The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Lilly Singh reads as The Disruptor because she absorbs personal financial risk to open territory no studio will fund. She reinvested her own fees into Doin' It, a raunchy sex comedy centred on women of colour, and named the structural barrier without flinching: studios keep bankrolling white-led failures while projects like hers go ungreenlighted.
“That was not connected to anything external and not connected to what was happening in my life. Because my biggest fear was that the pandemic would be over and then I would have work stuff happening again. And then again, I would just teeter to happy, sad, success, failure, whatever was happening in my life, I would change to my core.”
“I know this show is a win for the community. It has to keep going. It has to keep going or else it's going to be a fail for the community. So I wanted it to keep going. The second part of me was, I really hope this show doesn't keep going because I'm going to literally collapse and die if this keeps going.”
“In order for me to fulfill my ambitions, I want to do stuff with movies and TVs and I want to just do all this other stuff that is me growing in my craft, I cannot stay the same. You have to make space for that.”
“Me and Jay talk about how both of us in some part of our life thought that we wanted to be with someone just like us. Me and Jay are so similar. We in any time anyone is having a disagreement, we take the same side. We always have the same perspective. We're so similar.”
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