“Talk show appearances are mostly staged. Very little is spontaneous anymore when it comes to celebrity appearances in public. Those candid interviews? Nah. Mostly a put-on and *at least* rehearsed.”

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"Also, they only use female horses. Stallions can get turned on quickly, and nothing ruins a scene faster than a flopping horse dick."

"I also find it so funny when a movie or show has what are supposed to be gross, dirty sewer rats, and it’s clearly well-bred, fancy rats with beautiful, colored fur that is definitely not found in the wild phenotype!"

This is IMDb trivia, so we can't be certain it's true, but for the car scenes, trainers reportedly put the dog's favorite toys in the car so it would try to get in. Picture your doggo trying to get their favorite ball, and ignore the gore on the dog's face, and you'll see the car scenes are really not that scary. There is also apparently a part where you can see the dog's tail wagging around 54 minutes.

"Every male actor who gains 30 lbs. of pure lean muscle mass in four months for a role isn't just eating 'chicken, broccoli, and rice.' They're on massive stacks of TRT, human growth hormone, and anabolic steroids with top-tier Hollywood doctors monitoring their bloodwork. Everyone in the fitness and film industry knows it, but they have to keep up the natural myth for marketing."

"I'm in the fitness world, and it's wild how many people outside of the industry think action stars got huge just by working out. They put in the work, but unless you're a genetic freak, 99% of people can't get that big and that vascular in a short time period, even with world-class trainers and nutritionists.

Also, most people have to be consistently dehydrated if they're shooting scenes where their bodies are the main focus (like Baywatch), and their abs need to pop. It's not healthy nor sustainable."

"Former 'story producer' here. My job was writing scripts. And the PAs pushed booze. So yes. Correct."

"I did a lot of improv and sketch comedy in Hollywood in the late '90s and aughts. When I was starting out, I got the 'never be in a room alone with Harvey Weinstein, no matter what he promises you' talk from other women in the group, and I passed it on to others as they came through. We clued men in, too, but it was especially important for the younger women.

The odds of any of us being in that situation were slim, but Harvey Weinstein was so notorious for assaulting women that everyone made sure everyone else knew, just in case."

"Press tour interviews are the actor's best performances. I can guarantee this from personal experience."

"Almost every contract nowadays has a non-disparagement clause. Beyond that, no one would hire an actor who talks shit about a movie before it comes out."

"I would just modify that to say they are ONLY talking about how much fun filming was, because I don't think it's uncommon for actors to mention enjoying the filming even when it's a really good movie. It's really only a sign of a problem when they're avoiding questions about things like the script or if they've seen the finished product and keep circling back to 'I just loved working with so-and-so!'"

"My friend who had a few small parts in movies told me the actors you see that seem to be in everything are the ones who are known to show up on time, know their lines, follow directions, and don't cause conflict on the set."

"She was engaged to Kiefer Sutherland, whom she met when they were filming Flatliners in 1991.

Days before their huge Hollywood wedding, she called off the wedding and took off to Ireland with Kiefer's' Lost Boys buddy Jason Patric."

"Yesterday I learned she wore a T-shirt with 'A Low Vera' written on it to publicly mock the wife of the man she was seeing (and later married), because his wife — Vera — was taking too long to sign the divorce papers. Nasty and a very dumb pun."

Editor's note: Sutherland later said the decision to cancel their wedding was mutual, soon after being canceled, if not on the day itself, saying, "There was a mutual appreciation for the fact that it didn’t happen."

"The big nightmare, security-wise, was the women. He had warned me ahead of time in our briefing, but it was wild. Women coming up with 'We were married last year, he knows this' and 'He wants me to talk to him.' It was an unending flow of batshit. I felt bad for him.

He was doing a book signing for a children's book he wrote on fly fishing. At one point, he saw how long the line was and how many kids were in the line. So he got out from behind the table and went up to each and every kid in line, one after the other, to talk to them and sign their books. When his manager tried to corral him, he told the manager, 'Don't interrupt me when I'm talking to kids.'

"My friends and I met him on the street in NYC many years ago. They saw him first, and I was like 'be cool, be cool' — but of course they weren't! He was SO nice to all of us, asked us where we were from, etc. He asked us our names and invited us to see his play that night! We showed up, and yep, he had reserved four tickets for us! He used my name since it was the easiest to remember. It was a show with him and John Ritter. Made me a fan for life!"

"Guy Fieri is legit. He goes to areas affected by natural disasters and serves first responders and displaced people breakfast."

2. Everyone pirates. One guy in the office knows a guy who has a screener of the next hit movie, say a rough cut of Avengers: Doomsday, and they're expected to bring that screener to the office for ripping and duplication. I used to run one office's rip-and-burn tower.

3. Cocaine is everywhere. If you get your work done, nobody really cares. It's only when you start to party foul that people get annoyed. And they aren't going to offer help.

4. Those diversity fellowships are almost all for show. They usually hire people who were working as writers' assistants in the first place. It's usually just hiring a BIPOC with a Rolodex. BIPOC with great work get overlooked for lesser writers with contacts, and it's called progressive. I hated it.

5. Most workers in Hollywood are just blue-collar laborers. They're teamsters and IBEW and caterers and grips and PAs. These folks are usually middle-class, not connected to celebrities any more than you're connected to the brass at a big company you worked for. Work-a-day folks who just make a decent and relatively plain living. Mostly just regular folks.

6. Hollywood is afraid to offend because there is no guaranteed next job. It's not liberal because it's principled; it's liberal because nobody knows who their next investor or producer might be. They don't want to tweet their way out of the next Best Picture."

"This is something I've long thought needs to be properly addressed. I've worked on many talk shows and live reality competition shows, and the music is always extremely loud and borderline dangerous for people who don't already have hearing loss."

"Basically, everyone who's gone near music does. You only start caring about hearing protection once you've noticed some amount of tinnitus, as a rule."

"If I remember correctly, Robbie Williams used Jane Seymour’s huge estate for his Cribs episode. I don’t think much of what was onscreen was actually his stuff."

"This is known. They make their money touring, not record sales."

"*Made. Touring is very difficult nowadays as well; look into the theatrics that are essentially required for any arena tour. Incredibly expensive stuff."

"Also, bit actors, like that guy that says 'Hey, that's Spider-Man!' for a single two-second scene as he swings by? Some guy that went to acting school and picks up small parts because that's all they can get. So, they made it a career to pick up as many of those one-line scenes as they can to make a good annual income. It's a living they've accepted.

It's a step up from extra, where, because they have a line, they get union membership and the benefits that come with it."

"A buddy of mine majored in fine arts in a decent program. The day before graduation, one of his professors told them, 'Congratulations, now you're competing with the Big Boys. Among them is me.'

He didn't mean it to be condescending or squash anyone's ambition, just to be realistic about others who've been doing it longer, have more connections, and the funds to crush you if desired.

And that pretty much sums up the stagnation in the world today, doesn't it?"

"Rupert Everett said years ago he regretted coming out and that it hurt his career."

"People act like it's not a big deal now, but it 100% still is."

"The music marketing company I work for made signs for MTV's TRL for bands and musicians and hired 'fans' to hold them."

"Fun Fact: They stopped using 'Alan Smithee' after the Alan Smithee movie came out. [Editor's note: The movie was a comedy about a director — legitimately named Alan Smithee — who wanted his name off a project.] The movie was so bad that, ironically, the director Arthur Hiller went by Alan Smithee. Post-internet, it's pretty pointless to change a director's name."

"Celebrities, waiters, your next Hinge date...LA is just Herpesville."

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