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On 4/12/24 9:34 AM, FPP wrote:
> On 4/11/24 6:34 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 4/11/2024 3:38 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> It didn’t bother Thomas Mooneyham that he saw Sylvester Stallone 
>>>> glancing more
>>> than once at him or how he was asked to leave a bar scene so he could be
>>> replaced with a younger cowboy and a "good-looking cowgirl".
>>>>
>>>> What upset the 53-year-old Tennessee man who drove four hours on 
>>>> April 4 to
>>> serve as an extra on the Paramount+ series TULSA KING was learning 
>>> how one
>>> of
>>> the background actors was allegedly described by Stallone as a "tub of
>>> lard"
>>> and "fat guy with a cane". He never heard Stallone or the director
>>> utter
>>> disparaging words about background actors that day but he's convinced 
>>> some
>>> of
>>> those comments were directed at him personally after he read about 
>>> them on
>>> a
>>> private Facebook page for BG actors.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So there’s no evidence that any of this happened at all, it’s just a 
>>> rumor
>>> on the Facebook.
>>>
>>>
>>>> "I was seated at a table with another gentleman, like we were 
>>>> listening to the
>>> band," recalls Mooneyham, who tells Deadline that he uses a cane 
>>> because of
>>> bone-on bone pain in his knee. "Stallone's table with the other main
>>> characters was diagonal from ours, about 12 feet away. I did notice 
>>> that he
>>> looked at me a time or two
>>>
>>> Gasp!
>>>
>>>
>>> and he talked with, I guess, the director and
>>> laughed with him and all. But I didn't put anything together. Then we 
>>> were
>>> moved from the scene and replaced with the younger cowboy and a good
>>> looking
>>> cowgirl. Now does that bother me? Not in the least. What bothers me
>>> is that
>>> somebody overheard him and the director. It ain't even the part that 
>>> I am
>>> fat.
>>>
>>> Or ain’t speak proper English
>>>
>>>
>>> I wasn't the only big one that was there. But I do feel like I was 
>>> singled
>>> out
>>> because they said 'old tub of lard with the cane'. I was the only one 
>>> there
>>> with the cane."
>>>>
>>>> Mooneyham is speaking out about his 12-hour day on the Atlanta set 
>>>> of the
>>> series that led to the resignation of Rose Locke Casting, a local 
>>> company
>>> hired to find background actors for Season 2 of the Stallone series.
>>> Deadline
>>> first broke the story on Monday; reps for the Paramount+ show and 
>>> Stallone
>>> have yet to comment.
>>>>
>>>> Locke told her clients that she left the series because of disparaging
>>> language allegedly used by Stallone to describe the extras--
>>>
>>> That she had miscast
>>>
>>>
>>> an accusation
>>> that director Craig Zisk denied to TMZ after Deadline broke the 
>>> story. Zisk
>>> told the outlet that Locke failed to do her job by not recruiting 
>>> extras in
>>> the 20s and 30s range for a scene involving a hip bar.
>>>>
>>>> A source close to the show told Deadline Wednesday that producers were
>>> concerned about matching scenes from last season, which led to 
>>> differences
>>> of
>>> opinion over casting. Producers apparently have talked to the cast 
>>> and crew
>>> about the situation and emphasized their commitment to fostering an
>>> inclusive
>>> work environment.
>>>>
>>>> Mooneyham says the set he was working on that day was the 
>>>> Bred-2-Buck Bar, a
>>> fictitious Tulsa saloon that's owned by Stallone's character Dwight
>>> Manfredi
>>> in the series. "That's not a young hipster bar that other people
>>> are trying to
>>> make it out to be," he said. "That is just an old roughneck cowboy 
>>> country
>>> bar. And the name of the bar, here's my point, is Bred-2-Buck. Tell 
>>> me how
>>> many old bronco-riding cowboys who are old and who are not hobbled or
>>> crippled? How would a gentleman with a cane not fit into that? But 
>>> the main
>>> thing is my cane was not even visible in the scene. I had it hidden 
>>> behind
>>> my
>>> body."
>>>>
>>>
>>> Which was it difficult as his body is three times the diameter it 
>>> should be
>>>
>>>
>>>> Before Mooneyham came to work that day, he considered it a dream gig 
>>>> because
>>> TULSA KING is a series that he and his son watch together. A tax 
>>> specialist
>>> by
>>> day for H&R Block, Mooneyham has been working for two years as an 
>>> extra and
>>> has already booked several films and TV shows, including a two-day 
>>> gig on
>>> the
>>> upcoming film CIVIL WAR.
>>>>
>>>> "When I worked on CIVIL WAR two years ago, I weighed 390 pounds. I 
>>>> could
>>> barely walk," recalls Mooneyham, who appears briefly in the movie's
>>> official
>>> trailer. "I had to use a mobility scooter but not a one of 'em on
>>> set said
>>> anything about it to me or made a fuss about it. The producers went 
>>> out of
>>> the
>>> way to help me get my scooter loaded into the van."
>>>>
>>>> He says his experience on TULSA KING was a far cry from what his 
>>>> experienced
>>> on the motion picture. "I don't understand. I know there was all this 
>>> talk
>>> about older folks. Older, too old. How does he justify that we are 
>>> too old
>>> when he’s 20-some years older than we are? I'm 53 years old. Stallone is
>>> 77.
>>> How the hell am I too old?"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Too old, too stupid, too fat
>>>
>>>
>>>> "I've experienced nothing like this before," says Mooneyham, who 
>>>> adds he
>>> doesn’t fault the casting director. He also has no plans to quit doing
>>> background work.
>>>>
>>>> "Some people say I'm thin-skinned.
>>>
>>> Of course, he’s thin skinned. His skin is stretched out to cover an area
>>> three times larger than it was ever intended to.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> People think that I'm making a fuss. I
>>> never made a fuss until Rose contacted me about it,"
>>>
>>>
>>> And now you’re making a fuss. Which is why people think you’re making a
>>> fuss.
>>>
>>>
>>> says Mooneyham. "My
>>> feelings got hurt a little. But you know what? I'm more pissed than 
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