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> "Do I think this person is a cool person?" No movie director would hire an actor on that basis. Well, considering the amount of work Mel Gibson gets these da
by humanrebar 11y ago
> "Do I think this person is a cool person?" No movie director would hire an actor on that basis.
Well, considering the amount of work Mel Gibson gets these days (more or less zero), this does factor in a bit. I also gather that studios hire actors for reasons beyond their acting skill quite often. Consider also how many actresses fall off the face of the earth when they hit a certain age. Where's Mira Sorvino? Halle Berry? Jennifer Garner? Jessica Alba? Did they suddenly forget how to audition?
Considering all the TV shows where the actors are cast by the 8x10 glossies, it might even be the default to undervalue auditions.
- heisnotanalien 11y agoOh give me a break. Those actresses are just taking time off to have children. Nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of successful middle-age actresses.
- humanrebar 11y ago> There are plenty of successful middle-age actresses. Mel Gibson took time off? Or he can't find good projects anymore? Middle age actresses that aren't getting the parts they used to, fairly or not: Elizabeth Shue, Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine Zeta Jones, Nicole Kidman. It's plausible that many just left the business, but they all still act, just in much smaller projects. There's some of that on the actor side as well. Michael Keaton has had a hard time of it for the most part. I just picked actresses because it's more apparent to me non-acting qualities carry more weight when it comes to actresses.