If you happen to see photographs of a disheveled and bloody Anne Hathaway wandering around the streets of Manhattan in the coming days, stay calm:
the The Devil Wears Prada alumna is currently filming WeCrashed for AppleTV+.
Based on the podcast of the same name, the drama series will chart the rise (and spectacular fall) of the $47 billion shared office-space company WeWork,
which filed for an IPO in 2019 only for allegations of misleading financial projections/a toxic workplace culture/general corporate awfulness to go viral on Twitter.
Behind the smoke-and-mirrors-style business? Wildly charismatic CEO Adam Neumann, whom investors forced to step down, and his wife Rebekah,
a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow’s and WeWork’s Chief Brand Officer.
Many of the more headline-grabbing complaints about WeWork centred on the tequila-swilling, new-age duo’s outlandish behaviours.
According to the New York Times, Adam once impulsively decided to ban meat from all WeWork spaces (while maintaining an ice bath in his C-suite), and The Guardian notes that Rebekah allegedly fired multiple staffers for having “bad vibes”. There are even reports of WeWork hiring Run-DMC to perform immediately following a meeting announcing cost-cutting redundancies, and of an employee being summoned to a resort in the Maldives for a quick in-person chat about the IPO rather than Neumann disrupting his surfing holiday with a phone call.
Adam announced he would be stepping down in September of 2019 with a brief statement: “While our business has never been stronger, in recent weeks, the scrutiny directed toward me has become a significant distraction, and I have decided that it is in the best interest of the company to step down as chief executive.” He issued a further comment through a representative following the appointment of two co-CEOs to replace him: “WeWork is one of the fastest growing companies ever and while there may have been some growing pains, the results speak for themselves: a nurturing work environment that is inspiring, respectful, and attuned to bringing out the best in people.”
Outside of the corporate sphere, the Neumanns’ lifestyle proved equally wild, from their 10,000-square foot Bay Area estate, complete with a guitar-shaped living room, to their obsession with flying around the world in private jets (in spite of their alleged fanatical devotion to sustainability). Famously, Neumann even left a “sizeable chunk” of marijuana on a Gulfstream G650 at one point in 2019.
WeCrashed, then, will trace the growth of the company in line with the evolution of the Neumanns’ relationship, with Jared Leto playing the Adam to Hathaway’s Rebekah, and while the series will be worth watching for the schadenfreude alone, the clothes will also be a major talking point – featuring a wealth of cringe-inducing fashion staples and pairings from the 2010s. Exhibit A: this unholy union of a beanie, leggings, and Birkenstocks. Exhibit B: the flared blue jeans and snakeskin boots Hathaway wore to film in Manhattan on 8 June. Let the unapologetic mockery commence.
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Source: Tampa Bay Times
