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CDAN March 26th 2024 – He Married A Casting Couch Professional

CDAN March 26th 2014 – He Married A Casting Couch Professional

Blind Item #1
This B list mostly movie actress is still a minor. Her "boyfriend" introduced her to another man who is well over twice her age. The "boyfriend" was paid for this transaction. It turns out he did something similar with a few of his former "girlfriends." He uses his profession which doesn’t make him much money as a way to meet women who would be open to the possibility.

Blind Item #2
This A+ list mostly movie actor had a meeting this week. During the meeting a woman waited alone at another table until our might as well be Married actor to an A+ list mostly movie actress finished. She then got up and the he put his arm around her before they went back up to the room they had come from before he had his meeting.
Popular Guess: Brad Pitt

Blind Item #3
This B- list mostly movie actress is still married. She and her celebrity husband have definitely hit a rough patch. Part of the reason might be the fling she is having with her publicist. The two are inseparable.
Popular Guess: Paula Patton

Blind Item #4
This DWTS pro made an advertising agency go through three different production assistants until he found one who was attractive to him and would also flirt with him during the one hour shoot. The one he chose did turn him down after when he suggested they go to his hotel for a quickie because he didn’t have time to take her to dinner.
Popular Guess: Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Blind Item #5
"Fine. The you can just go wait back in the trailer and your sister will be a star."- B- list mostly television actress with A list **** recognition who was shooting a commercial with some of her kids. Apparently one of the kids was upset about something and crying so she was banned from the shoot by her mom while another kid got to stay.
Popular Guesses: Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth

Blind Item #6
This C+ list actress turned to acting after a career as an A list entertainer(athlete). She and her A list mostly movie actor boyfriend are having issues. Might have something to do with the fact he cheats on her every week and is not shy about sharing photos and movies she made for him with his friends.
Popular Guess: Gina Carano and Henry Cavill

Blind Item #7
This B list mostly television actor who always talks about his family values and doesn’t take roles that compromise his values was at a strip club in Tijuana this weekend. I wonder what his wife thinks about that.
Popular Guess: Kirk Cameron, Ricky Schroder, Neal McDonough

Today’s Blind Items – He Married A Casting Couch Professional
actor has been around forever. he has been in tons of shows and some movies too. He has waited and waited for his big break and he finally got it. He also got a wife to go with that big break. His wife is an actress. She has been in a string of highly forgettable movies and each of those movies she secured via the Casting couch. None of you have heard of her even though she has been in almost twenty movies. She is also a favorite of directors and producers as last minute arm candy for a red carpet and they know they will get lucky at the end of the night. When our actor finally got cast for his big break he happened to go to a party that night and was telling everyone his good fortune. Our actress was there and heard his story and the next thing you know there was a whirlwind romance and within two weeks they got married. She has even managed to land a recurring role in his big break. Funny how that happened. Her biggest role. Our actor has no idea about the reputation of the actress except there were some unexplained late night visits from people to her apartment while they were dating. She has since got a new phone number and moved in with our actor. Neither of these people have been in a blind before.

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CDAN May 05th 2024 – Her Casting Couch Start

CDAN May 05th 2014 – Her Casting Couch Start

Blind Item #1
This seemingly goody goody B- list mostly television actress from a hit cable show that has seen other co-stars in this space before is now here too because of her little coke problem. A coke problem brought about because of her boyfriend who has always been a big user. Apparently she is trying to fit in with him and his friends and started using, and can’t stop.
Popular Guess: Shay Mitchell

Blind Item #2
This former star NFL quarterback, who may or may not have a job and team this season despite being a huge **** as recently as two years ago was spotted at a very high profile event this weekend and was crazy drunk. So drunk that he kept asking women to show him their breasts and kept grabbing women to tell them who he was and how they should hook up with him.
Popular Guess: Mark Sanchez

Blind Item #3
This married A- list performer(singer) is usually on the receiving end of cheating rumors. Over the weekend though, it was she who was doing the making out with a member of her band.
Popular Guess: Miranda Lambert

Blind Item #4
This A-/B+ list mostly movie actor with some sobriety issues was eating dinner at a hotel and also got a room where he escape to several times during the meal. Strange.

Blind Item #5
The marriage of this foreign born A list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner/nominee is in trouble because of her husband’s drug use. People warned her before she married that this was likely.
Popular Guess: Kate Winslet

Blind Item #6
This B- list actress who was last seen on a very hit almost television show was shaking so bad while at an event where she was featured that the organizers called paramedics just to have them on standby.
Popular Guesses: Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning

Blind Item #7
Despite becoming a huge fashion mogul, this former A list performer(singer)/reality star was not invited to the Mat Gala this year because Anna Wintour thinks the fashion brand and the normal style of our A lister is beneath the Gala. I disagree.
Popular Guess: Jessica Simpson

Blind Item #8
This former A+ list mostly movie actor still was arguably the greatest at one role which has seen many actors. He has a significant other but for the past two weeks has been spotted emerging from the home of this A list mostly movie actress after her kids go to school.
Popular Guesses: Someone who played Bond, Someone who played Batman

Blind Item #9
This B+ list celebrity, is an actress of sorts. She says that her career has nosedived since hooking up with this A+ list mostly movie actor because he kept telling all of his friends about what they did and that now she gets calls from them asking for the same thing and lots of places where she used to work no longer want to book her.
Popular Guesses: Dita Von Teese and Russell Crowe, Stacy Keibler and George Clooney

Today’s Blind Items – Her Casting Couch Start
This actress is probably B-. She should maybe be slightly lower ****d on her **** of work, but she has great **** recognition which keeps her in that B range. Our actress did not Start off in show business as an actress, although her fame certainly preceded her before she began acting. She was A list and then started moving slowly down the ladder as she tried desperately to get a part. She needed a big break. She knew she could make it as an actress, but, because of her past, no one would give her a shot. Well, enter this, at the time, A+ list mostly movie actor who had a thing for our actress. Sure, he was married, but, that never really stopped him when he wanted to be with someone. He controlled Casting for the female lead in his new movie and he sampled several actresses before he was informed that our actress wanted the part. She agreed to sleep with him for the part, but because she did have some power she told him that if he backed out, that she would expose him to the world and she would not be bullied into accepting some smaller role. It was the lead or nothing. Our actor agreed and our actress has had quite the acting career since.
Popular Guess: Vanessa Williams and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michael B. Jordan [The Human Torch in Fantastic Four] responds to casting criticism

Michael B. Jordan [The Human Torch in Fantastic Four] responds to casting criticism

Michael B. Jordan: Why I’m Torching the Color Line

When Marvel announced who would be playing The Human Torch in ”Fantastic Four,” the Internet responded. Now it’s the actor’s turn.
by Michael B. Jordan

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Posted May 222020 — 3:58 PM EDT

You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes—I wanted to check the pulse out there. I didn’t want to be ignorant about what people were saying. Turns out this is what they were saying: “A black guy? I don’t like it. They must be doing it because Obama’s president” and “It’s not true to the comic.” Or even, “They’ve destroyed it!”

It used to bother me, but it doesn’t anymore. I can see every****’s perspective, and I know I can’t ask the audience to forget 50 years of comic books. But the world is a little more diverse in2020 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Plus, if Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, “You’re good. I’m okay with this,” who am I to go against that?
Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.” Or they could look at it as a creative choice by the director, Josh Trank, who is in an interracial relationship himself—a reflection of what a modern family looks like today.
This is a family movie about four friends—two of whom are myself and Kate Mara as my adopted sister—who are brought together by a series of unfortunate events to create unity and a team. That’s the message of the movie, if people can just allow themselves to see it.
Sometimes you have to be the person who stands up and says, “I’ll be the one to shoulder all this hate. I’ll take the brunt for the next couple of generations.” I put that responsibility on myself. People are always going to see each other in terms of race, but maybe in the future we won’t talk about it as much. Maybe, if I set an example, Hollywood will start considering more people of color in other prominent roles, and maybe we can reach the people who are stuck in the mindset that “it has to be true to the comic book.” Or maybe we have to reach past them.
To the trolls on the Internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.
Michael B. Jordan: Why I’m Torching the Color Line | EW.com

Cameron Crowe Apologizes for Casting Emma Stone as Asian American

Cameron Crowe Apologizes for Casting Emma Stone as Asian American

خليجيةCourtesy of Columbia Pictures.


Almost immediately following Aloha’s release, the Internet had much to say about the Casting of Emma Stone as Allison Ng, a character who is one-fourth Asian. (Vulture called the decision a “Big White Nope” in its headline, while Jezebel asked “Literally Why” in its.) Now director Cameron Crowe has weighed in, posting a blog entry in which he responds to the criticisms about the Stone casting. “I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided Casting choice,” he writes, going on to explain that the Ng character was meant to represent “a super-proud ¼ Hawaiian who was frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like one,” and that she was “based on a real-life red-headed local.”

Crowe notes that the film was able to employ “many Asian-American, Native-Hawaiian and Pacific-Islanders, both before and behind the camera.” He also urges that any “blame” related to the Casting should be placed squarely on him, and not on Stone. He concludes the note, “I am grateful for the dialogue. And from the many voices, loud and small, I have learned something very inspiring. So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.”

The entire letter is copied below:

From the very beginning of its appearance in the Sony Hack, “Aloha” has felt like a misunderstood movie. One that people felt they knew a lot about, but in fact they knew very little. It was a small movie, made by passionate actors who wanted to join me in making a film about Hawaii, and the lives of these characters who live and work in and around the island of Oahu.

Thank you so much for all the impassioned comments regarding the Casting of the wonderful Emma Stone in the part of Allison Ng. I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided Casting choice. As far back as 2024, Captain Allison Ng was written to be a super-proud ¼ Hawaiian who was frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like one. A half-Chinese father was meant to show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii. Extremely proud of her unlikely heritage, she feels personally compelled to over-explain every chance she gets. The character was based on a real-life, red-headed local who did just that.

Whether that story point felt hurtful or humorous has been, of course, the topic of much discussion. However I am so proud that in the same movie, we employed many Asian-American, Native-Hawaiian and Pacific-Islanders, both before and behind the camera… including Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele, and his village, and many other locals who worked closely in our crew and with our ****** to help ensure authenticity.

We were extremely proud to present the island, the locals and the film community with many jobs for over four months. Emma Stone was chief among those who did tireless research, and if any part of her fine characterization has caused consternation and controversy, I am the one to blame.
I am grateful for the dialogue. And from the many voices, loud and small, I have learned something very inspiring. So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Thanks again, Cameron Crowe

Cameron Crowe Has Addressed the Emma Stone Aloha Casting Controversy | Vanity Fair