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Subject: Re: Cating Agency Quits TULSA KING Over Stallone's Mocking of Extras
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:34:24 -0400
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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 hurt.
>> And
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