Is it too late to make Julie Andrews the Queen of the United States? No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up for the WrapWomen newsletter and join our community of empowered women at: (From top left clockwise): Miranda July, Linda Berman, MyKhanh Shelton, Johanna Faries, Julie Uhrman and Rachel Ghiazza My Isolation Diary Dear Diary, Is it too late to make Julie Andrews the Queen of the United States? Last week TheWrap hosted TheGrill which - unlike Tuesday's presidential debate - was filled with productive conversations that addressed COVID-19, female empowerment, social justice and innovation. In case you missed it, I've put together a list of highlights below: - “Kajillionaire” writer and director Miranda July revealed how watching “Mission Impossible” on TV motivated her to make a heist film for women. - Producer Linda Berman proclaimed that "necessity breeds invention" in response to filmmaking post-COVID. - WarnerMedia’s MyKhanh Shelton opened up about “leaning in” to discomfort and "building the muscle” for social change. - Audible's Rachel Ghiazza uncovered the recent "pop in family and kids listening" with audiences "wanting to be more informed." - Julie Uhrman, president of Angel City Football Club, spoke about how the pandemic forced her to build LA's female soccer team "completely different" than she had imagined. - Johanna Faries, Commissioner of Call of Duty Esports at Activision Blizzard addressed preventing toxicity in gaming culture. Check-out additional event coverage here. Chadwick Boseman Secured Equal Pay for Sienna Miller on Their Movie by Cutting His Own Salary(Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) The celebrity tributes continue to pour in for Chadwick Boseman, who lost his battle with cancer in August. His "21 Bridges" costar Sienna Miller is the latest, revealing to Empire that Boseman actually forfeited some of his salary on the film to make sure she had equal pay. “He was a fan of my work, which was thrilling, because it was reciprocated from me to him, tenfold,” she told Empire. “So he approached me to do it, he offered me this film, and it was at a time when I really didn’t want to work anymore. I’d been working nonstop and I was exhausted, but then I wanted to work with him.” Miller asked for a salary that the studio said no to, but Boseman stepped in to make things right. “I said, ‘I’ll do it if I’m compensated in the right way.’ And Chadwick ended up donating some of his salary to get me to the number that I had asked for,” she said. “He said that that was what I deserved to be paid.” NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Plans to Cast Her Ballot for 2020 Election from Space(Credit: Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images) NASA astronaut Kate Rubins plans to cast her vote for the upcoming 2020 presidential election from space – more than 200 miles above Earth.Speaking with the Associated Press, Rubins, 41, discussed the importance of voting and implored others that if she can do it, then they can as well. "I think it's really important for everybody to vote," she said. "If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground, too," Rubins said. Rubins voted from space in the 2016 election, according to CBS News. "There's been legislation passed a number of years ago to allow astronauts to vote in space," Rubins said. "I think a lot of astronauts do this, they feel that it is very important. It's critical to participate in our democracy." Ruth Bader Ginsburg Delivered The Best Career Advice You'll Ever Hear, In Just One Sentence (Credit: Sebastian Kim / August) With the passing of the iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I wanted to share one of her most important nuggets of career advice. And it's an insight that will apply to everyone, regardless of your career stage. Four years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote an article in the New York Times in which she offered her advice for living. In the article, she says: "Another often-asked question when I speak in public: "Do you have some good advice you might share with us?" Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. "In every good marriage," she counseled, "it helps sometimes to be a little deaf." I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade." A Complete Breakdown of How Royal Family Members Feel About ‘The Crown’(Credit: Netflix) The fourth season of "The Crown" is set to hit Netflix on November 15, 2020. The Times reports that Buckingham Palace does get a heads up from the show about plot points before a new season goes into production. However, there's no information on what — or if — the palace or its residents have objected to anything or requested changes, but here's what we do know. Insiders note that Elizabeth enjoyed the show's first season, but took issue with the second. A senior royal courtier told Express that the queen was "upset by the way Prince Philip is depicted as being a father insensitive to his son’s wellbeing. She was particularly annoyed at a scene in which Philip has no sympathy for a plainly upset Charles while he is flying him home from Scotland. That simply did not happen." Camilla Parker Bowles's nephew, Ben Elliot, told Vanity Fair that his aunt enjoys the series — though she "wasn't looking forward to the bits to come." Biographer Katie Nicholl wrote in her book "Harry: Life, Loss, and Love" that Meghan and Harry enjoyed staying in and "watching films and TV shows like 'The Crown' on Netflix." 24-Year-Old Author and Poet Aija Mayrock Released a New Book During Quarantine(Credit: The Bare Magazine) Aija Mayrock was a teen when she faced some painful issues due to bullying. She decided then that she’d write a book to help others deal with similar challenges. At the age of 21 she became a #1 best selling author of "The Survival Guide to Bullying." Last month, at age 24, Mayrock published her first book of poetry, "Dear Girl." It’ll take you on a lyrical journey and leave you feeling inspired, fascinated and empowered. "There are so many messages that I hope readers will take from 'Dear Girl,'" said Mayrock. "I think every reader will take something different and see each poem in a different light. On one of the last pages in the book, I write "for those who came here seeking, I hope you found what you were looking for.” Whether or not readers opened this book searching for something or some feeling, I hope they came away with gems of resilience, empowerment, love for yourself, and deeper love for others." Who Run the World?! Girls. WrapWomen is a power base of influential women of entertainment, media, technology and brands committed to changing the face of their industries. 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