Because at the end of the day, what choice did the producers have but to recast and reshoot? If they didn’t the movie would have made zero dollars. All Williams did by volunteering to do it for free was save them money they would have otherwise had no choice but to spend, and since the production companies are the…

Heh, I can remind them of all the things they should be mad at him for.

I don’t know. I feel like “these characters were bland” pretty clearly conveys that he thinks the characters were bland, based on my basic understanding of English words. Just because he doesn’t tell you why he thinks it’s bland doesn’t lessen your understanding that he thinks it’s bland. You don’t have to explain…

Meh, I feel like $1.5 million isn’t very much money to these people.

Sure we all know the system is rigged in favor of men and that it is sexist from top to bottom, but what about that is particular to Wahlberg in this case? He’s dumb as a rock. He just took what they gave him.

Agree. Also agree that he’s totally an asshole otherwise.

Totally agree, and frankly I hadn’t seen any criticism of him previously so I don’t see why everyone is acting like he’s doing this out of some PR move. His reputation wasn’t really damaged from what I could see.

But why should he have opted to do them for free if people were willing to pay him? Do you do your job for free?

Genuine contrition for what though? What did he do wrong in the first place?

I don’t understand how he looked like a sack of shit in the first place. In everything I read about it it seemed the criticism was focused on the agency and the producers. He just let them work it out and he took the money. He probably had no reason to ask what everyone else was making.

Were people really bashing Wahlberg for this, or were they bashing the producers and the agency? I don’t like Wahlberg as a person at all but I can’t see how it’s his fault his costar didn’t get paid more. He might not have even known the details of her deal before the fact. The problem is the agency who didn’t see…

“you state that the characters are ‘bland’ in the hopes that people reading it will be insecure enough to think that their own enjoyment and interest in said characters is a sign of their own blandness or inexpertise, and will be sufficiently cowed by this possibility to not dare disagree”

I’m saying the same thing I’ve been saying the whole time, and as per usual you say something offensive and then when called out on it you come back with all this wide-eyed bullshit about how you just don’t understand.

I didn’t say it wasn’t progress for this one movie. I’ll call it a trend of progress when the next few movies come out with more than 2 minorities apiece. But I’m not sure why I’m still having this discussion with you. This has nothing to do with my original comment. When people say “that’s not saying much” or “that’s…

I know you didn’t say it. It’s just what I glean from your comments. I never said you were responsible for the casting decision, and I already told you what you did. You said you thought it was good to make the villain white. I said that’s fine that you think that and all but I would have preferred it if they gave a…

lol What? Whether it makes good business sense has nothing to do with what I said.

I don’t understand this comment. Is this an “I know you are but what am I” thing? I asked you a question. There was nothing in my comment for you to agree with. Do you understand what a question is? If you would like to tell me what I said you said that you didn’t say, please do, but I’m guessing this is just your…

??? What exactly did I assume you said that you did not say? Or are you just a huge intellectually dishonest liar?

Also, hey, have you considered the fact that no one cares what Chelsea Clinton is doing because no one cares about Chelsea Clinton? She isn’t an important public figure and her father is on death’s door nowhere near the White House. I’m sure there are hundreds of women out there tweeting #timesup when they have not…

You can think that, but with due respect to Descartes, your thinking it doesn’t make it so.