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53 Q2 2018 / CINEMONTAGE When the dailies came in for that scene, I watched them, but couldn't cut the scene. I went home. I watched the dailies again the next day, but still didn't cut the scene. I worked on something else. I spoke to the director, Kyle Alvarez, and gave him my thoughts on the scene. He agreed with my approach to cutting it. Then the following day, I started piecing the scene together. I did it over the course of a couple days because it was so heavy to deal with. My editor's cut is pretty much what ended up in the show. CM: But 13 Reasons Why does seems to be a helpful show… JG: Going back to what we were talking about on Shots Fired, it's about starting a conversation. It's letting people have a voice to say, "Hey, you know what? I kind of identify with what this character is going through, so maybe there's somebody who I can talk to, that can help me out before I do something stupid." Or, you know, "I saw somebody do something to this person. Let me go talk to someone about it." It's helping a lot of people — and that's what's getting missed in all the hype on the show. CM: Speaking of helping people, can you talk about your experience with diversity in the workplace and working with diverse crews? JG: Diversity is important. Without it, you don't get the whole picture. We all have differences. We come from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. You can always tell the people in the business that don't have any diversity in their background because they're the people who are usually the most insecure around people who aren't like them. When I first started, it was not diverse. In television, where I was working, it was all CONTINUED ON PAGE 72