That’s because actual Method requires the kind of insight and humility these fuckheads couldn’t muster on the Cross.

No one hears stories about method actors who are not assholes because there’s no reason to talk about them.

Because people need to be warned when someone is raping others. As cathartic as it is to tell your story, if someone is abusing people, or raping people, it should be reported then, even if it’s done anonymously.

The irony being, the “abusive asshole boss” type in the Hollywood indie scene was parodied in SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, played by.... Kevin Spacey.
Can’t make this shit up.

While I have no doubt you went through this, and I’m sorry for that, I want to add that I’m right now going through this in a different industry, and it’s the young women who are doing the abuse - because they know the predatory, abusive men will back them. In fact, every woman I know in the workplace above 50, across…

Played by the late (and great) Canadian actor, Maury Chaykin. (Just had to get the Canadian mention in there.)

Indeed. And for some women, the more they’ve given up to play the game like a man, the angrier they are at young women who think they can have a decent life along with work.

My mother was verbally abusive to her secretaries and I remember as a kid one of them crying in the kitchen. But I was told that she was allowed to be, because of her skill and status, and everyone else had to “toughen up.” It’s fucked. I grew up with this kind of shit but still can’t handle it

I’ve joked for a long time that Hollywood is a town full of people whose mothers didn’t love them, not the opposite — abuse begets abuse, coddling begets laziness (irritating as a quality, but mostly harmless).

I keep thinking back to all the moments where, in my less than fashionable field of employment, I have lived or witnessed other people (mostly women) go through similar scenarios as those in the article.

Ugh. Me too. My first job in Hollywood after college was working under the most vile, abusive woman I’ve ever met. I stayed for 3 years because I was too afraid to quit (student loans, etc.) and I didn’t realize that that kind of behavior wasn’t normal.

I don’t know a single former assistant who doesn’t have stories like this. I worked for an extremely powerful female executive who tortured her three female assistants (I was one of them...) mercilessly. I wasn’t strong enough to handle it for more than ten months when a female producer who knew of the abuse rescued…

As is this character on Entourage:

Why do you say that? I don’t see how time negates lived experience. The reasons why people don’t come forward immediately are legion, and have been well documented.

This type of abuse is de rigueur in Hollywood. I was an executive assistant to a female manager that was on her way up over ten years ago and she was a horrible verbal abuser. She had been abused by her family and the people that she worked for before she became someone and truly saw the abuse that she doled out as…

As a woman in media, I wonder if all this firing accomplishes much at all..there’s something phony/over the top compensatory about the attention and action being generated from a situation that has gone on for many years. Make that centuries.

Generic Life advice:

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I’ve heard rumors for years of him being banned from certain spas in LA for assaulting masseuses. I have no proof, but most of what I’ve heard comes from friends who’ve worked in those spas.

Because that’s how the media is. It only is interested in stories about people who will sue them, AFTER they get revealed by someone else. And sometimes, not even then.