![]() When Lena won the Emmy and was on the cover of Vanity Fair, in her interview, she said that Mary Tyler Moore had been a big inspiration for her and someday she would like to do a documentary about her. I have loved Lena Waithe for a while - before she was famous - I just love her as a person love her as an artist, so we’ve been friends. How did you come to produce “Being Mary Tyler Moore”? You’ve got to believe in yourself and bet on yourself.” Because if you love it, you’ll be good at it. Her advice: “If you’re going to work hard in life, you should do something you love. Like Moore, Martin Chase has a generation of women looking to follow in her footsteps. She was attractive and smart, yet vulnerable and strong, and she was making her way in the world. “It was partly the character, but it was also just her. ![]() “She was a huge inspiration,” she says of Moore. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” had a profound effect on a teenage Martin Chase, who would watch the sitcom with her mother. As Martin Chase notes, Moore’s on-screen counterpart Mary Richards “represented a real woman grappling with these issues, not someone on either extreme.” Directed by Emmy winner James Adolphus, the film examines Moore’s legacy as a trailblazer whose television fame intersected with the feminist movement. “I wanted it casual, but also there’s limited options,” she says with a laugh.įor her next act, Martin Chase teamed with Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad production company for the documentary “ Being Mary Tyler Moore,” which premieres at SXSW on Monday and debuts on HBO and HBO Max in May. Where does she keep the Tony? During our conversation, the trophy is just off camera, perched on her dining room table. And in 2022, Martin Chase won a Tony Award for “A Strange Loop,” one of two Broadway shows she’s produced (the revival of “Topdog/Underdog” being the other) in the past year. ![]() 3 debut, the film has reached the top 10 list in 89 countries. Besides executive producing “The Equalizer” starring Queen Latifah, which has been renewed through Season 4, she produced the Netflix biopic “True Spirit” about Jessica Watson, who sailed around the world unassisted at 16 years old. The past few years have been some of the most fruitful of Martin Chase’s career. “He looked at me and said, ‘I told you that because I knew you would end up here,’” she remembers, growing wistful. ![]() premiere in 2019, Martin Chase and Jordan met again at a dinner party thrown in her honor. A couple days before the Focus Features film’s Washington, D.C. To move forward, she looked to the past, working tirelessly to get the green light for “Harriet,” starring Cynthia Erivo as abolitionist Harriet Tubman. “I needed to reboot myself and my career,” she says. Martin Chase spent the next year reflecting on the way she was doing business and working to find inspiration again. “It was that slap in the face of reality that you need, and it really was a turning point.” You need to figure out how to make this work,’” she recalls with a knowing chuckle. “He let me pour my heart out, then looked at me and, in Vernon’s way, said, ‘You are too old to change careers. It’s time to do something else.’” So she turned to her friend Vernon Jordan, the late civil rights attorney, for wisdom. She thought, “Maybe this is the universe’s way of telling me: ‘You’ve had a good career. As Martin Chase approached 30 years in the business, her passion was slipping away.
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