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Bryan Singer going on damage control over upcoming Esquire article on him
- Thread starter WrenchNinja
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Sacha...Baron Cohen?
His take sounded far more interesting but ultimately he has nothing to do with the film now.
Why is May still doing the circuit slagging him off now pre-release?
And Gus Van Sant
Lee Daniels
Tom Ford
Rob Marshall
Bill Condon
Rolland Emmerich
And that's just a few off the top of my head
He was asked about his involvement and went on a rant about how he didn't like him.
Mind you he barely liked the real Freddie.
I was actually thinking the same thing lol. Olivia Munn came forward about Shane Black's pedophile friend so I'm legitimately surprised she didn't drop some damning info about Singer, but then again that dude was actually a proven pedo and charged with something (not saying Singer is innocent).
Seems like there's been a lot of awful shit floating around for a long time in regards to his behavior so I wonder what Esquire has that's got Singer doing early damage control this seriously?
Even if someone is working on set, they may not know what's happening behind the background and outside of set. So I'm not surprised. And again not everyone is able to feel safe enough to speak out. If people had, then these problems won't be so rampant.
Very true.
I've heard stories of god awful stuff Singer pulled in his younger days but I'm willing to bet he's gotten a lot smarter about covering his shit up. Fortunately for his victims, not good enough it now seems.
Looking forward to reading the piece. I've long been wondering just what it'd take to do his guy in. We've been hearing about his scandals for decades. The oldest one I recall has to do with the filming of the Apt Pupil shower scene:
source: https://ew.com/article/1997/05/02/indecent-proposal-set-apt-pupil/
It sucks to see people who's work you admire turn out to be such shitbags. As a gay person I've loved his take on the X-Men (particularly the first two, and DoFP) and how he stressed the gay civil rights parallels there. There's lots of appreciate in many of his other films too. Thankfully most of that work can stand on its own when he's long gone.
I don't know what it is about Singer that has protected him long after people like Harvey and Spacey have been toppled. If there are more victims out there, I hope they have the courage to step forward.
source: https://ew.com/article/1997/05/02/indecent-proposal-set-apt-pupil/
It sucks to see people who's work you admire turn out to be such shitbags. As a gay person I've loved his take on the X-Men (particularly the first two, and DoFP) and how he stressed the gay civil rights parallels there. There's lots of appreciate in many of his other films too. Thankfully most of that work can stand on its own when he's long gone.
I don't know what it is about Singer that has protected him long after people like Harvey and Spacey have been toppled. If there are more victims out there, I hope they have the courage to step forward.
Gus Van Sant
Greg Araki
Pedro Almodovar
John Waters
Rob Marshall
Bill Condon
Stephan Daldry
Lisa Cholodenko
Dee Rees
James Ivory
That's just off the top of my head, and not counting OGs like George Cukor. There are tons.
I really hope the hammer finally comes down on Singer for good. The guy's been too slippery for too damn long.
I suppose many things happened with many people at those "parties" ?
Sex crimes aren't really like organized crime. He has zero reason to rat on anybody else.
There's been smoke around Singer for at least a decade.
Wonder if Esquire will go into the amount of suicides and early deaths of young men who worked for Singer?
yeah, reportedly a lot of Hollywood power gays attended his parties, meaning there are at the very least a lot of potential witnesses who, even if they can't be proven to have directly done anything non-consensual, wouldn't have much in the way of plausible deniability if they claim not to have known.
We'll have to see how the Esquire article plays out, of course, but it's a different story in that regard from someone like Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey. And those two still took years to expose, despite how long their behavior was an open secret in Hollywood.
What situation leads to having underage boys (or girls) at these parties?
What I'm imagining is some party at some rich Hollywood persons luxurious house with a couple hundred people, probably at night - with lots of recreational drug use, drinking etc. Am I on the right track or it's something completely different? I just don't get how this guy, Spacey etc are meeting boys this way, even aspiring actors looking to network, at ages 14-16 unaccompanied by a parent or guardian at parties like this? It seems like there's a pimping aspect to it not being fully discussed in the coverage of these men.
What I'm imagining is some party at some rich Hollywood persons luxurious house with a couple hundred people, probably at night - with lots of recreational drug use, drinking etc. Am I on the right track or it's something completely different? I just don't get how this guy, Spacey etc are meeting boys this way, even aspiring actors looking to network, at ages 14-16 unaccompanied by a parent or guardian at parties like this? It seems like there's a pimping aspect to it not being fully discussed in the coverage of these men.
His powerful co-conspirators. They don't know how to get rid of him without implicating their whole rape crew.
You often see the child stars turn against their parents after these things happen to them i.e. Amanda Bynes.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with calling it pimping
I was listening to a podcast recently about the subject of pedos in power in Hollywood. They posited that some (obviously horribly shitty) parents are more than willing to pimp their defenseless children for the money that can be made in showbiz. They also mentioned rumors that they'd heard about child actors being easier targets if the parents were less involved usually because they were going through a divorce or a single parent etc.
Simply disgusting. Flush all these creeps out till they have nowhere else to hide I say.
Simply disgusting. Flush all these creeps out till they have nowhere else to hide I say.
There's a lot of due diligence to do on these articles. Ronan Farrow's exposés are usually in the works for over a year.
I really hope what they have is solid
Cause after going through the rest of their Twitter I'm like
Um
UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Good, go after this guy.
After him, take down the folks at Nick.
I'm pretty cautious about believing some of the stuff we hear, and prefer to really have a wait and see on these things. With these two cases though, I think we have waited to see for far too long. Prove it all and take them down, or prove none of it is true and we can move on.
I don't think much of it can be proven false though.
After him, take down the folks at Nick.
I'm pretty cautious about believing some of the stuff we hear, and prefer to really have a wait and see on these things. With these two cases though, I think we have waited to see for far too long. Prove it all and take them down, or prove none of it is true and we can move on.
I don't think much of it can be proven false though.
What? Open slander? I'm not quite sure what you're saying? Seriously...
I've been working in entertainment for a while now, and I remember since day fucking one of my internship about 12 years ago or so I was hearing shit about Singer. Specifically around the Superman Returns shoot.
How he keeps getting work, again with a big payday with Red Sonja under the umbrella of an equally shitty person in Avi Lerner, isn't surprising because shitty people are going to hire shitty people to make their shitty fucking movie that nobody asked for.
I hope this article takes him down. He seems to be a holdout that hasn't faded out yet.
How he keeps getting work, again with a big payday with Red Sonja under the umbrella of an equally shitty person in Avi Lerner, isn't surprising because shitty people are going to hire shitty people to make their shitty fucking movie that nobody asked for.
I hope this article takes him down. He seems to be a holdout that hasn't faded out yet.
Look around, there are lots of pictures floating around from his "parties" and a lot of well known people attended them (Including actors such as Kevin Spacey and Ian McKellen). Just look at how long it took for Spacey to be brought down and his stuff was mostly him acting alone.
Isn't the shit he has done like Hollywood's worst kept secret? I'm surprised it has taken this long.
I'm only surprised that it's taking so long for Singer because there's a documentary that has been out for years that specifically mentions Singer as an abuser. I have no clue how in the #metoo era that docu somehow went under the radar.
I think its because he can roll on a lot of people. Having those weird sex parties at his house wasn't done all by himself. Nor was everyone turning a blind eye to the dude, being surrounded by teens reviewing shots privately. He was a creep around Digital Domain, so im sure if he wasn't afraid to act weird publicly, yeah, dudes got some dirt on people. When its finally out in the open, I'm betting it will shake hollywood a bit more than Harvey.
Must be going crazy sitting there waiting for this article to drop and to see how the world reacts.
I can hardly imagine how panicked and nervous he is waiting for this thing to drop. The kind of extreme anxiety of knowing you're about to be found out.
I hope it's deeply unpleasant for him, and I hope Esquire has nailed the sourcing and stories. If Singer's the kind of guy he seems to be he doesn't deserve to slink off and avoid repercussions.
I hope it's deeply unpleasant for him, and I hope Esquire has nailed the sourcing and stories. If Singer's the kind of guy he seems to be he doesn't deserve to slink off and avoid repercussions.
even if you weren't personally drugging and raping underage or barely legal boys, if you were a fixture at his parties for years, it's hard to plausibly claim that you didn't know anything about what was happening 50 feet away
It's absolutely the case that many showbiz parents are *monsters* who will happily throw their kids to be exploited and abused if they think it'll net them some money.