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On 4/13/2024 3:36 PM, trotsky wrote:
> On 4/13/24 11:05 AM, moviePig wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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