Bela Bajaria

It was just pages and pages of a handwritten test.

And when I got the job, finally, and I think she kind of gave it to me because it had been so long.

And I said, like, I can't keep coming to you.

Like, how many more times am I going to interview with you?

Also, my parents gave me good advice.

They're like, you should just tell her, like, just do a trial.

Like, you don't have an assistant anyways.

You might as well try me for 30 days and let me temp.

And then I pitched that.

And then she said, like, oh, it's kind of big corporation.

Like, we can't just, like, I can't kind of trial you and fire you in 30 days.

But then I think just even proposing that, she was like, okay, fine.

And when I got into the business at that time, and that was 96,

It's March of 96.

Here we are exactly 30 years.

And when I got into the business, I feel like I was in for a few months where like I knew enough at that point about the business.

I mean, I barely do anything, but I understood kind of how it worked.

And that's really when I was like, oh, I want to run a TV studio.

That was kind of early days of I wanted to be on the studio side.

I wanted to be closer to the making of things, working closer with writers and directors and just the more of the making because the studio kind of is definitely more of that.