Gabrielle Carteris reportedly lied about her real age of being 29 in order to play a teenager on Beverly Hills, 90210. Now, that she is President of the Screen Actors Guild, she wants to make it so that no casting agent or anyone will know an actor’s birth year.
She wrote an editorial in The Hollywood Reporter explaining, “My role on Beverly Hills, 90210 could not have happened for me today, plain and simple. I would never have been called to audition for the part of 16-year-old Andrea Zuckerman if they had known I was 29. Electronic casting sites did not exist in 1990; today, they are prevalent and influential. And they affect casting decisions even when casting personnel don’t recognize their unconscious bias.”
She added that it will be up to the actor whether or not they want their age removed from websites or not.
I see what she is saying, but I think that casting agents and studios look at more than someone’s age when they are casting a part. There are times that someone will put out a notice asking for a young, clean cut, African-American male to play a role, and they they will get sent headshots of an old, long haired, Asian woman to audition for the part by that person’s agent.
It is like, where do you draw the line? Where they were born? Nationality? Hair color? Sex?
It is who is right for the role and sometimes when you have a 29 year old playing a teenager, they start to look their age by the time they are ready to graduate high school on the show as was the case with Carteris.
Look at Bella Thorne, she is 18 but I think she can play 30. Do you think if she was right for the role, an agent would turn her down for the part if they really knew she was just a teenager.
Plus, Matt Damon played someone half his age in Behind the Candelabra, and no one cared.
What do you think?
Back in May, ABC cancelled Nashville, and a few months later CMT picked it up for another season. As soon as they made that announcement, many people wondered if both Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton would continue on with the show. Today, we got our answer. Entertainment Weekly says that the Friday Night Lights’ star only signed on for 10 episodes and is looking to exit after the last one.
There have been many rumors that she has not been happy with the show for a while and I think it shows. I say good riddance. Not only because you can tell she is phoning it in but also because her character doesn’t add anything to it. She always plays the victim. My girls don’t love me, my record label is failing, Deacon is always causing problems and so on. No matter what story they give her, she plays it the same way.
I know a lot of people think she is the greatest actress, I think she is a one note wonder. Will you miss her if she leaves the show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOoL_MkJMI8
Before Gabriel Macht hired an associate lawyer, who lied about being attorney, on Suits, he got taken in by a man who couldn’t stop lying in Why Would I Lie? He still does some of the same exact facial expressions that he did when was 7 in that 1980 movie. So awwwwdorable.
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It is has been over six years since Charlie Sheen’s antics cost him his job on Two and a Half Men and looks like he is still bitter over his firing.
Even though his former co-star Jon Cryer always took the high road about the whole situation, Sheen still seemed to attack him during that time. Since 2.5 has been off the air for over the year now, you would think that whole moment of time would be forgotten about, and you would be wrong.
Today, Sheen posted a photo of Cryer and him from the sitcom, where the latter is on his knees begging his TV brother for something, and said, “”Please, Please, Please Charlie, do another show with me!!!”
Who needs who more? While Cryer has not landed another show, he appeared on NCIS several times and released a popular memoir. What has Sheen done in the last year?
Would I love to see the two of them together again? Yes! But I just don’t get why Sheen is suddenly attacking the very likable Cryer for no reason at all. I want to know what brought this it about because I doubt Cryer called him begging to do another show together. I can see it happening the other way around. Can’t you?
