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Mar 11, 2021 · Yes, it's all of that. According to a report from the University of Southern California's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, women made up 10.6% of the directors of the top 100 grossing movies from 2019 and the highest since the institute began tracking the data in 2007. This year's Oscars could be historic. For the first time in the over 90-year ...
May 9, 2018 · The data across all the awards tells an all-too familiar story of gender exclusion. Almost nine in 10 films (89%) have more men in their 10 or so most senior roles, both acting and non-acting ...
Anyone But You star Sydney Sweeney has said the idea of women supporting each other in the film and TV industry is "fake". In an interview with Vanity Fair, the actress, who's also known for ...
Feb 16, 2018 · The History of Hollywood's Difficult Women. When the revelations of rampant sexual harassment and assault against former Miramax CEO Harvey Weinstein came out last October, industry veterans on social media commented about how much of an open secret it was. In its wake it revealed a string of actresses whose careers, once promising, were ...
- Just six weeks before Sharon Stone was cast in Basic Instinct — which would make her a sex symbol and household name — her manager told her she wasn't getting roles because nobody thought she was sexy.
- Samantha Morton also claimed she lost out on a role in The Brothers Grimm because producers thought she was "unfuckable" — and that Harvey Weinstein had apparently specifically said, 'Who'd fuck that?"
- Amy Adams claimed that she was fired from Dr. Vegas for "not being sexy enough" to play Rob Lowe's love interest, a claim Lowe echoed in his book Love Life, adding that Adams wasn't pretty "in a TV way."
- Fellow redheaded beauty Jessica Chastain was also told she wasn't pretty enough to get roles in Hollywood. "Only in the past five years have people been telling me I’m attractive.
Jan 6, 2019 · Acting veteran Robert De Niro faced his share of rejection in his career. Famously, the actor auditioned for the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather but was passed over in favor of James Caan ...
May 11, 2022 · Despite years of theater training or hours spent memorizing, actors are bound to experience rejection at some point in their career. While most celebrities’ rise to fame can appear seamless ...
