occasions.
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46:08
[laughs]
14:54
Do the people who win arm wrestling competitions look like they could fucking win an arm wrestling competition?
15:00
In my certain group of women, yes, that was the case.
15:05
Her name was Helga Hammerfist, and she looks exactly as you would imagine.
15:10
And so she was kind of the crown jewel of our group.
15:13
Now, although I am also a lady of husk and have like considerable arms, just like trivia, I was definitely the sizzle.
15:21
I was the Hulk Hogan.
15:23
I was spitting water in the air.

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34:59
Oh, here we go.
4:12
What can they do with that these days, especially in connection with companies potentially buying or lending against these rights?
4:20
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
4:21
So the contingent compensation rights that you're speaking about are really just a profit participation.
4:28
Sometimes they're called back-end points or shares of net profits.
4:32
There's lots of different ways we talk about the same thing, which is participating in the profits of the film or the TV project.
4:40
And while those have been, you know, around for a long time to pay talent, when you speak about a growing area, I think what we're seeing more and more of is opportunities to either lend against those contingent compensation rights or more recent growth, I think, in the area of outright purchasing those contingent compensation rights.
4:59
And in that case, certainly in the outright purchase context, the buyer essentially assumes the risk of the performance of that project, and the seller gets to capture immediate liquidity.

24 MINS LATER

28:54
Look, what I want to do is I want to kind of circle back to all three of you just to see if there's any other opportunities, you know, either where it's cost efficiency or cash flow that we haven't covered that perhaps you wanted to bring up.
4:40
Talk to me about your work at Schitt's Creek and how long you were there on set for and with the production for.
4:47
Yeah, I mean, I was there for six years.
4:49
And, uh...
4:51
Yeah.
4:53
Yeah, we...
4:54
At the last season, I, um... directed a behind the scenes documentary about the show.
5:00
And so I did spend a lot of time with her specifically, you know, we talked about her work within the wardrobe and, um, she, she, she was just, you know, you meet so many celebrities and we worked on e-talk and you meet everyone.
5:40
It's a great doc,

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