Blind Item #5
This show creator of a hit cable show admitted that he let his peen get the best of him when he cast this B- list mostly movie actress in a role for which she was not suited. She said she would sleep with him if she got the part and he really wanted to, she got the part and was hated. She slept with a cast member to get him to stick up for her, but he just blew her off when she tried to get him on her side and keep her on the show.
Obviously this is Kathy Bates on AHS - that hussy! :)
ReplyDeleteMatthew Weiner / Jessica Pare / Hammaconda
ReplyDeleteYup
DeleteDammit, VIP!
DeleteI don't know. I'm not a huge fan of Megan on Mad Men, but I don't blame the actress. I think she does well enough. It's the character that's a child bride cipher. Not saying this couldn't be true, but I don't think the actress is that bad. I actually liked her french song.
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ReplyDeleteApatow girls shiri appleby?
ReplyDeleteI believe that Jessica Pare slept with Weiner to get the part (we already had a blind about that), but I don't think everyone hates her; she's supposed to be good friends with JJ in real life.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Megan on Mad Men.
ReplyDeleteI second Pare
ReplyDeleteAaron sorkin/Olivia munn/newsroom.
ReplyDeleteI like Boozie's guess.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Weiner gay??!
ReplyDeleteNewsroom, Olivia Munn. She is a really terrible actress.
ReplyDeleteI think Pare is really good as Megan... not ill suited at all.
ReplyDeleteMunn has been reliably wonderful on The Newsroom. I was completely unsold on her as an actress before that show, but she completely sold me.
ReplyDeleteSo, no, not Olivia Munn.
I also love Megan! The Munn guess is a good one but she has been on TV a lot, AOTS and The Daily show, and she did a sitcom a year or two ago...
ReplyDeleteNothing else explains Weiner's infatuation with Megan Draper at the expense of more interesting characters (Joan, Ginsberg, Stan, on and on).
ReplyDeleteI was hoping they would get rid of Megan now I know why she gets so much screen time and is married to my fantasy husband on the show.
DeleteI am not an Olivia Munn fan and I have to admit, she's really good on The Newsroom. I cannot see Sloan going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteThis blind reads as an actress on her way out of the show or is already out.
Depending on where MM goes with Megan, this could be Jessica Pare. Though I think she's done a good job with the part.
Agree with JAS - Munn has gotten a lot better on The Newsroom. Now it's Alison Pill who annoys me.
ReplyDeleteSeeing as how Alan Ball is gay it's not anyone from True Blood.
Yeah Minn is one of the featured people on that show. Shes terrible and her blotchy face looks really bad but shes staying.
ReplyDeleteIdk I didn't think the blind said she was going anywhere. I actually don't mind munn on the show but she feels awkwardly cast and we all know how sorkin is. It didn't say she was bad in the role just Ill cast. I'm sticking w munn.
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ReplyDeleteevan rachel wood on true blood
ReplyDeleteI think Matthew Weiner is gay......
ReplyDeleteWeiner has slept with a woman at least once before. The kid who plays Glen is his son.
ReplyDeleteThis would certainly explain so much about why she went from being a nanny to one of the featured cast members within a couple of episodes.
pare was in movies before?
ReplyDeleteJeez VIP, I'm glad I was at home and not at work when I clicked on that link. A warning would have been nice.
ReplyDeleteYou guys didn't know that's how Pare got that bigger part? Yeah, she is/was Weiner's GF. Explains the un-sexy 'zooby-zoo-dance' atrocity that EVERYONE CRINGED over except dipshit Weiner.....Love is blind to her talentless-ness.
ReplyDeleteI hope this blind is them, so Megan is DEFINITELY gone next season.
Libby: that dance was truly cringeworthy. Seriously.
DeleteEwww at the thought of having to make sexy times with Aaron Sorkin. Vomit in my mouth.
ReplyDeletePare was in Lost and Delirious and the classic Hot Tub Time Machine, among other movies.
ReplyDeleteits that buck-toothed biatch Jessica Pare
ReplyDeleteRuby: buck toothed ninny. She grinds my gears
DeleteI'd go with Pare, but the "mostly movies" thing doesn't quite fit. Before being cast as Megan, Pare had done a lot of work in both TV and movies, including a second-lead in "Jack & Bobby". Throughout season 4 of MM, I kinda suspected something was going to happen with her because she had a far bigger resume than the actors who are usually cast as receptionists. (Same thing last season with James Wolk as Bob Benson.) She might have slept with someone to get the part, but the part was always intended to be much bigger -- I suspect it wasn't a case of her dropping trou after filming was underway.
ReplyDeleteAnd for the record, I say this as someone who isn't exceptionally fond of Pare or Megan but likes them well enough. I'm just weary of the disproportionate pileon that they get from Mad Men fans who won't rest until someone takes a knife and chops her into itty bitty pieces. I guess I feel the need to defend all the female characters that fans loathe. (I've never even watched Breaking Bad, but I want to take up arms on Skyler's behalf. *g*)
Weiner is a fudgepacking cocksucker. This is Janusry Jones morons
ReplyDeleteMassive G: homophobic much? Are you the type of homophobe who lurks around beat toilets and glory holes?
DeleteMatthew Weiner is in fact straight.
ReplyDeleteLibby, don't remind us that 'next season' is 'last season' :(
ReplyDeleteThing is, I wouldn't hate Megan/Pare if her screen time weren't so wildly disproportionate to other characters with more backstory. I am still pissed that Weiner said something to the effect of it being obvious Joan won Avon when the story line was dropped after "A Tale of Two Cities." No asshole, it wasn't obvious, which is why so many people were clamoring for a follow-up about it and, incidentally, hoping that Megan would be killed at the end of the season.
Sorry, #MadMenNerd.
@Dewie, fellow Mad Men nerd and I agree with you 100%. The Avon storyline was as big as Pete and Detroit, but instead we had to watch The Trials and Tribulations of Megan Draper, Actress and Wronged Wife.
ReplyDeleteI think this might be the True Blood fiasco with Evan Rachel Wood and Alexander Skarsgaard.(sp)??
ReplyDeleteI was hoping for Sasha Grey, except 1) she's not B-, I think, and 2) how could she not be suited for a role in which she played herself?
ReplyDeleteDavid Chase, Aida Tuturro, Paully Walnuts
ReplyDelete@holiday in Cambodia: Sasha's performance was almost az wooden as I was, so she played herself pretty well. I hope she comes back to porn if she ever gets knocked up. She would be HOT pregnant.
Sasha is my all time fave porn whore. Here is the top 5
Sasha Grey
Gauge
Taylor Rain
Maryanne
Stoya, for now. 5th spot changes sometimes.
Emmy Rossum.
ReplyDeleteI think Jessica Pare is perfect for the role of Megan. She reminds me of '60's icon Jane Birkin. It could be her, though.
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