If you do look up Q&A's? Look before 2014, the early stuff - is better. In answer to your question: Occasionally. Although if I do I'll make sure to find the early stuff.
Or Jon Faverau - Jon wrote for Obama, and is a top actor and director, and started the franchise with Iron Man. (I just finished Obama's Promised Land and he mentions him.) I remember Jon from... 2008? That whole election was like a fandom. :)
They had real issues with the actress, which unfortunately hurt her later. That doesn't excuse how Whedon handled it. But, CC wasn't completely blameless either. I was sort of thinking more generally (although that obviously did not come across) - how phrases might have an aspect of truth and yet become a shorthand for something else. So an actress who is 'difficult to work with' can genuinely be difficult, but it's more of a way to describe someone who is unofficially blacklisted. Like how 'economic anxiety' is used for Trump voters, or 'Wants to spend more time with his family' for a politician caught having an affair who decides to resign. Whatever their literal meaning, phrases like that come with connotations and can't be taken at face value. (We've yet to finish Bojack, but one of the story lines is about this very thing. The actress in question IS 'difficult to work with, but it's much more complex than that.) Like you say, it's never black or white.
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Date: 2021-03-07 04:26 pm (UTC)In answer to your question: Occasionally. Although if I do I'll make sure to find the early stuff.
Or Jon Faverau - Jon wrote for Obama, and is a top actor and director, and started the franchise with Iron Man. (I just finished Obama's Promised Land and he mentions him.)
I remember Jon from... 2008? That whole election was like a fandom. :)
They had real issues with the actress, which unfortunately hurt her later. That doesn't excuse how Whedon handled it. But, CC wasn't completely blameless either.
I was sort of thinking more generally (although that obviously did not come across) - how phrases might have an aspect of truth and yet become a shorthand for something else. So an actress who is 'difficult to work with' can genuinely be difficult, but it's more of a way to describe someone who is unofficially blacklisted. Like how 'economic anxiety' is used for Trump voters, or 'Wants to spend more time with his family' for a politician caught having an affair who decides to resign. Whatever their literal meaning, phrases like that come with connotations and can't be taken at face value. (We've yet to finish Bojack, but one of the story lines is about this very thing. The actress in question IS 'difficult to work with, but it's much more complex than that.) Like you say, it's never black or white.