Today's Blind Items - The Casting Couch Movie
Don't kid yourself if you think the casting couch does not exist. It is alive and well and never going anywhere. That being said, it is rare that the casting couch of today runs to the extreme it did on this film currently being promoted. It stars a foreign born A list mostly movie actor who had a decade run as an A+ lister. He had final casting say on all the women hired to play opposite him. It's unknown how many women he "auditioned" for the roles, but one of the actresses is speaking out about her experiences in the audition process and the actual filming of the movie. She got a part in the movie. A decent sized one. She is probably a B- list mostly movie actress who has been in some really big movies. She is foreign born and had some high profile relationships with A listers, including at least one co-star. She said it was made clear to her that if she wanted a part she would have to sleep with the star. She did and got a part. She was told it was going to be the lead, but it was about fourth billed. The lead actress role went to an actress who is well known, but not any higher on the list than the other actress. Lets call her BO. BO also slept with our actor. She continued to sleep with him during filming. The actor also made all his other co-stars continue to sleep with him or the next day their scenes would be cut or deleted entirely. Our star was more interested in making a movie that starred him anyway and if you would not cooperate then you would not be in it and some other actress who would have sex would get your lines. It is probably because of this back and forth and additions and deletions that the movie is disjointed. Each day of filming the star would tap one of the actresses and tell her she was up for that night. There was no being coy. There was no dinner or romance. They were expected to show up where our actor was staying and leave when the act was finished.
28 comments:
Jeremy Irons/Sienna Miller
or Isabel Lucas/Christian Bale
The Three Cups
It fits irons Miller Elizabeth Moss movie High Rise
cool:)!!
Sounds like Russell Crowe - he's got a movie out with Isabel Lucas who dated Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale & Jared Leto according to the googler.
The Water Diviner, and the lead actress is someone named Olga Kurylenko.
Don't know if it works but: Spectre?
What is Three Cups? The Malick movie with Portman and Blanchett
Lucas dated Thor ,the Joker and Batman? When?
The list of heterosexual A list movie actors who are absolute assholes is too long for me to wade through.
+ 1, anyone with the patience to make a guess.
Russell Crowe for his first directed movie is a great guess
no Three Knights I think,it was secondaru guess lol to High Rise w/Irons/Miller
Wow, a pound of flesh and add your soul, self respect and decency -- all for a damned movie role. Gee thanks but no thanks would have been my answer followed by a long hot shower.
Thor was in 2005, Leto in 2009, and I think she just acted with Bale. She also dated Adrian Grenier and was rumored to be dating Jake Gyllenhaal, so girl has some big career aspirations.
I think you got it. The only way the star would be able to exercise control over what scenes made it into the movie or who was given the lines, would be if he also directed it. IMDB says that Olga Kurylenko was a Bond Girl, so that would fit for the first actress.
I think the movie is The Criminal and the actor is James Franco. Felicity Huffman as the foreign born actress and Gretchen Mol as the other actress who has dated famous men.
"Our star was more interested in making a movie that starred him anyway"
I know it's Enty-speak but this line made me think the star is also the director...foreign born A (used to be A+ for about decade) = Russell Crowe
missed the foreign born thing---not correct
That the High Rise with Hiddles coming out next year? Mmm, I incline rather to the Crowe/Lucas scenario. Irons isn't even A List these days, he's usually more interested in controlled substances, and this seems like it must include a recent directorial job which I can't find for him. And he's 66.
It has to be Crowe. Another thing that fits is the fact that a guy that control freaky and picky will not stay on top for long, and he hasn't. I wonder if Emma Watson had to sleep with him to get in Noah?
when i see Olga Kurylenko- I think of her costarring w/Tom Cruise in 'OBLIVION'
+1^^^ i'm with you @Dena
& Russell Crowe is a chair-breakin' pig
but i think that Isabel not Olga is the one speaking out about it!
Words fail.
Bleurgh, bleuuuurrrrrgh, shudder.
Well, as long as they didn't have to listen to him "sing"…
I hate the whole idea of the casting couch but can't say I have much sympathy for the actresses involved here, they could have always just walked away but made the choice that a movie role was worth prostituting them selves for and more import than their self respect.
Post a Comment