Unlike many people, I'm not the kind to tell actors to "shut up an act". Not only is there this wacky thing called "freedom of speech", I support anything that makes them look foolish. It makes us all feel better about ourselves and reminds us that not everything spoken is worth hearing.
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| The look of depression. |
like when, as he put it on a recent podcast, "sometimes you find yourself in a movie that you know perhaps might not be what you had hoped it would be and you’re still making it", and that such an experience can lead to "depression".
Well, who can't relate to having a job that does nothing for you psychologically or spiritually? Speaking personally, during my last full-time job, management saved me the trouble of jumping out the window by laying me off. But here's the difference. Depending on the budget, Matt earns between 10- and 26-million dollars per picture. Let me tell you, friend, if that was my salary, the only depression I'd feel is not being able to make even more movies than I already was.
By the way, Matt -- when you say a project "might not be what you had hoped it would be", you did read the script first, didn't you?
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| Little Tom, happy at last. |
Holland's reaction to such good fortune? "I am a massive fan of making movies, but I really do not like Hollywood. It is not for me. The business really scares me." He made these comments on a podcast that he described as a "safe space". By safe space, I think that means he knew that the host wouldn't ask, "Well, Tom, if Hollywood is such a terrible place to be, why don't you move back to the UK? Is it because the weather here is nicer? Better restaurants? I mean, it couldn't be that seven-figure salary, could it?"
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| Y'know, I'd take this over L.A. anytime. |
A-lister, you lose your privacy. That's why Harrison Ford moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming a long time ago, and returns only to make movies. Someone should tell Tom that Wyoming's a big state with more than a few ranches for sale. And if its citizens leave a legend like Harrison Ford alone, Tom Holland should have no problem with privacy.
Yes, once again I'm being snarky -- snarky for making fun of one guy who cries for privacy yet has an Instagram page where the world can see photos and videos of him at work and play, and another guy who needs to refill his Paxil prescription upon realizing his next movie will score only 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
But these fellows might want to consider that the 98% of the population not lucky enough to make a living as actors really don't want to hear how tough they have it. Unlike most working stiffs, they could quit today and live pretty darned comfortably for the rest of their lives. They wouldn't even have to pay publicists anymore!
And no matter how in the right actors are in their fight with producers, it's not going to move "civilians" to join them in solidarity on the picket line, no matter that one of them was on the morning news today demanding that SAG-AFTRA members be "paid what they're worth." That fellow was Matt "$26-million Man" Damon.
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Those actors live in such a different world that I think their expectations get super-pumped-up. I suppose many of them have "posses" and/or outright gofers who hang on their every word. It's gotta shift one's thinking into unreasonably high levels of entitlement.
Maybe it’s always been this way, but people who work in Hollywood associate with no one who doesn’t also work in Hollywood. They have their own language and effectively, their own economy. The most successful of them never hear “no” and wouldn’t recognize someone from middle America if they fell from the sky and landed in their huge infinity pool. Whether it’s politics or culture, they are NEVER exposed to an opposing view. It’s a cesspool of ego.
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