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Six years ago, Obst was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, better known as COPD, or as Obst calls it, “Spanish for ‘I fucked up my lungs.’ ” It is incurable, progressive and often fatal, a life-altering blow.
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“I have to write about this misplaced horror,” Obst unloaded on Facebook, offering a history lesson pulled from personal experience, reminding her readers that comedies rarely fare well at the Academy Awards in top categories.
She’s still actively producing — through her eponymous production company, Obst is steering a slate of five films stacked with of-the-moment stars like Melton, Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones, as well as two TV projects at Sony, where she has an overall deal and an office.
Raised in Harrison, New York, a Westchester County suburb, Obst studied philosophy at Pomona College as an undergrad and at Columbia University for graduate school, eventually specializing in the 19th century likes of Hegel and Kant, which, she says, “you can really get stuck in because it’s indescribably dense and hard to read.
Obst developed it for years and set it up with Dawn Steel at Paramount Pictures, but ultimately had to fight to keep her credit on the film, as producing duties were handed over to more influential Hollywood players like Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer and her Casablanca bosses.
I realized that to be a producer, you could be more of an independent actor and choose to work on what you loved.” Though he was dismayed by her departure, Geffen set Obst on the path to her next professional phase when he encouraged her to put an end to a rift she’d had with Paramount chief Steel over Flashdance.
Obst was widely credited with rescuing the 1994 all-female Western Bad Girls — starring Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson and Drew Barrymore — from an utterly calamitous shoot.
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