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Actors who didn’t use the casting couch

Actors you’re pretty positive never used the casting couch in their careers. Needless to say Jennifer Lawrence will not be in this thread.

by Anonymousreply 49October 31, 2020 6:01 PM

Rondo Hatton.

by Anonymousreply 1October 25, 2020 1:04 PM

Evans

by Anonymousreply 2October 25, 2020 1:06 PM

danny devito and Rhea Perlman

by Anonymousreply 3October 25, 2020 1:12 PM

Billy Barty.

by Anonymousreply 4October 25, 2020 1:15 PM

About 98% of them never did. On DL, It’s that amount that have.

by Anonymousreply 5October 25, 2020 1:17 PM

Gwyneth Paltrow. All she had to do was tell them she had a boyfriend and they left her alone! She’s so smart!

by Anonymousreply 6October 25, 2020 1:19 PM

Steve Buscemi.

by Anonymousreply 7October 25, 2020 1:20 PM

Abe Vigoda

Lassie

Mr. Ed

by Anonymousreply 8October 25, 2020 1:21 PM

Don Knotts

by Anonymousreply 9October 25, 2020 1:22 PM

Margaret Rutherford.

by Anonymousreply 10October 25, 2020 1:33 PM

Athene Seyler.

by Anonymousreply 11October 25, 2020 1:33 PM

Ron Howard's daughter.

by Anonymousreply 12October 25, 2020 1:33 PM

Nedra Volz

Although I'm sure many a director was tempted!

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by Anonymousreply 13October 25, 2020 1:36 PM

Woody Allen.

by Anonymousreply 14October 25, 2020 1:36 PM

Danny de Vito. Roseanne. Amy Schumer.

by Anonymousreply 15October 25, 2020 1:37 PM

Sally Hawkins, Laurie Metcalf, Janet McTeer, Cherry Jones. Actors with actual talent, unlike JLaw the ho.

by Anonymousreply 16October 25, 2020 1:41 PM

Yeah name child of people in the industry. They used nepotism instead.

by Anonymousreply 17October 25, 2020 1:43 PM

Linda Hunt

by Anonymousreply 18October 25, 2020 1:45 PM

How come there are no photos of a young Abe Vigoda online?

by Anonymousreply 19October 25, 2020 1:48 PM

They all did

by Anonymousreply 20October 25, 2020 1:50 PM

Ernest Borgnine

by Anonymousreply 21October 25, 2020 1:51 PM

Mira Sorvino

by Anonymousreply 22October 25, 2020 1:54 PM

[quote]How come there are no photos of a young Abe Vigoda online?

They hadn’t invented cameras yet.

by Anonymousreply 23October 25, 2020 2:01 PM

Doesn’t make for an exciting contribution on DL but I would also say 95% of actors have not. Perhaps if you drill down to A Listers or actors who work for a certain director it’s more but actors as a whole it’s really not common. The gatekeepers in casting offices are mostly middle aged women. Ditto for agencies that will consider signing new talent.

Thousands of gorgeous young people enter the profession every year. If it was easy to sleep your way to stardom, this country would have 100 million movie stars and a few Trump people in the middle insulting them! My ex was great friends with a former agent. Even great connections do not mean you will get an A List career. This guy knew several successful actors very well. One was Suzanne Pleshette (he and his interior designer partner had a monthly brunch date with her). Suzanne has serious connections in the biz but she told him if you want to keep the friendship you cannot ever ask for career help because when you do the friendship is over. He also said he joked that surely she could have blown a Lew Wasserman behind the wife’s back and got a supporting role in a picture. She said nope because it puts you on the disposable list in the minds of powerful men and they will destroy you if they think you’ll blab.

He also said that people in the business sit around and ponder why X has a career and Y doesn’t too! He said nobody has ever figured out how to take a gorgeous young actor from a great acting school and guaranteed turn them into an A lister or even a TV star. He said you just never know. The young gorgeous thing you’re certain has “it” will struggle to book anything and the 40 year old you passed on signing will get a lucrative TV gig.

by Anonymousreply 24October 25, 2020 2:05 PM

The casting couch exists even outside of mainstream Hollywood acting. There has been Broadway scandals as well where it was revealed favors were exchanged. It is a thing in the entire industry, as well as the sports, dance and fashion industries.

by Anonymousreply 25October 25, 2020 2:11 PM

R25

*have

by Anonymousreply 26October 25, 2020 2:11 PM

R25

And the music industry as well of course

by Anonymousreply 27October 25, 2020 2:20 PM

An A-list career is a heady brew of talent, charisma, and timing. Having the right look and the right attitude at just the right time AND getting just the right role to showcase your talent. Every A-lister has a breakthrough role that led to bigger things. If that role hadn't come along, their careers would have been very different.

No wonder actors are so neurotic. It must be crushing to know you can look great and work hard for years and years and never break through, while some idiot fresh off the bus falls ass backwards into your dream life. How many pretty brunettes of the early 90s must have hated Julia Roberts? How many handsome blond studs would have happily broken a bottle over Brad Pitt's head? These days, every skinny doll-faced twink in LA must be ready to stick a shiv into Timothee Chalamet.

by Anonymousreply 28October 25, 2020 2:39 PM

[Quote] The gatekeepers in casting offices are mostly middle aged women.

Like Christian Slater's mother?

by Anonymousreply 29October 25, 2020 2:41 PM

Gabourey Sidibe

by Anonymousreply 30October 25, 2020 3:06 PM

Chrissy Metz. The couch isn’t big and hefty enough.

by Anonymousreply 31October 25, 2020 3:24 PM

A cruise liner wouldn’t be big or hefty enough.

by Anonymousreply 32October 25, 2020 3:26 PM

Why are all actress lesbians? Why are lesbians willing to sell their bodies fir fame but not straight girls? Cher slept with Sonny fir example.

by Anonymousreply 33October 25, 2020 3:46 PM

[quote] Chrissy Metz. The couch isn’t big and hefty enough.

She IS the casting couch.

by Anonymousreply 34October 25, 2020 3:58 PM

Linda Hunt and Peter Dinklage. I am 99% certain.

by Anonymousreply 35October 25, 2020 4:00 PM

No, Dinklage definitely did.

Everyone wants to fuck a midget.

by Anonymousreply 36October 25, 2020 4:04 PM

Gary Coleman

Emmanuel Lewis

Vicki the Robot

by Anonymousreply 37October 25, 2020 4:05 PM

Mena Suvari

by Anonymousreply 38October 26, 2020 10:31 AM

Melissa Gilbert used it for sure.

by Anonymousreply 39October 31, 2020 3:31 PM

Zero Mostel

by Anonymousreply 40October 31, 2020 3:34 PM

Chrissy Metz

by Anonymousreply 41October 31, 2020 3:34 PM

R41, you couldn’t read ten fucking posts before yours?

Really?

by Anonymousreply 42October 31, 2020 3:43 PM

I was just scrolling by and HAD to say Chrissy Metz.

I'm not doing this thread.

by Anonymousreply 43October 31, 2020 3:50 PM

That hag with the wonky lip who played Bette's sister in Hocus Pocus

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by Anonymousreply 44October 31, 2020 3:53 PM

R44. That’s Kathy Najimy. She’s a fucking riot.

And she’s not bad to look at, either.

by Anonymousreply 45October 31, 2020 3:58 PM

R43 is a blast at parties.

I’m not playing the game, but I’m going to throw an answer out anyway.

by Anonymousreply 46October 31, 2020 3:59 PM

Bobby Wheeler

by Anonymousreply 47October 31, 2020 4:04 PM

Sonia from Eastenders

by Anonymousreply 48October 31, 2020 5:54 PM

Herve Villechaize. He couldn’t climb up to the couch.

by Anonymousreply 49October 31, 2020 6:01 PM
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