Posted on 09/09/2009 8:13:09 AM PDT by Maelstorm
If an actor is not comfortable with what he/she is being asked to do or say and cannot work it out with the director/producers/writers, his/her only choices are to either compromise and do what was asked, or be willing to be fired.
I don't think acting is a particularly good profession for a Christian, anyway. There are, of course, exceptions, but generally, acting does not lead to happy and holy lives.
About 50 years ago, A.W. Tozer wrote the following about acting, which I find to be very insightful.
http://www.biblebb.com/files/tozermovie.htm
“It is not uncommon to find around the theater human flotsam and jetsam washed up by the years, men and women who have played false parts so long that the power to be sincere has forever gone from them. They are doomed to everlasting duplicity. Every act of their lives is faked, every smile is false, every tone of their voice artificial. The curse does not come causeless. It is not by chance that the actor's profession has been notoriously dissolute. Hollywood and Broadway are two sources of corruption which may yet turn America into a Sodom and lay her glory in the dust.
The profession of acting did not originate with the Hebrews. It is not a part of the divine pattern. The Bible mentions it, but never approves it. Drama, as it has come down to us, had its rise in Greece. It was originally a part of the worship of the god Dionysus and was carried on with drunken revelry.”
The so called Hollywood blacklist of communists was a lie. They still got work. They now celebrate the pseudonyms they worked under.
The removal of the names was to prevent the ticket buying public from boycotting studios and films. The staff knew who they were working with.
But the Hollywood blacklist of conservatives means you’ll never work in this town again. Pinklisted.
A lot depends on how her contract reads. I have a feeling she does not have the contractual right to refuse to do certain lines or to demand changes in the script. If I'm right, she likely doesn't have any legal standing.
Like you, I admire her stance. But her legal rights in this situation depend on her contract.
OK she is on a SOAP Opera. WHAT KIND OF F*CKED UP PEOPLE are on and watch these things? Answer me that?
“If she was gay, there would nonstop coverage of this discriminatory, intolerant act.”
And they would be wrong too.
If you want to be WORKING actor, you can’t whine about the script - there are plenty of bartenders willing to step in.
Otherwise produce your own soap.
Good point. Soap operas are full of objectionable material that have nothing to do with homosexuality. Any actress signing on to a soap knows what she is getting into.
I have to disagree with most of you on this. If Christians with morals abandon every field or job, then who’s left to withstand this tide of evil in our society?
Christians don’t have to compromise their beliefs. We shouldn’t have to abandon every area of society and allow it to further slide down the sewer.
You would think her Christian beliefs would have given her pause beforing signing on to do a Soap in the first place.
Apparently she’s fine being on a show that promotes pre-marital sex, adulturous sex, etc. You know, as long as her character doesn’t have to do it.
And just now, after 14 years, she’s finally upset about the direction of the show?? Come on....
“I have to disagree with most of you on this. If Christians with morals abandon every field or job, then who’s left to withstand this tide of evil in our society?”
Christian viewers have more control than this actress. If “Christians” or any other moral person is so disgusted by Hollywood or soaps - stop watching. These shows exist because people watch them, not because actors compromise their beliefs.
Hollywood loves to trot out the “witch hunts” and make it sound as if they suffered. It seems to me that the ones who suffered were those who cooperated with the government. But that’s just my opinion - I wasn’t there, didn’t live through it, don’t know.
What are the pseudonyms they worked under? Do you mean the actos themselves just took pseudonyms and passed themselves off as different people?
I wonder how much longer Hollywood and the entire acting community can exist as is. Their hypocrisy is astonishing and in difficult financial times, the rest of the country is bound to notice the lavish lifestyles and self-indulgence. But maybe not.
She has to sue, just like Carrie Prejean is doing.
She’s a great actress, and a pivotal character on the show. She is right about Carlotta’s character. Carlotta would betray her obvious Catholicism by going along with the plot line.
Mauceri definitely has a case for religious discrimination.
The other actors who have been on the show for 14 years should join in a boycott.
The show has several openly gay characters now, and there are regular scenes of men embracing, kissing, and undressing with each other. One of the gay guys is a cop, who is also sleeping with a woman. I guess soap opera people don’t get AIDS or STDs.
This is daytime TV!
If she was "standing up for her character" then this is about "creative differences," not religious discrimination.
Many actors are asked to play characters who do things the actor or actress would not dream of doing. Otherwise, no one would play the killer in a mystery, no one would play Hitler in WW II movies, no would play Stalin. She's paid to follow the scripts provided. If she doesn't want to do that, she should find a different acting job where she can agree, or she should change careers.
I wonder if an actor would have been fired for speaking up about a non-religious issue in the same way.
For speaking up, probably not. For refusing to play the part after she lost the argument, yes. Her employers may be misguided, stupid, artistically wrong, have a despicable agenda, etc. - but she signed a contract and can't expect to be retained if she refuses to adhere to the contract.
I know there is religious discrimination, but this isn't it.
I read it 3 or 4 times, too, Shadow...thinking maybe they just omitted the 'NOT'...
Largely the blacklist was screenwriters. People who put the words and messages into the mouths of the actors and actresses.
And today’s Hollywood Reds sat on their hands when Elia Kazan got a lifetime achievement award because “he talked”.
Dalton Trumbo for example was among the US Communists who protested the US siding with England against Nazi Germany because the Reds were A-OK with Fascism until Hitler betrayed their beloved Stalin.
It’s all about where your loyalties lie.
“Christians don’t have to compromise their beliefs. We shouldn’t have to abandon every area of society and allow it to further slide down the sewer.”
I completely agree. But in this case the soap opera fired her, so she didn’t have a choice. She must have known what she was risking but she took a stand anyway. We don’t know who was watching that and how her actions impacted others. It might have been a very powerful witness on her part.
Look, THEY are in control. We all experience it in our daily lives. Social connections, our livelihoods, these can all easily be irreparably damaged by saying a single wrong word.
Even an individual like this actress must hide her non-conforming hypothetical ideas. We are well into the dark times, we just don’t know it yet.
Wait a minute...Mauceri has built this character line by line, day by day for fourteen years.
These Hispanic characters were introduced to draw that population demographic to the show.
Mauceri excelled in being the “wise Latina woman” of great moral depth and compassion.
The character would not be the same without the actress.
Mauceri , IMO, has a great investment in the success of the program. And the producers owe her a debt of loyalty for expanding the popularity of the show.
ABC will lose even more fans now than they did when the “in-your-face” Gay Cops Gone Wild plot began.
Mauceri, 59, a devout Christian
Well then, she should probably not have taken a job on an MSM soap opera. There has to be something in the story line that offends traditional Christian beliefs at least once every other day.
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