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On 4/13/2024 3:33 AM, trotsky wrote:
> 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.
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