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He absolutely isn’t. But he’s been utterly taken to the cleaners by his many many divorces and needs the money. 

Without wanting to downplay any suggestion that this guy’s a massive creep, I do have to chuckle a little at the way the article initially claims he ‘paraded a high profile porn star’ around in the writer’s room as if he had her naked and filming a hardcore scene in front of all the creative team to their discomfort,…

Honestly, this is modern AV Club. You might as well ask why the tide comes in wet. It’s likely a legitimate error as much as anything else. 

I’m not ‘making anything up’. I just thought that’s what you were trying to say. We’ve obviously just got some wires crossed; I may have just misunderstood you.

AND BARACK OBAMA IS SCAAAAAAAAAAARED O’ME

Sorry, but I’m not strawmanning you; you’re the one who brought up Mel Gibson, and in a way that suggests that Cox working with him is a reason to be suspicious of him. I’m just pointing out that Brian Cox only ever worked with him at a point well before it was considered controversial to do so.

Okay, but on the flip side it’s not like Brian Cox is appearing in Ben Shapiro films on the regular. Like, one of the films you’re using to cast suspicion on Cox for appearing in was Braveheart and the other, so far as I can tell, is just some cookie-cutter exorcist-horror film from 2016. They’re both fairly…

Fair enough, I’m quite happy to drop it as well. Though in total fairness, I’m also quite happy for you to clarify your point as well.

In total fairness, like EmptyBox said, it’s more like people keep getting asked about them.

According to IMBD he’s worked with each of those actors precisely once, though, and in Mel Gibson’s case it was back in 1995, way before any sketchy behaviour was public knowledge. It’s not like he’s a frequent collaborator with either of them, and frankly if we’re going to start suspecting people by who they happened…

Brian Cox has been the dictionary definition of ‘jobbing actor’ since the early 1960s; he’s probably worked with three quarters of the British and American acting community by this point.

Alternatively, he’s old as balls and either doesn’t know all of Bryan Singer’s dirty laundry or doesn’t really give a fuck about the consequences of expressing a vaguely positive opinion about him. ‘Cause what’s the internet going to do, cancel him? He’s like eighty years old, his career’s in it’s twilight either way.

I remember reading somewhere that it’s also an adaptation of an Ed McBain novel.

Because they were too big for the French to steal and then in turn get stolen by the British?

It’s almost like superheroes are by and large simply-constructed characters drawn from the same general mythical archetypes for the purposes of being enjoyed largely by children (at least initially).

On the flip side, in 1993 people were saying that the spin-off starring not Norm or Cliff but the poindexter shrink from Cheers wouldn’t last six episodes, maybe a season tops, and in 1983 they were probably saying that the poindexter shrink who showed up as Diane’s love interest in one episode would only last six…

I think this is a thing too often forgotten — most people don’t religiously follow entertainment blogs like this and so, unless it’s like a major sex crime or something, don’t really follow this kind of news.

I can’t really find it in myself to get too angry or high-and-mighty about a guy basically hoping, in perhaps somewhat clumsy language, that it turns out that a co-worker who they apparently counted as a fairly good friend for the better part of a decade at least isn’t a rapist and sex offender.

I mean, at least Will Smith physically hit someone in front of an audience of millions. This whole thing is pure insider bullshit.