Zosia Mamet exposes Matthew Weiner as a real asshole

Now I want to read her book. Weiner has been well-known for his assholishness for years. [quote] I ran into that showrunner at the Emmys a few years later. Both of our shows were nominated. He pretended not to know who I was. They swept the awards that night and part of me resented him for that. But you know, he hasn’t really made anything since. And sometimes I think about him sitting in his office alone feeling sad and angry and anxious and wondering if everyone’s forgotten him, and for a moment it makes me feel sorry for him, feel compassion for him, hope that his life isn’t too bad…

But let’s be real, only for a moment.

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I like her. I've seen her in a few things other than Girls and she's always quirky and unique.

Ugly nepo baby.

I wonder if she hadn’t quit Mad Men, if her character would’ve tried to hook up with Peggy. He had both Joan and Megan hit on by other women.

I remember that scene. “Mystery Date” episode. She was showing some photos of the slaughtered Chicago nurses to the copywriters…I don’t recall her opening the envelope in an awkward way!

So ugly and talentless

I wouldn't be able to pick her out of a lineup (haven't watched anything else she's been in) but her story sounds legit.

MM was a great show but Weiner's assholism bled through most of the male characters.

And she's right, he hasn't done much since. The show he did for Amazon after MM was a slight little piffle.

R7- What she should be doing is exposing herself as a

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R3 is Zosia Mamet

I don't care if she is a nepo baby, no one should be treated that way.

She should know all about assholes. Her father is David Mamet.

[quote]But you know, he hasn’t really made anything since.

Ha!

Revenge is a dish best served COLD.

Remember when she did a gofundme? Bitch, you're rich-fuck off.

[quote] I don't care if she is a nepo baby, no one should be treated that way.

Only beautiful people should have rights.

he hasn’t really made anything since

Not true. He made the series The Romanoffs. I liked two of the episodes.

They should have said anything of note. When you’re swimming in Emmys for Soprano’s and Mad Men I guess people expect you to be as prolific as Norman Lear.

Those would be hard to follow up.

The Romanoffs has an episode with Isabelle Huppert as an actress turned director making a film. She has a funny line when she tells the actors I Can't Play All The Parts!

[quote] Remember when she did a gofundme? No, do tell.

Nepo baby still seething all these years later because someone didn't recognise her at an awards show where you're getting blasted with faces old and new wherever you turn.

Weiner may be an asshole, but talking smack about your former employers won't get unnoticed either.

R19 it was a failed Kickstarter campaign in 2013 for her and her sister (The Cabin Sisters) to make a music video. They raised less than $3,000 of $32,000 goal.

MW had a lot of balls criticizing her acting skills when he hired his teenage son who was a HORRIBLE actor and derailed every scene he was in with his weird delivery.

[quote] he hasn’t really made anything since [quote]Not true. He made the series The Romanoffs. I liked two of the episodes.

"The Romanoffs" was from 2018 -- kind of a long stretch between then and now. And liking two of the eight episodes isn't a ringing endorsement.

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Does David Mamet share his wealth with her? Some rich parents think it hinders their children's ambition and personal growth to give them a lot of money and expect them to earn their own. Maybe her dad is one of them.

I'm guessing that he doesn't share his wealth, r25. In my experience, people with really nasty political beliefs are usually mean on a personal level.

No, she's not a nepo baby.

[Quote] Does Mamet think of his children as nepo babies who’ve benefited from his illustrious career? Not at all, he said. He feels gratified that they’ve learned from being on set with him.

[Quote] “They earned it by merit,” he said of daughter Zosia Mamet, who starred in “Girls.” They haven’t benefited from any type of privilege, he said, and he thinks that DEI initiatives are taking away hard-earned opportunities. “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”

Again, people are so weirdly stupid about nepo babies.

Zosia Mamet has talent. Her dad is a famous playwright. If he used his influence as an important playwright to insist she be cast in his plays and she was a mediocre actress, then that would make her a nepo baby. Or, if he some how had enough pull to get her cast in anything.

Zero sign that happened.

Now, Matthew Weiner is guilty of nepotism by putting his weirdly untalented son into Mad Men, over and over and over. But, since the son is weird and untalented, it didn't help him.

I saw not a glimmer of talent in her performance on Mad Men.

Flat, disengaged, spiritless, yes.

I can smell her nappy pussy…..

They sat me in the hair chair at 5:55, and just as I sat down, the showrunner’s assistant came in and began talking to the head of the hair department like I wasn’t there. They both looked at my reflection in the mirror as if it were a photograph.

“I didn’t know her hair was that long?” the assistant said. “Me either,” the head hairdresser said.

My hair had always been this long. My hair had never not been this long. In my audition, which the showrunner had attended, in all my fitting photos, in my entire nineteen years of life that I had lived up until now, my hair had always been this long. But they seemed to be upset with me inadvertently for not telling them that my hair was this long. It was below my boobs at this point and, as previously men‑ tioned, had been ever since they met me.

They continued to stare at me in the mirror as the assistant took a photo, texted it to someone, waited for a reply, and then turned to the head hairdresser and said, “He doesn’t like it. You need to cut a bob and we need her on set in five for a blocking rehearsal, with short hair.”

The blood drained entirely from the body of the hairdresser as if a vampire had tapped her like a keg. And then she snapped to and began to tear the hair and makeup trailer apart searching for her cutting scissors. Three minutes into our five minutes, she gave up her search and held up a straight razor. That’s when she told me she couldn’t find her scissors and this would have to do. And then, without so much as asking me, she went to work. She grabbed a fistful of my long, thick horse mane of hair and began slicing it Sweeney Todd–style. As it fell around me I just kept thinking, Maybe this is a dream, maybe this is a prank, maybe I never got this part at all and this entire thing has been a hallucination.

Two minutes later I was staring at myself in the mirror with chin‑length hair. The rest of it sprawled on the ground around me, missing its host. I could still feel it, almost like a phantom limb. A production assistant came in and whisked me off to set for a blocking rehearsal that I floated through. Nobody mentioned my hair again. Nobody mentioned the length or the fact that it looked like somebody had frantically cut it with a straight razor, which they had.

The first day of shooting was a success, and minus my impromptu haircut, I had a blast.

I might have to watch The Romanoffs again. I didn’t hate it, but the only episodes I remember are the one with Aaron Eckhart and the one with Isabelle Huppert and Christina Hendricks.

She’s the worst actress out there, well, after Billie Lourd.

"The Romanoffs" was from 2018 -- kind of a long stretch between then and now. And liking two of the eight episodes isn't a ringing endorsement.

R23 p- I only had access to three episodes on one of those For Your Emmy Consideration DVDs.

R32 - I really liked the one with Kathryn Hahn and Jay R. Ferguson as the American couple who go to Russia to adopt a baby.

The Huppert and Hendricks one is ruined by Hendricks' ginormous tits presence. How can you take her seriously lugging those around. I remember one scene when she is mean to Huppert, saying Huppert is jealous of her youth. I thought, honey, you will NEVER be as good an actress as Huppert.

This girl is so incredibly fug it's a wonder she even made it to a screen at all. Makes me want to puke just looking at her. Always has.

It's a shame she looks like her daddy. I always thought her mother was hot, and I loved her in House of Games.

It's a funny story but how is it possible the head hairdresser on a successful tv series (any tv series!) doesn't have a scissors on hand? Or if in the unlikelihood she didn't, surely the wardrobe dept. would have a scissors.

It really makes no sense.

Her husband Evan Jonigkeit is very hot. And a very talented actor. I'm really surprised he hasn't had more success.

[quote] I ran into that showrunner at the Emmys a few years later. Both of our shows were nominated. He pretended not to know who I was. They swept the awards that night and part of me resented him for that. But you know, he hasn’t really made anything since.

Not everyone can have the triumph you had as Shoshanna in "Girls," Zosia. That's a performance that will go down as legendary, and will be remembered long after "Mad Men" is forgotten.

Doesn't she pronounce her name Sasha even though it's spelled Zosia? What's that about?

Fuck people who act like this. They need a kick in the cunt. Too many tolerate that type of behavior.

The fact that you never went back and watched the entire show speaks volumes, r34.

Show me where I can watch it and I will.

Was she strapped to the hair department chair and unable to escape being cropped? Otherwise she could have simply stood up and said no.

I 100% remember the scene she is referring to, S5's "Mystery Date". She was bringing in photographs of the Richard Speck murders. she played Peggy's lesbian friend and Life photographer. And indeed, we never saw her again after the scene. I liked the character but tbh she didnt have much future on the show anyway.

Weiner always seemed like an asshole, just going by mean spirited things I heard him say about the characters.

Thanks for the haircut!

Untalented hos always tryna come for excellence. Even before Mad Men, this man was writing and directing on The Sopranos. This fucking man looking bitch. Nepo ass, sour grapes ass. Step your talent up.

I'd rather you go on camera bald than look like a tramp!

I dont think ZM is anything special talent wise BUT the camera likes her. Not that she's particularly beautiful but she has a unique, cute-ish face. But thats about it.

I'm seeing 8 episodes available on Amazon, r43.

Also talk about being surprised someone what straight, it took a year of convincing me Weiner was straight.

Couldn't they have put her hair up in a 60s bouffant?

Her character was supposed to be pretty moder and cutting edge, plus she was a lesbian, a bouffant wouldnt have fit the character

He did something very cruel to a friend of mine.

Hired him as a writers assistant on Mad Men. Fired him after a week. So shitty. I don't enjoy him.

Uh, lest you all forget, Matthew Weiner was canceled at the height of metoo. I recall it sort of took, but not completely. What ended him was that that Romanoffs thing was mostly unwatchable dreck. That combined with the allegations of sexual harassment and horrible behind the scenes behavior pretty much finished him. He’s been absent since then.

“Granted, in 2017, Weiner was accused of sexual harassment during the height of the #MeToo era, though he faced few professional repercussions. He was also described as an “emotional terrorist” in the writers’ room by former Mad Men writer Marti Noxon (UnReal). Still, many in Hollywood have survived similar reputations, as long as they keep printing money for the studio.”

That didn’t happen with the flop Romanoffs which was ripped to shreds by critics and avoided by everyone else.

Evan Jonigkeit was HAF in that Broadway play he did with Kathleen Turner. His character was high and horned up on Meth and stripped it all off. Still jerk off to the memory.

Mad Men is a great albeit uneven show (especially the last couple of seasons) but Matthew Weiner is, by most accounts, a huge asshole.

[quote] Couldn't they have put her hair up in a 60s bouffant?

Oh, come on. That would have been incredibly inappropriate for a New York lesbian bohemian free spirit (which is what her character was) in 1966.

Yeah that was really good.

This is why we passed on Mad Men at HBO.

Even though he's an asshole, I'd love to see a sequel show to Mad Men that takes place in the 1980s.

Why on Earth Zosia Mamet thinks the world was waiting for a collection of her essays is beyond me. Who is she, Joan fucking Didion? Please.

Lord no R61. I am up to my ass and burned out in 80s nostalgia.

If a spinoff was possible I'd prefer the 20s when Sterling Cooper was created, when advertising first became a big thing. Or if not, Roger during WW2. It'd be interesting to see how a trustfund baby with a golden sppon up his butt but never ending witt dealt with the war. I

Such an unfortunate looking girl.

With a name to match.

Weiner looks like Jason Alexander

I think it would interesting to see how the characters navigated the regressive atmosphere of Reagan's America, r63. These are people who loosened up and grew during the 60s and I'm wondering how they would handle life in the 80s. It's also a good decade for a sequel because Don, Peggy, Pete, Roger and Joan could all conceivably still be working at that point in time. It would be about 15 years after the finale.

I love how much this has captured DL's imagination. Mamet and Weiner, of all things.

She was upset about having her hair cut? That is stupid

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R68 So, you'd be fine with me coming over to your house and cutting your hair with cuticle scissors?

R68 it wasn’t cut, it was chopped. And to have hair that you’ve had your entire life cut off in two minutes with a razor when you’re not expecting it would be pretty traumatic. That’s why things like that are written into contracts beforehand.

No scissors, no wigs? What kinda operation was that?

And as far as a GoFundMe, people do those not just for the money but for the promotion/marketing as well so you have a built in audience when something is released. People will watch and support if they are invested.

GoFundMes when they're done by anyone with any kind of name or anyone who is presumed to have a bit of money, is always a risky move. People are always gonna shrug and think, "pay for it yourself, honey..."

Mamet looks attractive in OP's pic.

I would watch an 80s Mad Men. It's not like the cast is doing much these days, they'd probably be all for it.

I didn’t love her on Girls but I didn’t like Shosh. Except for the Japan episodes and after. I’ve liked her in most other things.

I guess you missed Flight Attendant. She was horrible in that. It was like bad high school theater.

I have such a hard-on for Evan Jonigkeit, I came in here to see if anyone else was confused how she landed that stud. But I hadn't heard about him getting naked in a play as r56 mentioned - goddamn I wish I'd seen that!

Zosia Mamet

Well, she knows assholes when she sees them. Her Dad is one of the biggest in Hollywood.

I do have to add one of my prouder moments in life. I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater Company. It was a studio founded by the first class of students who went through David Mamet and William H. Macy's Practical Aesthetics Workshop for Acting back in the 80s. Actually some of the teachers are known names now here on Datalounge - Felicity Huffman, Clark Gregg, Mamet would come in and give masterclass workshops in front of the entire school. Students would naturally do scenes in front of him. He was tearing apart scenes all day when it was time to do mine. At the end he stopped and turned to everyone and said - Now that is acting... I could say that was a highlight of my "career." Out of 100 kids, only a handful are working actors today.

As for the asshole thing. He was tough. After he complimented me, I was over the moon and didn't much care that he lambasted the entire student body, basically calling them silly for going to college to learn how to act. He said if you were serious, you would be in LA working and learning the way. At 50 years old now, and knowing what I know, I can't say he was wrong.

I think a four year degree in acting is pretty useless, especially in such a youth-driven business. You need to get your ass to LA to audition, try to land an agent and attend independent acting classes as soon as you can.

r80 so you went to acting school at NYU when you were 10 years old? 👍🤡

Having said that R81, a huge percentage of NYU Graduate Acting students are working actors - some quite successful. Billy Crudup I believe had just graduated the year before I started undergrad. Sterling K. Brown was a student when I was there and I know him in passing. You can google it, there are tons more.

It's different today r83. Actors and singers get parts because of social media FFS.

Ok R84 name one major actor on TV or in films right now who got there because of their huge social media presence.

R74 Hamm is all over the place in stuff, mostly prestige streaming stuff. He got two Emmy nominations last year. His latest show got renewed for a second season.

John Slattery has a big movie coming out and he's starring in a series right now.

Elizabeth Moss just wrapped the Handmaid's Tale and she has a new Apple series in the works.

Kiernan Shipka is always working.

January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser and Christina Hendricks could all use a job...sadly, January Jones' character was on death's door when Mad Men ended so she could only play a ghost.

r85 most big successful actors didn't go to college, or dropped out.

R87 Uh huh.

I bet Moss is the only one out of the main cast who would refuse to return. She's the only one who didn't peak with Mad Men.

Hamm tried and failed to become a movie star and I doubt he's happy with his middling Apple show. He would probably do a Mad Men spin off if they offered him enough money. Same goes for Slattery and the other actors.

A Mad Men follow up doesn't really make sense. It was a show about advertising people in the 60s. That's why it was interesting.

Who gives a fuck about advertising people in the 80s?

Also: Matthew Weiner shot his wad. He was floundering those last couple of years anyway.

I loved Mad Men and don't really have any interest in a follow up. Who really wants to see fat, aging, Don Draper still being a shitheel in the 80s?

r88 most of them didn't

NYC in the 80s would be great to see. I could see Mad Men working with the characters who would still be alive at the time and some younger characters.

I would love to see a fat, aging Don Draper being a shitheel in the 80s.

Mad Men ended in 2015 when they were in 1970 so in real time they would be in 1980 right now.

"Crazy People" did 80s advertising pretty sharply.

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Evan Jonigkeit basically came out of nowhere to make his Broadway debut in HIGH starring Kathleen Turner as a nun who was a recovered drug addict working with young drug addicts. I can't remember why but in one of her confrontations with Evan's character, he stripped out of all his clothes. The play got terrible reviews and didn't even last a week. But he was great in the play, very memorable and not just for the nudity.

Actually, what he put Zosia through (and I assume many, many other women) is eerily similar to what Peggy puts that pretty actress through for the Beau Jolie lipstick radio spot on “Mad Men.”

And Weiner has a rep for doing that, especially to women. The actress who played Pete Campbell’s secretary, Julie McNiven, told a story without naming names about a very powerful show runner who treated her like dirt in the most gratuitous way possible — and it was quite clear whom she was referring to.

I’ve always wondered if Weiner put that scene in there with Peggy in the booth, reducing that actress to tears, as a sort of “tell” about himself.

R74 Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Moss are doing a shit ton, wtf are you on about?

R97 I HATED Peggy for that. So much so I never truly warmed up to her until like Season 4. She was insuffrable at first, smug and emulating the worse traits of the men in the office. She grew into her job and mellowed thank god.

Ugh so done with the 80s. The 70s were better anyway.

[quote] Zosia Mamet has talent.

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[quote]I dont think ZM is anything special talent wise BUT the camera likes her.

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If a “new” Mad Man aired right now, taking place the same number of years before the season premiere, it would run from 1978 to 1988. Wow.

A reboot should be 100% set in the advertising business, cut the personal episodes

Who gives a fuck about advertising people in the 80s?

R90 - We did.

Like I said, advertising in the 20's, when it first boomed and became a serious industry, seems much more fun.

R27 Well if Daddy says so 🙄

I didn't read the article because I don't care...but the excerpt about the hair chopping was well written and I enjoyed it. Zosia is a decent writer (about herself), anyway.

I think you get paid extra if your hair is cut as a part of a role.

I guess they didn’t want to fork out for a wig for minor characters.

She was playing a masc dyke in the 60s, did she really not think they’d want to cut her hair. Dumb bitch

R87 please pick on argument and stick to it.

Either most actors get hired because of their social media OR most actors didn’t go to college or dropped out. Next will be - most actors have nine toes.

Who says a masc 1960s dyke can't have shoulder length hair, r109? I think it was blindingly obvious that her character was supposed to be a lesbian.

They don't need to give someone a short haircut and a strap-on in order to make them look like a lesbian. Most people are capable of picking up on cues.

I loved Vincent K. because he was one of those kid actors who acted to support his family and hated them for it. In that stupid show “Angel”, he was achingly gorgeous, and he got to fuck Charisma Carpenter, who was pregnant at the time and was playing his sort of step-mother-figure, It was great.

By the time he played Pete Campbell, he was no longer a teen dream, but he was wonderful.

I always hated Weiner because he seemed to be the blimpy, ugly boy who somehow became a blimpy TV power boy & I knew he wielded his power in sick ways.

Joan’s tits were ridiculous. How could anyone - man, woman, straight,bi, both, neither, -concentrate on work with those huge projectiles aiming right at you?

Then there was Ben Feldman, who was so cute. Weiner probably got rid of him because he was a Jewish guy who was handsome, unlike Blimpy.

The blonde string bean of a copy writer or sales guy - the one who had a not so secret desire to write…..something….science fiction? ….he popped up in a few shows years later. He was a “dreamy” WWI doughboy who comes across a love starved Irish house frau in some PBS thing or maybe he played Godzilla…..I forget.

I was.very disappointed to find out John Hamm was a psychopath. I bought the whole sad-boye- horrible childhood- schtick.

And then there’s Bob.

This is my oral report on the television show “Mad Men and some of the notable actors and characters they portrayed

Matthew Weiner is awful. I'll still go out of my way to ignore Zosia Mamet. Thanks for the warning she'll be out promoting her book

I confuse her with Zoe Kazan.

And this year's Insufferable Millennial Award goes to.....Miss Zosia Mamet!!!!

I'm not interested in the personal lives of most famous people so I still appreciate how very talented Matt Weiner was in creating and writing Mad Men. Well-written, well-directed, well-acted iconic television. (He shouldn't have yelled at the actress, but It would be interesting to see just how bad the acting was in that scene before the final take.)

(On second thought, I realize his behavior on the set isn't his personal life (as I described it above). I guess descriptions of his behavior (that I've only read here) still don't bother me all that much because of the extreme pressure involved in film and television production and how it requires a calm temperament that some creative people don't have. I wasn't meaning to excuse any kind of actual abuse, if there was any.)

Wow...Don't know why I put that paragraph in parenthesis. I need an edit button...

R55 The sexual harassment allegation was from a writer that he hated having to share an Emmy with.

The ended up putting it in a little low ponytail and you can see the razor cuts. They could've accomplished the same thing with a low bun

She sho is ugly.

Susan Sontag was a massive 1960s dyke with long hair.

I don’t follow a lot of actors or shows, not like most of you guys do. I barely know who she is and I had to dig through the thread to figure out what show she was talking about. And then I remembered her in that flight attendant show and I really liked her. Doesn’t she typically play intelligent, but kind of street smart, snarky, and wise cracking types of characters? Anyway, she was really cool in that show and I liked her a lot. I don’t care who her dad is. From reading that little piece of her essay, it doesn’t seem like she got much work through her name. She mentions having to try out for the role and how surprised and lucky she was to get it. That doesn’t sound like a “Nepo baby“ to me. I think some of you bitches are over using that term.

[quote] Actually, what he put Zosia through (and I assume many, many other women) is eerily similar to what Peggy puts that pretty actress through for the Beau Jolie lipstick radio spot on “Mad Men.”

The add , R97, was not for Belle Jolie but for that exercise/masturbation device for women called the Relax-a-Cizor.

She was terrible on "Girls", something of a running sight gag with odd outfits followed by shrieking hysterics, playing the "needy friend". I was surprised when I saw her in other shows where she seemed to be a fairly competent actress.

You’re an ignorant slut R123

R115 both New York nepo baby millenial hipster types. I like Zoe, but then again, Elia Kazan is probably my favorite classic movie director.

R112 skinny blond straight guy was Ken Cosgrove and he was accounts, not copywriter. Ended up one of the most likeable characters on the show. Loved Ken.

R123-There are so many Mamets in the entertainment industry, no one would ever even consider her a nepo baby. Wake the fuck up.

R129 she is a certified nepo baby, dummy.

Who & Who?

Mamet has written and ghost written many screenplays. He is definitely connected to all types of writers and show runners. Matthew Weiner probably got a perverse thrill out of casting her - like Nicholas Cage marrying Lisa Marie. And there is a lot of hate for Mamet too. So maybe he got a perverse thrill out of torturing her. But he absolutely knew who her father was when he cast her.

R128 Did you stop watching after season 5? Ken's character became very bitter when he felt he had to give up his writing to continue working for the firm. It was sort of one of the tragic character arcs by the final few episodes.

In flight attendant, she played an attorney, and there was not a moment she was on screen that I believed she was any sort of professional.

R130-It's called sarcasm, asshole.

Dummy at R82, the school was founded in the 80s, like I said. The founders were my teachers. I attended in 1995, I was 20 years old.