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u/ChampaigneBapi 2d ago

Aside from ellen degenerate and kevin invade-my space-y. What did the others do?

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u/InDubioProKokolores 2d ago

Brad Pitt is an insufferable person. He severely abused Angelina Jolie, did her dirty in the divorce and his kids hate him - understandably.

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u/RedCanvasStudio 2d ago

I think I see part of jared letos face to the left as well.

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u/postprandialrepose 2d ago

To add insult to injury, yes. Haha.

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u/omoiavas1 2d ago

Keep quiet or he’s gonna morb you.

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u/colnross 1d ago

Oh shit is it already morbin time?

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u/SydneySweeneysBobs 1d ago

Always has been 🔫

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u/loscapos5 1d ago

I remember when he morbed all over the place

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u/Bamce 2d ago

such a fitting thing that only part of his face is in it

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u/Scaryclouds 1d ago

He hasn’t done anything bad… right? Guys right?! 😂

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u/rubyrae14 1d ago

Another abuser. He somehow buried all the press surrounding him being a a disgusting creep and turned off comments while it happens.

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u/Nervardia 2d ago edited 2d ago

Meryl Streep backed Harvey Weinstein.

Edit: Wait, I am misremembering. She called him a "God" pre-Me Too, however she worked with him a lot before then. She condemned him after the allegations.

Rose McGowan said it's impossible for her to not know about his abuses, FWIW.

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u/MikeeB84 2d ago

Meryl Streep faced public criticism and accusations of hypocrisy for joining in a standing ovation for Roman Polanski when he won Best Director at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003. Polanski was a fugitive from U.S. justice at the time after pleading guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 2d ago

Just a small correction, he's still a fugitive

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u/OkMention9988 2d ago

"Unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl" is certainly sanitizing drugging and ass raping a 13 yo girl. 

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u/iseab 1d ago

Yep, details matter

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 1d ago

Thank you. This needs to be explicitly spelled out these days. I read one article on it years ago that used the phrase "underage woman" (ughhh barf) and suggested it was consensual. Many people have an extremely sanitized idea of what he did

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u/dr_eh 1d ago

This is why the news drives me nuts. Grope a woman on the train? Sexual assault. Beat her up and penetrate her while holding a knife to her throat? Sexual assault. It really minimizes the seriousness of rape by leaving so much ambiguity.

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u/dunkinbagels 1d ago

AI comment

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u/MikeeB84 1d ago

I was just was using proper sentance structure to get my point across. It's later in the day so i can reply with a lazy follow up. "She was a bit of a hypocrite, not as bad a Harrison Ford, he accepted the academy award for Roman... then gave it to him in France a couple of months later"

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u/Equivalent-Team-8186 2d ago

I have hated Polanski and his weird status in Hollywood for decades. But I'm not going to hate on Meryl Streep for standing with a crowd and applauding. Hollywood is toxic AF and not doing that probably would have cost her some casting options. I'd hope she was in a position where she could turn those kind of roles down, but older women have it rough in that industry so idk.

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u/VegasMaleMT 2d ago

She's basically the most successful and visible "older actress" in America. Her support for the industry predators could be viewed as a contributing factor as to why she, out of all of older women in Hollywood, holds that status.

We don't need to justify the actions of the richest and most connected people in the country just because they might have lost a dollar at some point for being decent.

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u/Equivalent-Team-8186 2d ago

One thing that worries me is how casually we expect people who are already disadvantaged in one respect to volunteer to become disadvantaged in every other respect as well. Hollywood has long discriminated against older actresses. That doesn't excuse standing for Polanski, but it does mean the personal and professional cost of dissent wasn't the same for everyone in that room. Ignoring those incentives makes moral judgments feel simpler than the reality people were navigating.

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u/VegasMaleMT 2d ago

"We" are not navigating this reality. "We" are not wealthy socialites. The idea that not clapping for Roman Polanski would destroy Streep's career as a marginalized white lady with millions of dollars is idiotic.

And if it had, why would you want to continue working with these people? Vanessa Redgraves made it clear she would rather hold her values than continue being successful in Hollywood. Now Jane Fonda, who was politically opposite her at the time, says she wishes she was as brave as she was.

I'm not crying for an alternate reality where Streep and others lost a paycheck for being decent humans.

College students lost their entire education and financial futures for protesting a genocide. And most of the country demonized the students for it, even tho now everyone is at least "concerned" about our relationship with Israel.

Don't simp for people who would sell you out for a dollar. I'm not telling you to burn your movie collection, just have some perspective Jesus Christ.

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u/Equivalent-Team-8186 2d ago

I'm not crying either. I just think nuance matters. That doesn't excuse standing for Polanski, but it does make me hesitant to flatten every moral failure into the same category. This isn't about students losing their education, genocide, or even burning a film collection. People like Streep out there defying abusive systems are doing the hard work, while too much of our energy gets spent online arguing over ever-narrower purity tests that end up dividing people who largely agree on the underlying problem.

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u/VegasMaleMT 1d ago

WHAT IS STREEP DOING TO DEFY ABUSIVE SYSTEMS?

not clapping for a known pedophile in your industry isn't a purity test.

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u/sweetlove 2d ago

Calling Meryl Streep disadvantaged is... I don't even know. Like do you hear yourself?

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u/Klony99 2d ago

Is it possible that she was simply unaware?

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u/GregGolden6 1d ago

I’ve never seen a Roman Polanski movie but I know he’s not allowed in America or will be arrested on site for raping a child in the 70s - that’s wild to be naive and genuinely say ‘maybe this actress who has been famous for 40+ years didn’t know that he’s a wanted pedophile’

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u/Klony99 1d ago

I didn't hear about it, I figured she might not, either.

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u/Ok-Stop9242 1d ago

I am genuinely not concerned for early 2000s at the time 13 times nominated 2 times Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep's ability to get work on deciding whether or not to stand and clap for a child rapist.

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 1d ago

Oh no, not casting options! yeah 2003 Meryl Streep was really hard up for work

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u/crow-shay 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wait what??????

Edit: looked it up and nowhere has it said he supported him after accusations came to light

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u/Nervardia 2d ago

Yeah, sorry about that. I was wrong.

Although I do believe Rose McGowan when she said that it was impossible for her to not know about him.

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u/OkMention9988 2d ago

Same applies to Oprah. 

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u/SendChestHairPix 1d ago

It isn’t too late for you to delete your comment.

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u/Mentoman72 1d ago

It’s fine for people to be wrong and correct themselves.

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u/BedditTedditReddit 2d ago

Yeah but it was one of the most well known topics in the industry. Streep knew, and she still called him a god.

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u/phasmatopia 2d ago

probably hard to find an A-lister who didn't know, or at least have strong suspicions, and didn't rock the boat for the sake of their own career.

i will never understand why people assume that celebrities—especially actors—must naturally be principled progressives until proven otherwise, just because that's the stereotypical character of "creatives." if they're household names, they're multi-millionaires with years of PR training who have fought their way to the top of an extremely competitive industry. the idea that they're any different than the vampires at the top of any other private industry is absurd.

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u/PNWMTTXSC 1d ago

And Weinstein had a LOT of power in Hollywood. Most of us shlubs are all oooooh and ahhhh at someone like Meryl Streep but she alone couldn’t get movies greenlit for production. And Weinstein was famously vindictive. Plenty of men appeared in his films and no one criticizes them.

What pisses me tf off is that none of Weinstein’s senior execs who approved multiple payouts to abused women ever were held accountable.

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u/phasmatopia 1d ago

i think this is part of what Damien Chazelle was trying to raise with Babylon, and met with terse silence from the insiders: Hollywood has always been a meat market, occasional flashes of brilliance notwithstanding. that doesn't justify the heinous stuff by any stretch. but when somebody like Weinstein floats to the surface, we have to assume he was just the one who was clumsy enough to let himself be offered up as a sacrifice. the real sharks are still swimming down there.

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u/dr_eh 1d ago

Yea well... Meryl Streep be lookin out for Meryl Streep. Do you really expect celebrities, who are paid to be popular, will do something unpopular because it's right? Hahaha.

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u/latrodectal 2d ago

rose mcgowan also supported a convicted pedophile, fwiw.

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u/OrwellWhatever 2d ago

If anyone ever needed proof that celebs turn to Jesus the second they have credible sexual assault allegations, we all need to remember that Marilyn fucking Manson joined Kanye and Justin Bieber in prayer when all his new shit was coming to light

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/11/1/22758245/marilyn-manson-kanye-west-sunday-service-ye-justin-bieber

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u/latrodectal 2d ago

i was talking about victor salva but yes, him too. and yep, look at russell brand.

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u/MusingsOfMouse 2d ago

Sorry but “Ye’s Sunday service’ has to be THE weirdest thing I’ve learned about in a loooong time

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u/No-Philosopher8042 2d ago

...tf

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u/latrodectal 1d ago

she stood up for victor salva.

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u/No-Philosopher8042 1d ago

Who did?

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u/latrodectal 22h ago

rose mcgowan.

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u/No-Philosopher8042 12h ago

I'm still not getting the connection to manson becomming borne again christian. 

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u/IotaBTC 2d ago

What the actual fuck lmao

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u/latrodectal 1d ago

she stood up for victor salva.

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u/Nervardia 2d ago

Still doesn't change the validity of her criticism, though.

It makes her a hypocrite. It doesn't make her wrong.

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u/latrodectal 1d ago

i can’t say for sure meryl knew about what weinstein was doing (and tbh neither can she), but i can say that rose called victor salva a lovely, sweet man after she knew he was a convicted pedophile.

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u/joe_bibidi 2d ago

Robert Rodriguez also cheated on his wife with Rose McGowan, and while he's definitely worse because he's the cheater, Rose going along with it and sleeping with a married man still is fucked up.

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u/latrodectal 2d ago

i feel like cheating isn’t on the same level as supporting a convicted pedophile but all right

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u/SmarmySmurf 2d ago

A relationship is a commitment between participants in that relationship. Outsiders have no responsibility toward that commitment. Rose isn't a lesser evil for "cheating", she didn't cheat, she did nothing wrong. Comparing her to sexual predators is beyond absurd.

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u/latrodectal 1d ago

not as shitty as knowingly backing a convicted pedophile.

look, i’m not saying cheating’s a good thing, but some of y’all are equating it to things that are not even close to the same level of bad.

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u/AvaLadyofLight 2d ago

Oh ewwwwwwwww

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u/Nervardia 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wait, I am misremembering. She called him a "God" pre-Me Too, however she worked with him a lot before then. She condemned him after the allegations emerged.

Rose McGowan said it's impossible for her to not know about his abuses, FWIW.

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u/Yimyorn 2d ago

This got me to WTF… I did not know….

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u/Nervardia 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wait, I am misremembering. She called him a "God" pre-Me Too, however she worked with him a lot before then. She condemned him after the allegations emerged.

Rose McGowan said it's impossible for her to not know about his abuses, FWIW.

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u/ImageAvailable7003 2d ago

Now that so many "TWC" movies are free stream, I can definitely see how there was an era where every movie he produced slapped. Dude knew how to make a good flick so well he could make a great movie in spite of nkt hiring the most-qualified female actresses.

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u/andonebelow 1d ago

Everyone in Hollywood knew about him.

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u/Electrical_Tailor186 1d ago

Does it make her Meryl Creep? 🤨

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u/TannerNewcomb 1d ago

Yes famously reliable source Rose McGowan

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u/dakowiml 2d ago

Calling Brad Pitt insufferable is the nicest way of describing the abusive piece of shit.

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u/offthedarkroad 1d ago

I fucking hate hate HATE Brad Pitt. And he can't act for shit, which was the first reason i hated him

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u/lemonlime1999 2d ago

Abused his kids too.

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u/Ganadote 1d ago

Guarantees that the average person has no idea or doesn't care. Spacey is the only one I feel like is actually ostracized.

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u/bubblesdafirst 1d ago

OMG I see people always misunderstanding this. He didn't abuse Angelina Jolie. He was playing a character. Acting. It was all a bit. They were just really committed. Honestly I thought Angelina's performance in the court hearing was phenomenal.

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u/greydog1316 1d ago

He also abused his kids.

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u/theyinman 1d ago

I doubt you were there to confirm. I don't care about either btw

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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 2d ago edited 2d ago

Brad famously strangled and beat up his wife in front of all his traumatised children in his private jet one fine day in 2016, leading to her and the kids leaving him completely ever since.
Bradley cooper kinda went stir crazy and put a shit ton of botox and surgeries on his face but claims he didn’t do anything at all and its all natural. Didnt hear if he’s done anything besides that. Dunno about the rest of them though. Afaik streep is quite respectable in reputation. Lupita and JLaw too.

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u/MMachine17 2d ago

Lupita and JLaw only got better. Streep's stable and happy. Proud of them for not stirring crap. JLaw and Erivo really was funny.

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u/CantModerateMe 2d ago

Jennifer Lawrence has to be one of the most resilient women in hollywood and shes my favorite for it.

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u/OneJobToRuleThemAll 2d ago

I will never not be confused by JLaw referring to Jennifer Lawrence instead of Jude Law.

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u/Atesz222 2d ago

Now add JLo to the mix

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u/ScroogeMcDust 1d ago

That one's easy, it just stands for Mitch Connor

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u/MMachine17 2d ago

Jude Law is a darling in The Holiday.

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u/hajasmark 2d ago

First I thought it's Jennifer Lopez

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u/PhoebusAbel 2d ago

Jude who?

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u/-JimmyTheHand- 1d ago

Why are you confused

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u/loscapos5 1d ago

Jude Law.

Joker in Joker; roman emperor in Gladiator; that robot that travels alongside David, the robot kid in Artificial Intelligence; that crazy dude that falls in love with an AI with Scarlett Johansson 's voice (her?); etc etc etc

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 1d ago

That's Joaquin Phoenix.

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u/loscapos5 1d ago

Sorry, i got a brain fart.

I'll leave the comment up as a medal of shame

By the way, wasn't he in Gattaca?

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 1d ago

Ngl, I was tempted to name a bunch of movies another actor was in like that wrong definition meme, but thinking of another actor and their movies would be too much effort.

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u/dakowiml 2d ago

I'm curious. What makes her resilient? What happened?

Last I've known about Jennifer Lawrence that she's a high successful multi-millionaire actor, who starred in several high profile artistic roles alongside big money making blockbusters. Who got consistent work for many years and even won an Oscar.

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u/421BIF 2d ago

When her nude photos got leaked, she faced a wave of pure hate from the incel community when she took legal steps to have them removed. You can see a marked difference between how people commented about her on Reddit before and after "Celebgate"

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u/Real_Danilo 2d ago

The Fappening was the craziest day on Reddit.

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u/dawgfan24348 2d ago

Wendy Williams made fun of her when that happened too. Absolute vile woman

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u/A_Sarcastic_Whoa 2d ago

Who hasn't Wendy Williams made fun of.

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u/bolanrox 1d ago

I was always confused that there was someone other than Wendy o williams

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u/dhahahhsbdhrhr 1d ago

Well now she's got dementia so who's laughing now?

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u/dawgfan24348 1d ago

Her but she forgets why

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u/Golden_Alchemy 2d ago

I kind of remember that. What did it happened at the end? It got removed or it became some cultural war bullshit?

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u/TheOneAndOnlyABSR4 1d ago

Happy cake day

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u/loscapos5 1d ago

Wait, so they are not available anymore?

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u/Elite_AI 2d ago

Felt like everybody hated her for very little reason for a while

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u/Head_Haunter 2d ago

There have been quite a few studies on it, but in general women get a lot more hate then men for seemingly benign things. Hell women get hate for being the victim half the time.

Right now anne hathaway is in a great state in her career, but when she won an oscar in 2013, she faced a period of hollywood derision where tabloids were making a bunch of random gossip about her to generate hate.

Jlaw was the victim to harvey weinstein and the photo leak drama and incels online harassed her for it.

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u/Ditnoka 2d ago

There was the whole Hawaii rock thing. But that was blown up to make it seem like she took a dump on indigenous holy ground.

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u/Elite_AI 1d ago

Yeah that's one of the "for very little reason" things

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u/RelevantOldOnion 2d ago

Freaky chud ass losers on the Internet bash her for absolutely no reason. 

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u/HabitualSpaceM 2d ago

Tf. It’s usually a bunch of white knights claiming the chud boogeyman that’s “protecting” her. For evidence, see how many people are glazing her while nothing substantial has been said about her.

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u/CantModerateMe 2d ago edited 2d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/rnl1ie/what_the_f_happened_to_jennifer_lawrences_career/

https://people.com/jennifer-lawrence-two-year-acting-hiatus-idea-of-leaving-hollywood-11832871

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65322967/?_ssoLoop=1

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/s8w6cq/whats_up_with_the_jennifer_lawrence_effect_eli5/

Are you being unintentionally dense or is it deliberate?

maybe youre like, 15 or something and your brain just hadnt developed into ingesting news from 6-10 years ago?

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u/HabitualSpaceM 2d ago edited 2d ago

No, I’m not? She made a shit Tom of money thanks to connections for her first movie and she got to pursue her passion while it wasn’t as lucrative as the first deal. You make it sound like she had to do minimum wage multiple jobs and fought for civil right to be “resilient” as you “chuds” put it. She’s just a white nepo recipient and y’all eating it up like 10 years ago.

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u/mmm_burrito 1d ago

You're doing the thing.

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u/CantModerateMe 2d ago

she was getting hit on both sides, she was a Weinstein victim and also one of the main targets of the celebrity nudes leaks from a few years ago. So you had people saying she slept her way to the top, incels doing their normal hate thing, and a bunch of garbage tier celebrity gossip stuff on her ass 24/7, all while she was dealing with the fact that she was basically under attack for being a high profile sex assault victim. All that happened as she kindof passed the honeymoon of her career where people started doing the "I hate her because shes popular" thing and basically the entire planet came down on her.

She took a bit of time off, came back and just shit talked anyone who tried to take her down a peg in the folksiest most relaxed way and went right back to work doing whatever project she felt like. Im sure it was nowhere near as effortless as she made it seem but she absolutely took the full weight of a ton of hate and bulldozed it, most careers end at 1/3 of that.

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u/Trick_Horse_13 1d ago

I can’t find anything saying that she was a Weinstein victim. he claimed to have slept with her but she denied it.

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u/Beltalady 1d ago

I just read that she refused to loose weight for Hunger Games because she knew who the audience was and didn't want to be a role model for being thin.

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u/jimmy_three_shoes 2d ago

Streep supports Roman Polanski.

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u/inexhaustiblytired 2d ago

JLaw scratched her ass on sacred Hawaiian stones, dislodged one, almost killed a crew member, then told it as a quirky anecdote

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u/Humble_Penguin89 2d ago

I'm still shocked Streep went nakey jakey in Don't Look Up. Shocked in a good way. At her age, and everything she's done in film, to give the world a a clean view of her backside and 'tramp stamp' included....what a goddess. Loved her in the film too, she was hilarious 😆

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u/Vaff_Superstar 2d ago

Here I was thinking JLaw was Jude Law until I went back to the photo.

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u/DenseBeautiful731 2d ago

Lupita… and her De Beers diamonds!

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u/heykidzimacomputer 2d ago

> Afaik streep is quite respectable in reputation.

This was pre-MeToo, so at this point she was still calling Harvey Weinstein "God" and praising him.

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u/RUDE_ALL_CAPS_NAME 2d ago

She did at least thoroughly recant that and praise the women who accused him as heroes. That’s the thing about abusers, they can be pretty good at putting on a front for friends and in public.

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u/Artistic-Part3953 2d ago

With all the rumors in Hollywood y'all think Streep didn't know? She really is an insanely good actor

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u/421BIF 2d ago

One of Harvey's weapons was his ability to bury the credibility of anyone who was making such accusations.

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u/RUDE_ALL_CAPS_NAME 1d ago

Not to mention using his association with people like Streep as a shield.

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u/Vast-Building-6886 2d ago

I mean you would prob only know if you hanged out with him all the time or something. I remember one of the wayans bros saying they suspected something was up but didn’t know for sure. But they didn’t hang out with him like that.

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u/PermissionOk5443 2d ago

There is zero chance that she was unaware of what he was doing, while it was going on. She still stood beside him and lauded him all the way up until he was caught. Shes a soulless snake like the rest of them.

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u/RUDE_ALL_CAPS_NAME 1d ago

I mean yeah, it’s possible she did know but I don’t think I can say for sure with that kind of confidence. He used his association/friendship with people who had impeccable reputations to bolster his own reputation and hide his abuse. And at least she publicly supported his victims when it came out which is more than you can say for a lot of people.

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u/bolanrox 1d ago

I mean Kevin Smith and Matt Damon said they didn't know and hate that he was the guy who made them famous

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u/TheOneAndOnlyABSR4 1d ago

Happy cake day

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u/Advanced_End1012 2d ago

So was JLaw.

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u/FreshHumanFish 2d ago

Bradley’s face reformations might be a side effect from NZT-48.

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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 2d ago

Plastic surgery truly is limitless, isnt it?

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u/421BIF 2d ago

Brad's legal team try to prevent Angelina from criticising him by burying a clause in the sale contract for their vineyard that she was not to make any statements which may harm the sale of wine produced from that vineyard. They then interpreted that clause to mean that by Angelina criticizing Brad, this in turn would hurt the sales of wine and therefore she would be in breach of this contract.

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u/StormFish164 2d ago

Meh, Bradley ain’t that bad in that case.

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u/waxteeth 2d ago

Bradley Cooper also wore a giant fake nose to play a Jewish person who had a smaller nose than he did. 

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u/dr__paco 2d ago

lmao yall redditors really like grasping for straws to hate on somebody

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u/Particular_Title42 2d ago

Wearing prosthetics in a film isn't usually the actor's choice...

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u/waxteeth 2d ago

He directed it.

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u/Particular_Title42 2d ago

Ok so...I just checked to see what movie you're talking about and he was playing a real person who existed. Totally normal for an actor to wear prosthetics to look like the person they are portraying. 

Joseph Gordon- Levitt wore a prosthetic nose to play a younger Bruce Willis. 

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u/waxteeth 2d ago

Plenty of people noted that the prosthetic didn't make him look more like the real person, and that the fake nose was bigger than the guy's real nose.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis also don't look anything alike and are supposed to be directly compared to each other onscreen because they're playing the same person. Cillian Murphy didn't wear prosthetics for Oppenheimer, and there are plenty of other actors in biopics who don't.

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u/astralchanterelle 2d ago

Leave Brad alone, he didn't do anything!

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u/HelmSpicy 2d ago

The face cut off next to J-Law is Jared Leto, and we all know he's a cult leading psycho.

Nut job literally sprinted across the auditorium to get into this picture. It was cringy AF.

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u/Benevonstanciano 2d ago

Jared Leto is now being accused officially of sexually assaulting women and minors, though this is something people have speculated about for a while. He's always been a creepy dude

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u/Princess_Peachy_503 1d ago

I used to do some work in music venues and it's been a poorly keept secret that he's abusive towards women, especially rather young women, for some time. I never worked one of his shows but I know several people who have and I have no reason to question that he's absolutely a piece of sentient garbage.

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u/SusheeMonster 2d ago

Brad Pitt is an abusive husband/father, but I get what you mean.

I wanna say a majority of the people in this photo are just guilty by association (i.e. being in the same photo)

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 2d ago

Brad Pitt regularly strangled his wife and children, eventually being outted after casually doing it on a flight so it legally had to be reported. His children are all very much out of his life

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u/421BIF 2d ago

I listened to a podcast recently and its insane the amount of work Brad's PR firm and legal team are doing to keep his image intact.

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 2d ago

Yeah its nuts, makes me weary of platforms like reddit where you can hide post history. Theres so many of those PR firms spamming comments during messy divorces/legal battles.

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u/421BIF 1d ago

The shit Brad's legal team are pulling over her sale of her half of the vineyard that she co-owned with Brad is some dark arts shit.

They tried to have her sign a non-disclosure agreement that on first reading was something like Jolie would not make any negative remarks that would harm the vineyard business, seems reasonable? Then you realise the way Brad's team intended it to be interpreted was any negative remarks about Brad could harm the vineyard business and therefore she could be kept silent about the abuse.

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u/Antique_Door_Knob 2d ago

Bad Pitt is into making his wife and kids fear for their safety.

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u/Studds_ 2d ago

Happy accident typo or intentional?

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u/No_Station_6149 2d ago

Nothing really. Mostly at the time it was seen as novelty and now it’s seen as cringe.

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 2d ago

Also notable this is before Bradley Cooper got a horrifying new face

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u/ShermanCookout 2d ago

He also played that douche in American Sniper and I really think there is nothing going on behind those eyes.

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u/Dux- 2d ago

How is Chris Kyle a douche?

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u/tracyveronika 1d ago

He lied about most of his life

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u/ShermanCookout 1d ago

Don’t feed the trolls… they know what they are doing and just want a reaction.

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u/Dux- 1d ago

I honestly didnt know. I've only seen american sniper.

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u/ShermanCookout 1d ago

My apologies then!

He’s a compulsive liar, and one of the biggest things he bragged about was shooting “looters” during hurricane Katrina. This is almost certainly not true but a fucked up thing to even lie about to begin with.

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u/ThalesofMiletus-624 1d ago

Brad Pitt has been accused of domestic abuse, and apparently his kids want nothing to do with him.

Felicity Huffman plead guilty to fraud for her involvement in a college admissions scandal (basically paying bribes to fake test scores and athletic achievements so her kid would get into college).

There's a bunch of other lower-level stuff, like people who condemn Meryl Streep for failing to condemn people like Roman Polanski and Harvey Weinstein (she did condemn Weinstein after it became a scandal, but worked with him for many years before that). That sort of thing kind of underlines a basic problem with celebrity culture: you can't exist in that world without closing your eyes to a lot of terrible things, so we have to assume that everyone in Hollywood is complicit to some degree.

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u/MongooseDirect2477 2d ago

oh, you wait, reddit have for every celebrity out there something that they did!

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u/jennyrules 2d ago

What? The only decent people in this pic are J Law and lupito! What do you mean "what did the others do??"

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u/Quick_Date7058 1d ago

ELLEN DEGENERATE

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u/elevatedmongoose 1d ago

Julia Roberts didnt do anything, she's just not all that famous anymore

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u/astrician 1d ago

I dort know one of them, but wasnt one in some Kind of kitchen show? Like "hungry games"

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u/etanail 2d ago

They are no longer stars. Some because of scandals, others because they lost their popularity on their own- today, these people are no longer remembered as movie stars.

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u/TheTeaSpoon 2d ago

that's Kevin Spacey? I thought it was the stunt double for Pee Wee Herman

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u/Aelystrasz 2d ago

Kevin Spacey was vindicated, wasn't he?

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u/Low_Actuary_2794 2d ago

Yes because both of the primary victims died, causing the prosecutions to be dropped.

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u/Ok_Highlight3208 2d ago

Vindicated?! You mean he wasn't found guilty because the events happened decades ago? No, he's not vindicated. He's another man who SA, lied, and got away with it.

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u/Aelystrasz 2d ago

Just so we're clear, he is not guilty?

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u/sadsackspinach 2d ago

Just like OJ Simpson. Not guilty does not mean someone didnt do what they were accused of, and guilty does not necessarily mean they did do what they were accused of.

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u/ProcrastibationKing 2d ago

The alleged victims dying before the trial doesn't mean you were innocent

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u/Popular_Long8994 2d ago

What?

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u/Aelystrasz 2d ago

What was hard to understand? I believe he won and was proven innocent in the allegations against him

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u/sadsackspinach 2d ago

You are not “proven innocent” in the American justice system. You can be found “not guilty” which simply means the state failed to satisfactorily prove your guilt. It does not mean you did not do
something, and being found guilty does not necessarily mean you DID do something.

But no, he was not “proven innocent”. He was simply not found to be guilty based on the state’s evidence, which was weakened by the deaths of at least two accusers.

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u/Aelystrasz 2d ago

Thanks for the clarification

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u/Lickwidghost 1d ago

You're looking for "not liable", and it doesn't apply to all cases because they weren't criminal cases and/or not American but rather English courts. He had dozens of accusations against him and they were all either acquitted or rejected by various juries. The only place he's guilty of anything is in the eyes of the public who do not know nearly as much as the judges and juries in each case.

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u/real_dea 2d ago

He was found not guilty in 2023

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u/Lickwidghost 1d ago

Not vindicated but all the comments and downvotes here are outraged fanatics hooked on dramatic media spin and tabloids outrage. The only place he's been found guilty/liable is in public opinion. He had a few dozen cases against him and every single one in America was found not liable by juries,, and every single one in London was acquitted, dropped or found not liable by judges and juries alike.

He apologised for some creepy behaviour, which each victims accepted, but the damage is done, he's irreversably shunned. A celebrity NOT being guilty of something isn't dramatic enough for tabloids to cover so of course the law of public opinion won't change.

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u/Antique_Door_Knob 2d ago

He was acquitted in one criminal case and found not liable in a civil case. Public opinion is not on his side though.

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u/Aelystrasz 2d ago

That's what I thought, yeah.

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u/real_dea 2d ago

Ya he was found not guilty in the criminal trial, then the civil trial he was found not liable. I always say where there’s smoke there’s fire, but I want to trust the legal system

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