Out Gay Hunger Games Producer Thinks Being In The Closet In Hollywood Is For Wimps

Nina Jacobson is one of Hollywood’s real power players, having helped oversee movie such as Pirates Of Caribbean and The Sixth Sense as a studio executive at Disney, before going out on her own and producing the massively successful Hunger Games movies.

She is also an out gay woman and as she told The New York Time Magazine, she doesn’t have much time for those in Hollywood who stay in the closet. When asked about whether she thinks it’s a detriment to be out, she answered, “No. If anything, it’s a detriment to be closeted. Being closeted in Hollywood is like wearing a toupee. It suggests that you’re not proud of who you are, and that you’re afraid of people finding out who you are. There are places where you can’t be out for fear of your life, for fear of your livelihood. Hollywood is not one of them. So to be closeted here is tantamount to being a wimp.”

The interview then followed up with whether she thinks mean you can tell is someone is gay but not out. She says, “You can always tell! When I first was coming out to a senior colleague of mine, I said, ‘Do you think the boss knows?’ And he said, ‘Nina, at this point, I think it’s safe to assume everyone knows.'”

The whole interview is worth a read, including Nina relating an incredibly Hollywood story where she learned she’d been fired from Disney on the telephone while her partner was in the delivery room giving birth to their child.