r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 9h ago
SOCIETY In 2018, a customer secretly photographed Geoffrey Owens best known for playing Elvin on the Cosby Show working at a Trader Joe's in Clifton, New Jersey, and the images were published online in an attempt to "job-shame" him. Instead, he was able to get more work as an actor because of it.
He went on to explain that most actors and indeed most entertainers are gig workers. For every a-lister many other actors work gig to gig and having steady work and a steady income that pays well is really hard because the field is so unpredictable. And many actors including many well know actors and artists have to have a secondary source of regular income between gigs and for most working entertainers it means getting a regular job and taking whatever roles you can get.
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u/Rage_Blackout 8h ago
Also, how you gonna shame a man for having a job? If you're earning your own money legally and not causing trouble for the world, then it's no damn business of mine where you work.
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u/ElectronicDrop 8h ago edited 5h ago
That is on Cosby. He could have signed away his financial rights to the show for a lump sum like Roseanne did so the could have continued to air/stream and everyone else could have continued to earn royalties.
Also fuck the people that tried to shame Geoffrey. Man stepped up and found a job.
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u/suspicious_bag_1000 8h ago
I don’t think it was a financial rights issue. It was broadcasters stopped airing reruns of the show so he lost royalties associated with that
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u/FromFluffToBuff 6h ago
I think people truly underestimate just how aggressively fast The Cosby Show was pretty much yanked from the airwaves on all the channels that aired it. For anyone who had their royalties from that show, their residual payments all but evaporated.
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u/Ohnoanywayz 7h ago
I remember (I’m an old) when the show aired-I didn’t watch it too often myself but I think a lot of people don’t realize how immensely popular it was. So the whole thing was extra shocking and weird.
I felt bad for the other actors that had to deal when all that went down. :(
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u/braaaaaains 6h ago
What’s interesting is how he publicly criticized her for some R rated movie she made, doing a racy photoshoot for Rolling stone He even got mad when she got married and then pregnant. They wouldn’t write the pregnancy into the Cosby Show spin off she was in and that basically forced her off the show.
It was just always in the news that that he had some beef with her during that period and that she was ruining the wholesome image of the show. Anyway, I guess we can all see that he projecting now.
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u/sacredblasphemies 5h ago
I know. That was Cosby's reputation.
He shamed Eddie Murphy for using swear words in his act and Eddie turned it into a classic bit. Well before the general public was aware of Cosby's OTHER reputation. Of course, his bit is even funnier now that we know Bill was drugging and raping women the entire time.
Because it's SO shitty and hypocritical for someone doing that to act as some sort of moral authority.
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u/HonoluluSolo 5h ago
Projecting and... jealous? That she wasn't hiding her sexuality and willingly attracting attention from others beside himself? One wonders...
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u/tossNwashking 8h ago
I'm starting to think Cosby isn't a great guy!
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u/Ural-Guy 8h ago
Worse thing is, he's a hypocrite.
RIP Norm
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u/DamonLazer 6h ago
I think the worst part was the raping.
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u/life2eli 6h ago
Then you know drugging women, then actually getting the drugs, then way down here, the hypocrisy!!
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u/bolanrox 6h ago
When he came out and said Paul Rubens did nothing wrong, he wasn't kidding on multiple levels.
He legitimately did nothing wrong, but compared to Bill, he was an absolute saint.
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u/deprecateddeveloper 5h ago
But also, happy birthday Norm! Today is his bday.
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u/TeeEYEdoubleDUHer 4h ago
That's cool, I didn't know that. Also, happy cake day to you!
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u/deprecateddeveloper 3h ago
Haha thanks I had no clue.
Me pointing out Norm's bday just to have my own reddit bday pointed out to me haha. WHO'S NEXT?!
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u/Interesting-Tax6562 8h ago
Thanks norm
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u/topdangle 8h ago
I'm not watching a single second of the cosby show until Norm is dead and buried!
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u/Any-Organization9101 8h ago
I don’t think people would want to watch the show any more no matter who owned the rights. Hard to look at Bill Cosby in that role and laugh.
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u/MongolianDonutKhan 8h ago
That's the worst of it. With Roseanne and Home Improvement, Barr and Allen may be dickweeds, but their characters are meant to be abrasive to a degree, so they are still watchable shows. Cosby sold himself and Dr. Huxtable as 1:1 good upstanding moral characters.
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u/Initial-Way-4968 8h ago
Exactly, that’s what made the whole thing so disturbing. People expected Dr. Huxtable to be someone they could look up to, which makes the betrayal of that image hit so much harder.
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u/Altforwrestling 7h ago
When I was a kid, Bill Cosby inspired me to want to be an educator. The fact that he did comedy records and The Electric Company, made me take certain art and English courses in high school. But by the time I was in college, his image was tarnished.
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u/cothomps 6h ago
Bill Cosby was probably the biggest “media” star for the childhoods of people in their 50s now.
All the kids shows, “Picture Pages” at the public library, a bunch of movies, the Cosby Show, etc. etc.
It’s still hard to mentally connect _that_ Bill Cosby with the man who was drugging his rape victims.
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u/DreadfulDuder 4h ago
Even for those of us in our early 40s, he was often a massive part of our childhoods. The Fat Albert cartoon originally aired in the 70s, but its reruns were still playing in the 90s.
And I remember Cosby show reruns were sometimes the only watchable sitcom in their time slot - especially if you were stuck with rabbit ear antennas or very basic cable TV in the 90s.
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u/DocJimmie 6h ago
Bill Cosby: Himself was stand-up you could watch at anytime and laugh. Especially getting into fatherhood.
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u/braaaaaains 6h ago
I never really liked him. My first exposure to him was through the cartoon Fat Albert. I was literally four and five years old and didn’t know shit about the world or race or anything and I would watch feeling absolutely horrified at how black people were portrayed. I started to get self conscious and wonder if that’s how the world saw me.
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u/bolanrox 6h ago
We wore out the VHS copies we made of his HBO stand-up special. The first album I ever got was Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow, right? My father bought it for me in, I don't know, 1983.
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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise 6h ago edited 3h ago
I don’t think people would want to watch the show any more no matter who owned the rights.
That is probably why TV One "only" airs it in syndication 36 hours per week ha /s
But seriously, they legit have it on weekends from 3pm-11pm, and Weekdays from 7am-9am and then again at 6pm-8pm... in 2026 https://tvone.tv/schedule/
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u/scalyblue 6h ago
I’ll bet the licensing fees were dirt cheap
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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise 6h ago edited 3h ago
Ha true, but imagine being the guy who works in advertising who has to sell ad time to fill 36 hours worth of Cosby Show ad timeslots
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u/Busy-Juggernaut277 7h ago
Tbh I feel like except for Malcolm Jamal Warner(RIP), Raven Symone, and Phylicia Rashad(who also is a professor) the rest of the cast basically disappeared and havent had acting gigs since.
No shame in working another job if your acting gigs dried up, they’re able to make money to put food on the table I hope.
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u/Ok_Outcome_6213 6h ago
Phylicia is also very vocal in her support of Bill Cosby and his innocence.
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u/Busy-Juggernaut277 6h ago
do not get me started…… obligatory fuck Phylicia Rashad
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u/scrumple26 7h ago
I get where you’re coming from, but even if he signed away his rights, that doesn’t mean anyone is going to want to watch a show with Cosby as the main character or any network/streaming is going to want to air it.
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u/JustYourNeighbor 6h ago
I don't know but I don't think that would have helped. Stations are reluctant to air Cosby because of the scandal.
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u/attgig 7h ago
Pretty damning when you are pretty much saying Rosanne is a better person than bill
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u/Expensive_Editor_244 8h ago
Insert gif of Jay and Silent Bob giving internet trolls a beat down here
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u/Vast-Percentage-7312 6h ago edited 6h ago
this is why i don't agree with trying to cancel entire movies/tv shows just because of one bad actor. television shows and films are made on the backs of hundreds of hardworking people.
imagine you stop making money for the work you've done because your boss turned out to be a terrible, terrible person. we should be able to deal with bad actors without punishing anyone who was unknowingly in their vicinity.
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u/ScriptioAfricanus 5h ago
Thank you for saying this. I work in film/tv and 99 percent of the people in my industry are kind, normal, average people who work hard for surprisingly little money.
Run the bad apples out of town, absolutely! There’s no shortage of Hollywood psychos who need to be gone.
But let the rest of us work and do what we love - attempting to make things that give people enjoyment and escape.
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u/AdSpecialist6598 8h ago
Earning a steady income is not easy especially in something like showbiz when you have no idea when/if you'll have a job.
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u/JohnHazardWandering 8h ago
I bet TJ's provides health insurance and a flexible schedule, so it's extra good for him .
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u/EDG33 7h ago
Trader Joe's has a reputation as being a good place to work. I'm looking at retiring in about 5 years. Probably will take some time over at TJ's to keep busy
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u/SinoSoul 7h ago
If they’ll hire you. Hiring is very competitive at some TJs due do this great reputation.
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u/Do_Not_Go_In_There 6h ago edited 5h ago
I remember years ago there was an interview with someone from Friends (I think Matt LeBlanc), and he was asked about why his salaries for certain actors were so large, and he said something like (I'm paraphrasing) "look, there's no way we'll ever be in anything as successful as this again. There's no guarantee we'll still be able to find consistent work. And the studio is going to make money off our work regardless, so we're going to take advantage of our popularity while we still have it."
I do still think they made an obscene amount of money, but he did have a point.
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u/Icy-Entertainer-1422 5h ago
he must have been talking about the successful Friends spin off Joey
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u/Do_Not_Go_In_There 5h ago
Nah, he was talking about how the cast of Friends banded together to negotiate higher salaries. They went from $25,000 an episode at the start to $750,000 in the later seasons, then $1 million in the last two seasons.
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u/lateformyfuneral 8h ago
People these days think anyone who has been on TV is a multimillionaire
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u/parkaman 7h ago
Same with musicians. The reason you can still see that band who had that really influential album n the 80s or 90s is because they're skint. I've done live sound for nearly 4 decades and I know a lot of bands that would stop tomorrow if they could. I remember bringing my son to meet his favourite band after one of their gigs. he was really excited heading to the dressing room only to quickly realise it was just old men moaning about work, money and their bad backs, the very same as when Dad had his mates around at home.
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u/TadGhostal1 4h ago
I recently looked up Trent Reznor and happened to see his estimated net worth, 80 million. I find that insane. It's obviously an unfathomable amount for me. But for the 60 year old Nine Inch Nails guy and blockbuster film composer? As a big sports fan, comparing that to player contracts... it sounds unbelievably low for who he is
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u/AdSpecialist6598 8h ago
Almost everyone in showbiz is underpaid and if you make the big money, it is only for short period and it doesn't last as long as you think. Yes, people waste but a lot of time stuff happens someone you love gets sick, your side business goes under etc.
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u/SinoSoul 7h ago
I know a few show runners and script writers, etc. multi millionaires. I know a couple of voice and theatre actors, not multi millionaires.
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u/Jackski 6h ago
I remember someone trying to shame"The sherminator" from American pie because he was a waiter at a fancy restaurant. Like he had a bit part in a couple of films, he clearly didn't make much so why the fuck are you giving him shit?
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u/ComputerMysterious48 7h ago
Yeah TV stars don’t make nearly as much as people think. From what I’ve heard, being the star of a successful TV show is relative to having a well paying “normal” job in terms of money.
Likely making six figures, and the job security for 4-10 years I imagine is nice, but when the show ends they’re not set for life and will need to find other work.
And that’s the star. I would assume recurring roles pay less.
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u/Deflagratio1 6h ago
And syndication doesn't pay as well as it used to. Used to be that a TV star could build up a decent portfolio of royalties from reruns and boxed set sales.
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u/MiddleAgeMuchacho 5h ago
I once heard a quick story from a comedian who landed a commercial and his then-girlfriend quit her job.
She thought that was it. That was the break.
It definitely wasn’t.
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u/Ok_Outcome_6213 6h ago
I don't get the mentality of job shaming. I've almost never been without a job simply because I went out and got a job at gas stations or fast food restaurants or as a cleaner if I was ever out of work. Yeah, none of them were glamorous or going to help "advance my career" or anything, but a job is a job and honest money shouldn't be looked down on.
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u/MarkItZeroDonnie 8h ago
People are miserable and misery loves company. They think every actor that’s been on a 80s sitcom is just lounging in their Hollywood Hills home off the Tubi streaming commissions 🙄
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u/Jason_Likes_Cameras 8h ago
The dude who played Spanky in the 90s Little Rascals was photographed working at Wal-Mart and the photos landed on TMZ. People apparently think anybody who has ever been in a movie is a multimillionaire and started making wild guesses that he'd lost all his money on drugs or gambling. I'm guessing however much he got paid was enough to pay for a few semesters of college at best.
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u/Due-Technology5758 8h ago
And for a more recent example, RJ Mitte, who played Walt Jr. In Breaking Bad and recently took his own life, made like 200k total from the show. Across 6 years of shooting. Residuals apparently were insignificant due to streaming service models. And he ended up having to pay more than that to the IRS because his manager was stealing the money he was supposed to be paying his taxes with.
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u/Ree_For_Thee 7h ago
Across 6 years of shooting
That's not even a normal fucking job where I live lol
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u/Deflagratio1 6h ago
His character is in a lot of the episodes, but his screen time is very low. His actual time involvement probably adds up to 1-2 months a year. So that's $200k for half to a full year of work.
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u/Diptothaset 7h ago
People convince themselves that stars are elite and don’t suffer. Being rich and famous is a motivator for many people; if they find out that you can work hard make good money and it still not be enough people will be terrified lol
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u/VaporProof 6h ago
It’s an entertainment industry thing. A person working retail making $50k a year will call an actor making $50k a year a loser because they only work in bit parts on tv or commercials and not marvel movies.
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u/Intrepid_Block_11b 8h ago
Thats Donovan McNabb!
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u/AlternativeGeneric 8h ago
No, it’s Tiger Woods!
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u/Embarrassed-House577 8h ago
Thats clearly don cheadle
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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 8h ago
Whoever it is, he's into feet.
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u/Equivalent-Pop-5329 8h ago
I know someone that has ridiculously large feet she used to hang with Roxy R.I.P.
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u/FlowerOk2623 8h ago
Ridiculously large feet? Sounds like some kind of bird.
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u/Longjumping_Badger28 8h ago
Recently I’ve been thinking ostrich because of how far apart the eyes are
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u/No_Stinking_Badges85 8h ago
I dont care, but I know I'm really not gonna care when I'm high as shit on crack
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u/Salihe6677 8h ago
He's lovin' it!
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u/LordoftheScheisse 4h ago
I just gotta say that the way he flips his shades up, immediately says "whoo!" and flips them back down gets me every time.
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u/surficialgolem 8h ago
SPRINTS SPRINTS
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u/Ordinary_Release9538 7h ago
If I have to say it one more time. If I have to say it ONE MORE TIME.
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u/SuddenAvocado 7h ago
Why don't people get that most actors are broke as dirt? Ke Huy Quan has spoken several times about how he lost his SAG-AFTRA health insurance right after finishing filming Everything Everywhere All at Once. The actors of Orange is the New Black routinely spoke about working as waiters while filming. It doesn't really pay until you're an A-lister, which is why nepo babies do it: they can afford to work for nothing in an over saturated industry.
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u/flopisit32 5h ago
Years ago they were job shaming Gary Coleman (Arnold from Different Strokes) when he got a job as a security guard on a movie set.
The poor guy was not getting any acting jobs. His fame had dwindled in the 1980s. He was born with extremely challenging health problems to begin with. He was effectively disabled, to an extent, because of his size.
And yet the gossip rags were hammering him because he was trying to do an ordinary job.
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u/TheSmokingJacket 3h ago
What's worse was that his parents stole his Diff'rent Strokes trust fund money.
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u/BlauSpadern 5h ago
Yeah but the idea of Gary Coleman trying to intervene physically in a security situation is pretty ludicrous.
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u/kalel3000 4h ago edited 2h ago
In the video that went around the internet back in the day, Gary jumped on a car and sat on the hood to prevent the car from leaving.
Edit: it was to stop paparazzi from taking pictures of Pamela Anderson on set. He was blocking their view through the windshield not stopping them from leaving.
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u/Ok-Classroom5548 5h ago
That’s exactly how healthcare works for all US Americans…you stop working and you lose your healthcare because it is tied to your job.
The healthcare network is separate and can be accessed at open enrollment and when you lose your healthcare, and cost is based on income.
Actors are just like us! (Joke)
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u/Electronic-Fix-4655 5h ago
Yep. We need work reform. Makes zero sense all countries at World Cup managed a healthcare system only the US couldn’t do. Need to get rid of corporate lobbying
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u/SackOfPotatoes949 5h ago
My high school friend has been an actress for 25 years, and was one of the leads in a very big movie (Ben Affleck was the main character.) She is barely getting by and mostly works as a waitress.
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u/DulceEtDecorumEst 4h ago
Your friend is……
Raquel Castro from Jersey Girl!
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Kerry Bishe from Argo
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u/scooter1979 4h ago
They said "very big movie," that rules out Jersey Girl...
(I kid, I love Smith and all of his movies)
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u/Sfpuberdriver 4h ago
Well his highest grossing movie is Batman v Superman so I’m going with Gal Gadot
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u/LeFreeke 4h ago
Remember murder, she wrote? Angela Lansbury hired actors older actors, whose insurance was about to run out so that they could re-up their credentials with SAG to extend their insurance.
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u/dismayhurta 3h ago
She was such an awesome person.
Though, she was a murder magnet. I swear Cabot Cove was the murder capital of the world.
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u/Full-Decision-9029 4h ago
all of this.
There's a bunch of Top British Actors who are literally aristocrats. That Top Young Actor Everyone's Talking About in Hollywood is almost invariably "their mother was a French model and their father owns a hedge fund (which owns half of Indonesia)"
I have a few actor friends, who book a lot of work. They all have full time jobs - the most fortunate have full time jobs that lets them take a lot of unpaid vacation. Which lets them take 3 weeks off to shoot a feature or whatever, then get right back to work.
I had this (very) brief moment in my life where it looked like I might have been able to make it as a screenwriter. There was just this very, very small issue: I couldn't afford to spend several years working full time for free.* (Though of course I "pivoted" to academia which, would you look at that, kind of requires you to work full time for several years for free, so I pivoted to archives and libraries and then people were say "ah, we see what's holding you back, all you need to do is work several years full time for free.")
I do really miss it, but man, the rent's gotta be paid.
*And by "free" we mean, sure you signed a contract that would pay you ten grand for three month's work writing or cowriting a screenplay or a TV show setting bible, it's just, lol, we can't pay you right now, exactly, but it will open so many doors. Sureeee
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u/Imaginary-Gap-2802 5h ago
Look at RJ Mitte that just passed away, because of some bs contract his manager had him sign, he hardly made anything from breaking bad and that’s a huge show!
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u/alwayzbored114 2h ago
To be more accurate, if what I read is correct, it was Taxes. His financial manager asked him for tax payments, he wrote the check to her, and she cashed it personally without paying the taxes. After years of this, with interest and fees compounding, the total owed to the IRS was more than he had actually made from Breaking Bad in total
In effect, same as you said, just clarifying. It's not that his pay was necessarily bad (that I'd read?) but he just got fuuuuuuUUUUUUUuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUcked over
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u/rjwyonch 5h ago
A dude from orphan black was one of the regular catering staff at my office. His wife had a kid, steady income and regular hours were the right call.
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u/PretzelsThirst 5h ago
Redditors aren’t great at the real world. I saw a comment yesterday deriding ALL actors because the poster thought that all actors just do it to be rich and famous.
Like dude actually thinks it’s an easy guarantee to be a millionaire if you decide to try acting.
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u/chanaandeler_bong 3h ago
Reddit is still littered with underage kids and college age kids that have not been on their own for one second of their lives telling everyone else what’s important.
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u/VralGrymfang 5h ago
There are actors working on The Pitt who are also nurse, and work as nurses when not filming.
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u/daygo449 8h ago
Why would anyone shame dude for making a living? Acting is like sports. You are hot for a minute, and then you aren’t. He could end up on another series, and blow up big. Look at Ke Huy Quan as an example. He wasn’t doing anything really big for decades, and now, he’s as hot as can be. I just don’t get people sometimes
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u/SpeaksSouthern 7h ago
Have you met people? Have you worked a customer service job? People literally think you are lesser. Owners literally treat you like a rat
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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 7h ago
it wasn't shaming as much as shock. The person who took the photo never expected they'd see Elvin from the Cosby show picking up shifts at Trader Joes.
That person was still a piece of shit for wrecking the guy's privacy, but I don't think they did it to shame him. just more of a "can you believe this?!" type thing
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u/Far_Pineapple_1512 7h ago
The OOP might not have intended it to be shaming but the bandwagon that followed sure did.
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u/Chaosr21 3h ago
Idk man only assholes go around taking pictures of people at work without permission
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u/Goodly 6h ago
Geoffrey Owens was in The Pitt, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed and Abbott Elementary this year - all hot shows. Luckily it seems like it turned out okay for him.
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u/ninjette847 6h ago
He also stopped getting residuals because The Cosby Show stopped having reruns or streaming. It's not just that he isn't popular anymore, it's Bill Cosby's fault. That show used to always have reruns on. Between multiple channels you probably could have watched it 24/7.
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u/junkyardpig 8h ago
Shaming anyone for any job that doesn’t involve hurting someone is despicable. Also, Trader Joe’s seems like a great place to work.
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u/ScaredEngraver 5h ago
TJ's did burn me out eventually and I had to leave, but I wouldn't have taken any other retail job. If things ever get bad I'll definitely return
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u/paperbuddha 8h ago
Trader Joe’s and Costco are the two GOATs from what I’ve read/seen.
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u/99timewasting 6h ago
My old roommate was a manager at Trader Joe's and made more than I did in my 9-5 office job
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u/melgibson64 6h ago
Since the first time my mom went to a Trader Joe's years ago she has said she's going to work there part time when she retires because she loves going in there and how personable everyone is. That should be any time now so we'll see if she does it.
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u/dadofwar93 8h ago edited 5h ago
One of our sales guy works in theatre and organizes plays cause that's what he likes but that passion is gig based. You can't put food on your table if you don't have a permanent job. That's why he is also a salesman and his years of work in theatre helps him in sales.
There is no shame in having a hardworking mentality.
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u/AdSpecialist6598 7h ago
When a few friends of mine started working in showbiz as support crew they were shocked at the number of well-known acts that took jobs that many would consider beneath them and the answer was always we needed the money for x and a job is a job; and no most of the time is wasn't because said famous person blew their money
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u/PositivelyPerfidious 6h ago
Too many people are just losers. I tell everyone that I am a construction worker. Nobody cares. Occasionally someone wants to act like it’s some terrible job (in the circles I run in). But then it’s funny to see the difference in their demeanor once they eventually hear from someone that we own one of the biggest construction firms in the Western world.
I have tremendous respect for anyone working hard and contributing to their family and society at large. It’s mostly by virtue of luck and circumstances outside of our control that we end up where we are. Anyone who forgets that needs to do some serious introspection.
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u/MacQveen 8h ago edited 8h ago
Doing an honest job is honorable.
Photographing people without their consent for online clout or drama is dishonorable whore behavior.
Get it right, society. Please.
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u/Laxedlaks 8h ago
To be fair, isn’t this kind of an example of society actually getting it right - at least in the end?
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u/Intelligent-Tie-3232 8h ago
Wtf, why should someone be in shame because of having a job. People who think about other in such a way should consider their own behaviour at first.
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u/MoneyBeeeee 6h ago
For years, I've had relatives try to shame me out of my union job because they personally think I could 'do better' than being blue collar.
Some people are just insufferable.
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u/_-4twenty-_ 8h ago
There’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Everyone has to work.
Actors aren’t waiting tables in Hollywood because they’re bored.
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u/FoogYllis 8h ago
Exactly and I wish him well.
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u/_-4twenty-_ 8h ago
I was excited to him in The Pitt and Abbott Elementary. I actually cheered for him. “Hey!”
I hope he’s happy.
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u/Difficult_Ask_1686 7h ago
I was thrilled to see him too. I hope being the superintendent for Abbot means he’ll be around.
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 8h ago
That's actually Donnovan McNabb. He used to play quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. You can, too, if you start everyday with a hearty breakfast from McDonald's.
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u/Automatic_Bus_7634 8h ago
That's not Donovan McNabb, dumbass
That is clearly Tiger Woods
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u/drewzil1a 6h ago
Like the new Sausage Egg McGriddle value meal, available now for a limited time for under five dollars?!
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u/Beautiful-Address727 7h ago
Thats tiger woods? Or is it don cheadle?
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u/jthagler 6h ago
It's Donovan McNabb
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u/azsnaz 6h ago
Hey guys, I'm Donovan McNabb. I play quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. And I'm here to tell you can, too, if you start everyday with a hearty breakfast from McDonald's. Uh, like the new Sausage Egg McGriddle Value Meal available now for a limited time for under five dollars. Remember guys, real champs eat at McDonald's. I'm lovin' it. Can I get the check?
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u/Strange_Explorer_780 6h ago
Geoffrey Owen’s seems like a great guy and he was awesome in It’s Always Sunny, gross that someone tried to shame him for working.
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u/NewPresWhoDis 8h ago
He went on to explain that most actors and indeed most entertainers are gig workers.
Pin this and shout from the rooftops for every Redditor who asks "What were they thinking?" about any actor in a flop or bomb.
They're thinking about how to pay the bills.
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u/throjimmy 8h ago
You mean Tiger Woods, this man’s name is Tiger Woods. Just do it!
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u/Independent-Bed-7958 8h ago
People are so disgusting. So enthusiastic to do Big Brother's work. Zero basic every day entry level privacy. I'm glad it had the reverse effect.
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u/SimpleGuy7 8h ago
FYI
The general population today just kinda sucks
Ruiners of most things..people
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u/Sanctus_Poopabumsus 8h ago
He was on the Rookie after this! So glad tbis resulted in something good.
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u/polygraph-net 7h ago
There's a reason so many actors and entertainers are on Cameo - they need the money.
There's nothing wrong with working at Trader Joe's. I'd even go as far as saying it's honourable - the guy is willing to do whatever he needs to do to make money for himself and his family.
Shame on whatever evil person tried to make a fool of him.
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u/SignificantApricot69 7h ago
When you see guys like this working at Trader Joe’s it’s a choice. No reason for shame or support, imho. What I mean is he’s a Yale graduate son of a U.S. Congressman who chose to make a living as a working actor while taking working class jobs and keeping his time and options open for auditioning and doing small acting gigs in his 50s-60s. I admire people who work in the arts and follow their passions instead of a paycheck, but I also think part of respecting those choices and the dignity of a human is respecting when they chose to work at Trader Joe’s while taking bit parts instead of “selling out” by getting a regular job or using the privilege of their upbringing and Ivy League education for career purposes.
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u/EducationalReview237 6h ago
He responded to the "shame" by posting a very unashamed response that he took the Trader Joe's job for the steady paycheck and benefits, end of story. He never complained.
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u/permafrost1979 6h ago
What would be wrong with using their degree? How's that selling out?
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u/Jeanne23x 8h ago
I ran into someone from a sitcom I loved as a little kid working a "regular job" when I was around 20. I felt bad because he seemed embarrassed to be found out but I was over the moon excited to see him in person because of how much he made me laugh.
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u/LikeIsaidItsNothing 8h ago
What kind of loser do you have to be to first, take the guy's pic without his permission WHILE HE'S WORKING, post it online.
then to act like working a regular job is something to be ashamed of ?? Seriously what is WRONG with some people.
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u/leafsforever811 8h ago
How many actors out here posting they have no health insurance or cant pay their bills? This man went and stepped up and got a job. A, J O B !!! a job, something some people won't get off their asses and get. Man is providing for his family. Stop belitting people.
Funny how people support racist and make gofund me's for them. A woman can call a child derogatory names and make bank. But a down and out man, legitimately trying and working... you'll going to clown on him. Society is a joke. Stop this bs. Fight those who need to be fought and start helping the ones who need to be helped.
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u/CHERNO-B1LL 7h ago
Attempting to feel superior by pulling people down has to be one of the most loathsome personality traits a human can have.
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u/Delicious-Pie8944 8h ago
That’s Don Cheadle researching his next role. Move past it
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