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Post by onebluestocking on Dec 15, 2017 5:16:18 GMT
Are you thinking of The Final Problem? That was the episode where some fans were so sure there would be a Johnlock kiss and were angry afterward, and Molly told Sherlock she loved him. It didn't have a female director, though.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 15, 2017 15:03:15 GMT
I’ll watch for him. I did look him up and he’s acted in some respected tv shows in the U.S. and some big name films: The Hateful Eight, Alien Covenant, Dom Hemingway, and Machete Kills (those last two aren’t exactly big name, lol, but have famous directors and casts). He was in Savages with Salma Hayek. I don’t remember anything about the Oscars, but he had already been a regular on Weeds, a very popular and respected tv series, and had been in Stephen Soderbergh’s Che movies. He and his brothers are very respected in Mexico. He was even before his Hollywood career and his Oscar nomination. I recently watched him in this movie about the 1985 earthquake and the film is just him and another excellent Mexican actor, Hector Bonilla trapped in the rubble. It's of course very claustrophobic! Both of them are excellent! It's called "7:19"
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 16, 2017 3:03:59 GMT
This is heartbreaking! Mira Sorvino is a talented actress and it seems incredible that even when she is part of a Hollywood elite family Weinstein could destroy her reputation in that way!
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 16, 2017 3:44:05 GMT
It is heartbreaking! I always liked her and wondered why she disappeared. I did read gossip about her being “difficult”, but I usually take that with a grain of salt. Now we can guess what happened to many of these talented women whose careers evaporated.
I’m glad that Jackson has come forward. So many of these women have felt gaslighted; so this can remove some of their lingering self-doubt. I do find it hard to understand why he paid attention to the Weinsteins. He talks about how much he hated working with them and wouldn’t again. Why take their word for anything? I’m not blaming him. I suspect he’s not making it clear that he wasn’t comfortable ignoring their opinion.
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Post by onebluestocking on Dec 16, 2017 4:11:09 GMT
I like the comment "So................anybody want to calculate the damages for missing being cast in a franchise with a worldwide box office gross of $5,900,000,000?" Maybe they can sue?
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 16, 2017 4:18:13 GMT
I wish they could sue for not being part of that franchise, but they couldn’t possibly prove that they would ultimately have been cast. Jackson just said he liked them, but there were many actresses up for those parts. He would then have to insult women who were chosen by saying he didn’t really want them.
Maybe they could be sued for slander or something similar. I don’t know.
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Post by queenzod on Dec 16, 2017 6:08:06 GMT
This really upset me, too. She’s really an incredible actress. I saw her first in The Buccaneers, the Edith Wharton novel. Superb. I hope she has a good lawyer who can figure out something, because if it’s true he tanked her career then she deserves some kind of compensation. And to have her name cleared.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 16, 2017 7:28:54 GMT
It's not just in show business that this happens.
I had been working for several years when I applied for a promotion and was turned down. I tried again, and again someone else got the job. In both cases, I was more qualified than the person who got the job. Not wanting to be all paranoid, I kept upgrading my qualifications and hoped for the best. But then a restructuring at work got many of us transferred to other departments, and my transfer turned out to be more of a demotion. Almost everyone was upset by their new jobs, so our boss agreed to meet with us individually to discuss our concerns.
During my meeting with the boss, I explained that my transfer was really an entry-level position - the kind of job someone might take right out of school while waiting for the "good" job to happen. But I had been there for ten years! He denied that the job was a demotion, and gave me a speech about all jobs being important. I told him that it was like graduating from university and then being told that I had to go to high school again - I was moving backwards.
Then he told me the truth - that he had had a hard time placing me anywhere because I was "difficult" and nobody wanted to work with me. During my ten years there, I had had several supervisors. Two of them were absolutely horrible, but I thought I had handled myself well. I never complained to anyone higher up, and I never reported my supervisors to my union because I didn't want to be known as "difficult". But I guess my rotten supervisors panicked that I would tell on them, so they set out to destroy my reputation. That way, if I ever did tell anyone about what they'd done, I would have no credibility. I found out years later that one of those supervisors warned everyone at work to stay away from me because I was "trouble". The co-worker who eventually told me this said she dismissed his warning as nonsense. I was devasted! What about all those co-workers who had believed our supervisor and kept away from me because of the warning?
So there I was in the boss's office, crying, saying that it wasn't true. I hadn't done anything to cause anyone problems! But in the back of my mind I was thinking "Why didn't I report and complain about every horrible thing those men had done??" I thought I was protecting myself, but I had actually protected them, instead. My boss told me that he would "think about" possibly changing my transfer, and I was still crying when I left his office. When I got home, I immediately called my Union rep and told her everything. She told me that everyone else who had complained about their transfers had been told "too bad, there's nothing you can do about it". But my situation was different because my boss told me he'd think about it. So she was hopeful.
The next morning, my union rep called me to say that she had spoken to my boss and told him that if he continued with my transfer she would report him to someone (I don't remember who, exactly, but someone even higher up). It turned out that when he told me that I was "difficult", my boss was actually admitting that I was being punished, and apparently there were procedures in place for disciplining employees. My boss and my supervisors had not followed any of the procedures. (Of course not! That would have meant having me tell everyone about what they had done - and they wanted to avoid that at all costs!)
By the end of that day, I had been reassigned to a different department. My new supervisor turned out to be a lovely man! I went to him right away and told him that I knew he'd heard rumours about me. He denied it "No, no - I haven't heard a thing!", but I knew it wasn't true. I asked him to give me a chance to prove the kind of person I really was. "Of course," he told me.
I worked for him for the next two years, and it was wonderful. When I told him that I wanted to apply, again, for a promotion, he said he was sorry to see me go, but he wrote me a terrific reference letter. And I got the job! With my new job came a nice pay raise, but I couldn't help calculating how much I would have been earning if I had gotten my promotion a few years earlier. I know it's not millions, like working for Peter Jackson, but it was significant enough for me.
So speak up, ladies! Being the "good girl" and not wanting to cause problems will never turn out well. And it's not being paranoid to think that someone is spreading nasty rumours about you at work. Tell everyone about what happened to you! Stop protecting powerful men who abuse their power!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 16, 2017 12:15:25 GMT
I’m glad that Jackson has come forward. So many of these women have felt gaslighted; so this can remove some of their lingering self-doubt. I do find it hard to understand why he paid attention to the Weinsteins. He talks about how much he hated working with them and wouldn’t again. Why take their word for anything? I’m not blaming him. I suspect he’s not making it clear that he wasn’t comfortable ignoring their opinion. I’m guessing it was at the beginning of his relationship with them when the Weinstein were still involve with the LOTR movies. Actually Harvey’s lawyers responded to Jackson and Sorvino saying they didn’t have anything to do with the cast process which I guess it’s true. I think by then they were already involve in the legal fighting with Jackson and co. but I imagine there was a window before all that in which all the parties were working together and I can see the brothers giving casual recommendations to Jackson and he didn’t suspecting there was a whole history behind them.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 16, 2017 14:54:57 GMT
I expect that Peter Jackson will find some nice roles for the two actresses in his upcoming movies. There seem to be thousands of people in his casts, so I'm sure he can fit them in. It's the least he could do to make up for his poor judgment. He even managed to find small roles for Stephen Colbert and his family when he found out SC was such a big fan.
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