I used to be a casting assistant, while at the same time going on auditions for these kinds of parts. (We don’t all book enough to avoid a day job.) I aged out of the Potential Mermaid category years ago, but this totally checks out. One minor correction: if the door-slamming fuckwit was fired by the production…

Let me get this straight. They had female actors dance in bikinis (to the song Milkshake no less) for a role that included neither dancing nor bikinis.......

Just like a beauty pageant swimsuit competition is supposed to show the contestant’s level of “fitness.” So. Much. Sexist. Bullshit.

From the Times:

That’s one of the stupidest excuses I’ve seen in a while. To show their confidence? Um, how about have them read the lines written? What the hell!

The MOST confident move was to stand there with RBF instead of kowtowing to that director’s whims.

Riiiight!? This is the moment when you say, “this was a massive mistake and we have learned our lesson.” This company is run by absolute idiots.

Maybe a super contagious cold goes around and society becomes a chaotic dystopia because all the men think they’re dying.

“[E]ach actor was asked to dance at the beginning of their audition as this was a way to show one’s level of confidence.”

basically, you just want to do whatever they tell you so you can try to be as good as they are.

Yep, and ICE is also telling on themselves. To them, a street rapper’s authenticity means they must, from birth, be constantly living their lyrics in an American hood near you. Most of the time, this shit is an exaggerated biography, making legend out of real lived trauma. The reason why rap, especially gangster rap, r…

Another shitty human that has attained a position of power arguably based on privilege. The other horrible part to stories like this is that this administration has been placing more judges on the bench with the same principles as them. So there is a strong chance that there are more dark days ahead.

Gibbens responded, “And so she’s uncomfortable for something she voluntarily went to, voluntarily took her top off of, and was paid for?”

Someone else who doesn’t really NEED to be on the bench, I reckon.

It’s amazing to me that adults are often treated with less agency than kids.

For the longest time, a good two decades after my teacher molester was convicted of raping me daily for two years, I had feelings of fault so ingrained in my psyche, that the self-abuse track I was on nearly ended my life.

You’re right of course. This shit just infuriates me. These assholes and their union do nothing but fail upwards, meanwhile you have teachers buying their own school suppliers and going to jail for trying to help their students their union is too toothless to do anything about it.

Well my preference would be firing his ass, as noted “police union” would probably prevent it. However burying his sorry ass in property, he wouldn’t be on the street where he could “fear for his life” and shoot an unarmed POC, so which of the 2 shitty options you think is better?

Bury his ass in the property room or some other menial task if they can’t get rid of him (police union)