Four For Friday - Break Up And Lose A Career
All the answers this week to the blind items are people who have never previously been an answer to a blind in the past decade.
A few years ago I was having lunch with this actress and I asked her what happened. I didn't even need to ask anything more than that and she knew what I was referring to. Our actress is B list. At the onset of her career she landed some big breaks, and they did what they were supposed to do. They catapulted her into a lead role on a network show that went on to be a hit. She was on it from the very beginning. Everyone loved her. They loved her character and the writers had tons of material and her character would have given them more freedom to explore some things and not get buttonholed into one scenario. That buttonholing eventually did happen and the show ended. Our actress has had a resurgence of late which seems odd to say because she is not that old. Just barely on the far side of 30. She has had a couple straight years of main roles on network shows but they went nowhere. The thing is though she pretty much had to take whatever was offered because of what happened on that show which first aired almost a decade ago. During meetings for the show, our actress started dating one of the producers. She had already landed the gig and actually had not even met him prior to landing the gig. She said that at first everything was fine and it was like any other new relationship. It was after about a month though when she started spending more time with him that she began to realize he was drinking too much and that when he was drinking he got violent. She made it clear he never hit her but he did threaten her and he would scream and yell at other people. He thought he was the s**t because he had a network show about to air and he was basically a prick to everyone he encountered while drunk. Even when sober she realized he was not the guy she wanted to be with. So, she broke up with him. He didn't make it seem like it was a big deal and she suspected he was probably sleeping with three or four women and that she could easily be replaced. Two days later she gets a call from her agent and he tells her she has been cut from the show. Not an episode, but the entire show. Despite promos that had aired and interviews she had given for the new season, she was gone. Her character was eliminated. Well. she decided to make a fuss about what happened and that lasted about a day. She ended up being paid for the entire season and also had to sign a settlement saying she wouldn't discuss it and wouldn't sue. The thing is though, since she couldn't tell her side of the story, the only thing out there were rumors. Those rumors cost her about four years of work before she got another chance at a main role in a show. Everyone assumed she had caused trouble on the set or was a crap actress and no one was willing to hire her. She basically had to go back to square one like she just came to Hollywood with no experience. The only thing she had going for her was a decent agent who kept sending her out.
Kristin Kreuk, Smallville?
ReplyDeleteThis makes little sense the way it's written, she was on a show from the very beginning everybody loved her says the first part, the second part says she got fired before an episode even ran and she was paid off?
ReplyDeleteKristin has worked pretty steadily.
ReplyDeleteI read it as she was not in any episodes for the season she got fired before (where she was in the promos). So she had performed for a few years, but after this breakup, unceremoniously got dropped.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Brooke Smith, who played Dr. Hahn on Grey's Anatomy (but was written out in 2008). She didn't get another regular gig until Ray Donovan in 2013.
ReplyDelete"Despite promos that had aired and interviews she had given for THE NEW SEASON, she was gone". Implying other seasons had already happened.
ReplyDeleteIt's worded like shit, as always!
Nevermind.. she's been married for a long time. Also, her character came on in season 2.
ReplyDeleteIt is worded like shit for sure.
ReplyDeleteMoira Kelly? West Wing?
ReplyDeleteShe's almost 50, doesn't meet the age bit. "Just barely on the far side of 30."
ReplyDeleteCote de Pablo (character Ziva Davis) on NCIS? He character disappeared for undisclosed reasons in 2013. She didn't get cast in another show until 2016 or so (Prototype, on SyFy), although it wasn't picked up.
ReplyDeleteShe's 37, too, so fits the age range.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the blinds, she had/has other serious issues that led to her firing.
ReplyDeleteit's good to brooke so much again, in bates motel and now fargo. every time i see her tho i hear tom petty singing "she's an american girl" (from her first scene in silence of the lambs).
ReplyDeleteoops, make that in bates motel and now in bosch. i watched too much tv today.
ReplyDeleteShe wasn't on ncis "from the very beginning."
ReplyDeleteI was going to guess SMG (Buffy), but she just turned 40.
This should be easier, An actress that became well known with a lead role on a network hit that premiered 2008-2010 who suddenly wasn't in the show anymore...I got nothing dammit
ReplyDeleteBuffy disappeared from a show called BUFFY the Vampire slayer? The age isn't the only issue with your guess
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY thing im pretty sure of in this blind is shes 37 like me..
ReplyDeleteThis reads like a fucking horror story. Shudders.
ReplyDeleteThe actress doesn't sound like she deserved any of what happened to her.
Sasha Alexander: NCIS
ReplyDeleteNCIS started in 2003 I think that's a wee bit more than "almost a decade ago"
ReplyDeleteHasn't really had any kind of "resurgence" lately either. Two projects, neither of which has any info on imdb (plots, pictures, one doesn't even have a release year). Been on R&I up til last year, a few episodes of Shameless, and she's 43 now.
ReplyDeleteKatherine Heigl from Grey's?
ReplyDeleteKate Walsh - Grey's, Private Practice - now on 13 reasons why? not sure if she had any sudden departures though.
ReplyDeleteElisha Cuthburt, cut from '24'.
ReplyDeleteHappy Endings was good but wasnt renewed. Nows she's on the Ranch. She's about 37 now.
If some of the information given are red herrings, Katherine Heigl fits. Otherwise I have no clue.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like a TON of fun to hang out with, Genet! /s
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