Women are treated like sex objects in dumbo comedies aimed at infantile men. This is nothing new. Aside from the Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips here or Paul Feig there, for the most part these are films made from the point of men who think about women no other way. They’re either nurturing (or blasting) mother types or they’re fuckable or not fuckable. Intelligence in writing and creating female characters was abandoned once Hollywood realized what a cash cow adolescent boys had become. The age rage for adolescent mentality kept stretching until boys who were once teens became boys in their 30s and then boys in their 40s. Now, most R-rated comedy films are one big soup of fart, poopie and dick jokes. If American men don’t want to grow up who are we to complain. That just makes it easier for we bull-busting “too old” females to take over the world. Rose McGowan broke the golden rule of never speaking out – not about sexual power plays, not about pay inequality, and certainly not about something like the following.
McGowan, who has become a filmmaker and whose short film “Dawn” can be seen for free on YouTube, posted this tweet about a casting call for an Adam Sandler comedy:
casting note that came w/script I got today. For real. name of male star rhymes with Madam Panhandler hahahaha I die pic.twitter.com/lCWGTV537t
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) June 18, 2015
She then tweeted this:
I just got fired by my wussy acting agent because I spoke up about the bullshit in Hollywood. Hahaha. #douchebags #awesome #BRINGIT
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) June 25, 2015
And finally this:
The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind. #FREEDOM
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) June 25, 2015
I personally think she’s far better off to be rid of an agent who would fire her over such a thing. We get it that actresses need to work and are thus encouraged to keep all of this eye-rolling mishegoss under wraps. But you know, stupid people kinda deserve to be called out for their stupidity. Any actress getting that note would no doubt roll her eyes. She knows what they’re saying: you’re a piece of meat, show us the goods. We want to see your tits and your ass and your thighs.
Either way, AwardsDaily offers a crisp salute to Ms. McGowan for being strong enough to stand up to and withstand the powers that be. Her agent and others should also be on notice. The times, they are a-changing.
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And let’s be honest – Apatow and Feig aren’t exactly Lubitsch or Wilder. Ooh, what a low bar.
no idea why she’d get fired for this. does the segment of the note she tweeted not seem like something that’s been required/asked for wanted from females in sandler’s film before.
it’s not like she gave away some twist of the story or even commented on script quality.
so a tweet with these details is bad enough to get her agent to drop her.lame…
i hope some people drop that agent.
but the important thing is that certain segments of “the guys” will think this is cool.and want to high five him and think he did the right thing.ha ha…
seriously if someone did a collection of “icky sexist” script notes.i think we’d have a best seller on our hands. or how about a documentary at cannes ??? people just wouldn’t shut up ! 🙂
She was right to connect the wardrobe note and the male lead. She may not be A-list, but she’s known well enough not to take this shit. Plus, she’s got to be better off without that agent.
Her tweet was not nearly as offensive as what we’ve heard coming off the set of Sandler’s latest waste of time. “Man-child” doesn’t begin to cover it – sexist and bigot do. All you have to do is a little search and find out what he named the female Native American characters in his film. It does not bear repeating here.
Let’s just be clear that they are only getting away with dropping her because she isn’t on the A-list. It’s really shitty of the industry. If she was Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, or Scarlet Johansson and tweeted that she wouldn’t have been dropped. It would be considered a none issue. It was an innocent tweet about her experience and she got unfairly chastised because she doesn’t have “power” in the business! I am glad she is being transparent about.
Also good for her for name dropping who’s movie it is. It’s like if a woman’s boss makes a sexist joke and you tell her she shouldn’t discuss the company that it happened it.
Go Rose!
Adam Sandler movies are terrible. Anything that sheds more light on that fact is good to me.
did she have to bring in Adam Sandler’s name in the mix?
I took that as residual flak Adam Sandler deserves for the disgusting way he disrespects Native American characters and Native American actors on the set of his latest stupid-fest. Because that was another recent incident that came to light because those actors were not afraid to speak out and expose it.
I’ll retract. When I hear or see “bigot” my mind automatically thinks “racist” and only that when the word covers far more meaning.
Because somebody acts like a man-child does not make them a bigot, which is a pretty big word to be throwing around. Maybe it depends on what sort of bigot they are being. I haven’t seen any of those except Mr. Deeds (utter shit) and 50 First Dates (charming movie). Alexander Payne wrote I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. I suppose he’s a bigot too? A woman co-wrote Blended. Where does the buck stop?
This isn’t me complaining but did she have to bring in Adam Sandler’s name in the mix?
Because Mr. Deeds, 50 First Dates, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Grown Ups, Just Go with It, Jack and Jill, Grown Ups 2, Blended, The Cobbler, The Ridiculous 6. The guy’s a fucking bigot.
I agree it’s sexist and she was right to show the world what sort of look she’s expected to show up in. This isn’t me complaining but did she have to bring in Adam Sandler’s name in the mix? It’s a shitty reason but I guarantee that’s why she got fired. Let’s say I’m a actor in a movie and I have zero say in casting or wardrobe, Sandler probably did, and an actress tweets, “I got sexist notes from a casting agent on this movie starring a guy who’s name rhymes with Meve Stane.” Well now my name is tarnished and people will label me a sexist as well. I’m on her side overall but name dropping isn’t the best form of diplomacy.
Unless the role is for a busty porn star or stripper I don’t think it matters what kind of bra an actress wears to an audition. Having that in the notes is shitty.
When I read her initial tweet, I thought that it should piss off a lot of people. I did not expect the people representing her best interests from sacking her.
And kudos to her for making this public.