r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 14h 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.

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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/PantsDontHaveAnswers 14h ago

Whoever it is, he's into feet.

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u/Equivalent-Pop-5329 14h ago

I know someone that has ridiculously large feet she used to hang with Roxy R.I.P.

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u/FlowerOk2623 14h ago

Ridiculously large feet? Sounds like some kind of bird.

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u/Longjumping_Badger28 13h ago

Recently I’ve been thinking ostrich because of how far apart the eyes are

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u/TalkinSeaCucumber 11h ago

I'd like to look that up to confirm, but I'd rather rip out my own pubes. Shellac, shellac, rip! AY YAY YAY YAY YAY! machine gun noises

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u/QuantumJock 12h ago

Do the chickens have large talons?

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u/DigitalSoulja 13h ago

She was a good hoor

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u/Internal_Anything_94 4h ago

Roxy, God bless you. You were a good whοre. You serviced me like no other whοre ever did. Not only my crank, but my heart.

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u/DiscHashDisc 13h ago

And that T-shirt he's wearing is tighter than dickskin!

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u/mrsir1987 13h ago

Ma’am you are aware that tshirt is $500?

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u/AlternativeGeneric 12h ago

Hmmm do I quote the next line or not….

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u/CarsCarsCars1995 5h ago

It'd be one thing if he wasn't, but he clearly is...

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u/CatoChateau 11h ago

That's nothing, this bird over here is $15,000.

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u/Slappaadabass 10h ago

Shut up, baby dischashdisc

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u/Traditional_Bar_7101 10h ago

I became a foot girl because of him