Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
She needs to go to Atlanta. Down there is Black Hollywood am I right?
Mo'Nique Said SHe's Blackballed FROM HOLLYWOOD
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Do you really think she got blackballed only because of her attitude?
Christian Bale
Sean Penn
Deniro
Mark Walberg
Are all complete dikkheads, but they still get roles in Hollywood
Come on breh, those white men can act like dikkheads because they have had a long career that has made the studios money.And they all open movies, people will pay money to see their movies, keep it 100, people aint checking for a Monique movie.
Monique was a costar in Welcome home, Roscoe Jenkins and some bit parts on tv shows. She was not a "movie star"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594898/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Keep it 100, her character in Precious was the worst ever. Anyway, there was no reason why that movie should have even been made.
this is all i see:
and no one ever made those complaints prior to precious. hell, they loved wobbling her tactless ass in front of the camera to make a mockery out of black women. what sudden changed?
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
Do you really think she got blackballed only because of her attitude?
Christian Bale
Sean Penn
Deniro
Mark Walberg
Are all complete dikkheads, but they still get roles in Hollywood
What does she bring to the table that is so unique that she can't be replaced? I mean they got Oprah to fill all her roles right?
Christian Bale is a huge dikk head but he also stars in movies that bring 300-400 million dollars in the box office. Same with Deniro, Walhberg, etc.
The one thing you failed to realize with all those guys is they are LEAD actors in major titles. MoNique is not. She's a supporting actress. Which is by no means me belittling her. I find her funny actually. It's just easier to replace a role player than the allstar.
That's like asking why the Lakers keep Kobe around but haven't been able to replace him. He's a dikk yes but hes good at what he does and puts asses in the seats.
What are they doing? Put me on game breh
Lakers Offseason
Superstar
Do you really think she got blackballed only because of her attitude?
Christian Bale
Sean Penn
Deniro
Mark Walberg
Are all complete dikkheads, but they still get roles in Hollywood
Those are A list stars breh
We're talking about Mo'nique here. Who will go see a Mo'Nique movie just off the strength of Mo'nique?
It's like when Jimmy Johnson would let Irvin, Aikman, Emmitt and all his stars get away with a lot of shyt, while he cuts rookies and bench warmers for the stupidest shyt. Same concept. It happens in all industries.
DamnI remember the fallout when she started losing the weight. Then again, she was the "Black BBW" Icon for a bit.
They cut her right the fukk off when she showed those first few pictures of her working out
When you over 40, them health issues creep up on ya. Fat people don't stay fat and still live. Look what happened to Heavy D and Patrice O'Neal.
It's true. Fact is, if you are overweight and need other people to validate it, you aren't comfortable with it yourself.
Without people saying "It's ok to be big" they would be in a constant state of unease. She was on their team, but she saw the light.
There are zero benefits to being big, and the negatives creep on as you get older. Overweight brehs and brehettes can be fine being
overweight, but when the chronic back pain, cost of clothing, healthcare, inability to run after your own children (if you dont lose fertility) is
100% their own fault. Very few people have chronic issues that cause them to gain weight. Most of it is bad food and bad food habits.
Plus being fat is selfish as fukk to your kids when they could lose a parent cause of gluttony.
FreddyCalhoun
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Mo'Nique: I'm 'difficult', 'tacky' and was blackballed after Oscar win
Precious star who won best supporting actress award five years ago says Hollywood has shunned her for being ‘tactless’ and that parts in subsequent Lee Daniels movies were offered to her then given to Oprah Winfrey
Mo'nique with her Oscar in 2010. Photograph: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images
Ben Child
Thursday 19 February 2015 03.13 ESTLast modified on Thursday 19 February 201505.16 EST
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The Oscar-winning actor Mo’Nique has claimed she was “blackballed” by Hollywood following her victorious turn as an abusive mother in the harrowing 2009 Lee Daniels drama Precious.
In an essay to be published in the 27 February issue of the Hollywood Reporter, seen by E! News, the 47-year-old actor said she only found out a few months ago that she had been deemed persona non grata by studios.
“I got a phone call from Lee Daniels,” said the actor. “And he said to me, ‘Mo’Nique, you’ve been blackballed.’ I said, ‘Why?’ And he said, ‘Because you didn’t play the game.’”
The actor reminded her director that she famously did not campaign for her best supporting actress Oscar win in 2010.
Mo’Nique goes on to suggest that her absence from the screen - the actor has just a handful of relatively minor film and television credits between 2009 and last year’s Blackbird - is because she is “difficult,” “tactless” or “tacky”, adding: “That’s why I have my beautiful husband because he’s so full of tact. I’m just a girl from Baltimore. But being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you.”
Mo’Nique cites two roles eventually taken by Oprah Winfrey, that of Forest Whitaker’s wife in Daniels’ The Butler and that of Richard Pryor’s grandmother in a forthcoming Daniels biopic, as examples of parts she was initially offered but later discovered she had lost. “They all just went away,” she said.
Daniels issued a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, which reads: “Mo’Nique is a creative force to be reckoned with. Her demands through Precious were not always in line with the campaign. This soured her relationship with the Hollywood community. I consider her a friend. I have and will always think of her for parts that we can collaborate on, however the consensus among the creative teams and powers thus far were to go another way with these roles.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/201...-blackballed-after-oscar-win?CMP=share_btn_fb
I would feel bad for her....but I'm to busy tap dancing everyday for my pay check...
Black actors crying that Hollywood isn't fair is annoying to me. Everybody other black person has to do it for 90% less of what you are making. I'm not saying go full c00n, but don't complain when you have to be a difference person at work. WE ALL DO
UserNameless
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Just saw her being used as a celebrity extra in the NBA on ABC promos. Something's better than nothing. 
in all honesty what type of roles can she play?Just saw her being used as a celebrity extra in the NBA on ABC promos. Something's better than nothing.
i mean shes great in the angry woman role and besides that, nothing
UserNameless
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We dont know...
