Erin Westerman

There's, you know, there's no s- movie star names attached yet, and it's just a teeny, tiny, very feminist film, and..." [laughs] And luckily for me, Lionsgate is, is just a kind of badass feminist studio in the sense that there's a lot of badass women that run it.

And between Helen and Meredith and Erin Westerman, they just were like, "Yeah.

We wanna do it." And they gave me a negative pickup deal, which was...

It wasn't for a lot, but it was for, it was more than enough, you know? It was more than we were gonna have, and they did not micromanage us, and they kinda let me go make my movie independently with the guarantee that on the opposite side, they were gonna pay us X amount for it.

Okay, so let's look at the quotes.

Erin Westerman, the president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture group, went on record about this acquisition.

Right.

She said that the book spoke to many people on their team who found Sybil's story deeply moving, but the kicker is her explanation for why they won.