Chameleon

I cannot stop listening to Campside’s new podcast CHAMELEON: HOLLYWOOD CON QUEEN. The series follows journalists Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriadis as they attempt to figure out who was actually responsible for a decade-long con targeting workers at the bottom of the Hollywood power structure. What makes this podcast so compelling is the peculiar nature of the con itself. The con artist masquerades as various powerful female executives in Hollywood and offers day players, trainers, and makeup artists their big break on a high budget movie in Jakarta….all they have to do is get on a plane. But when the plane lands, they quickly discover there is no producer. There is no movie. It’s all a fraud. Which brings us to the central question CHAMELEON tries to answer: Who was going through all this trouble to make a few 100 dollars per con?

—Lucy Putnam, Development Assistant