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The people who were fired


Did you notice that the people who were fired in that movie were not the supermodels of the working world. They were the frumpy, old, ugly, overweight, ethnic, and colored members of the workforce.

I wonder how much that mirrors the real world.

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Check out the trivia section. They were actually real people who were recently laid off

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it felt so real,I guess that's why,besides the black lady and a few I never saw those actors

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Yeah, the talks at the end about what got them through their problems... Those people were real.

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One fired guy was an actor I recognize, he was in the state farm commercials

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the ones that directly interacted with ryan were actors: zach gafanalisk(sp) at the beginning, jk simmons(the chef wannabe) and the woman who says she's going to jump off a bridge.

everyone that you dont actually see talking with ryan or natalie are real people that were recently fired. apparently they were asked to just talk about how they felt when they were fired and what they would have liked to have said and that kind of thing

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...and he won an Oscar last night.

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