Young Hollywood’s Stephanie Varela Rheingold & Cava

Hollywood Uncorked

Hollywood is leaner than ever – smaller staffs, tighter budgets, fewer studio opportunities. But is this environment perversely suited to today’s young Hollywood aspirants, who are digital natives and came of age fully expecting the scramble of the gig economy? In this episode we talk about the hopes and expectations of Millennials in Hollywood with one of their own: Stephanie Varela Rheingold. At 28, she’s ridden the chaos of the business to work throughout the entertainment universe – from agency jobs, production gigs, making music videos, and even in social media. While drinking glasses of Cava (champagne’s cheaper Spanish cousin) we talk with Stephanie about how Hollywood’s new generation is using the stagnation of the business as an opportunity to build diverse experience across its many facets – with fewer expectations and a greater thirst for variety than perhaps any generation before them.