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  • Maggie Gyllenhaal Discusses Hardships In Getting Movie Roles

    In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Maggie Gyllenhaal talked about her rejections for casting roles in the past. Gyllenhaal shared all the negative criticisms casting agents had told her.

    During a roundtable, the 37-year-old actress was sarcastically asked if she ever considered quitting acting. The actress recalled that she received plenty of ‘NOs’ during casting calls. Gyllenhall admitted that even today, she still gets that answer despite her success in Hollywood.

    “When I was starting out, I used to hear ‘no’ a lot and still do,” said Gyllenhaal.

    The worst lines that Gyllenhaal has admitted to hearing were ‘you’re not sexy enough’ and ‘you’re not pretty enough’.

    “When I was really young, I auditioned for this really bad movie with vampires. I wore a dress to the audition that I thought was really hot. Then I was told I wasn’t hot enough,” added Gyllenhaal.

    One person on the roundtable panel, Empire’s Taraji P. Henson, seconded the actress’s statement saying that she too had been told the same things before.

    Gyllenhaal said she tried even harder to appear sexy at auditions after being told by her manager to “sex it up a little bit.” The actress then wore leather pants and a pink leopard top during another audition but she still failed to get the role.

    “After that, I was like, OK, f*ck this!,” she exasperated.

    Apart from being rejected due to her looks, Gyllenhaal has also been denied roles due to her age. She revealed that at age 37, she was rejected as being too old to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man.

    The actress justified that she never bought and will never buy into the plastic surgery tradition in Hollywood.

    “I wanted to show what a woman my age really looks like. I am much more turned on when I see people’s bodies that look like bodies I recognize,” said Gyllenhaal.

    Sadly, other actresses at the same roundtable, such as Jessica Lange and Ruth Wilson, related to Gyllenhaal’s experiences.

  • Why The Murdochs Should Let That Wendi Deng Twitter Fake-Out Go Away

    Turns out that fun-but-not-funny fake Twitter account of Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng wasn’t so carefree after all.

    First there was the question over whether the Murdochs should sue Twitter because the fake account actually managed to be verified albeit for only three days. But this whole verification snafu highlights a similar problem that is probably all too familiar to News Corps and Murdoch. Hollywood Reporter details the problem:

    News Corp. itself is currently being sued by an individual named Julie Riggs who ran a celebrity verification service called “Celebrity Guardian Angel,” which suffered after going toe-to-toe with the giant corporation over a Johnny Depp impostor on MySpace.

    Riggs had a MySpace page that verified whether celebrity accounts were real or not. Before Twitter launched its own service, Riggs was a pioneer in offering badges so celebrities could show they were who they said they were. But when she flagged a Depp poser on MySpace and the impostor complained, MySpace deleted her account. Then, MySpace introduced its own celebrity verification service, leading Riggs to sue.

    Ruh-roh. Well, that’s one good reason why the Murdochs should probably just let this issue trot off into obscurity. 2011 certainly was the best year for PR for the corporation given that whole phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the complete window-shuttering of News of the World. Maybe the Murdochs should take a similar route of action and, like NofW, just shut down this story altogether so nobody else comes a-knocking about that eye-sore of a lawsuit they’re dealing with concerning the MySpace verification services.

    Then again, who knows. News Corp. hasn’t really developed the reputation of shying away from controversy of, well, anything, so maybe they will sue Twitter over the fake Wendi Deng account. What do you think? Think they’ve got a case here and, if so, should they pursue it? Or should they try to make sure that 2012 is a recovery year for News Corp.’s PR? Comment below!