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Leslie Jones on Ghostbusters death threats, Jason Reitman’s ‘unforgivable’ comment, and salary dispute


https://variety.com/2023/film/news/leslie-jones-ghostbusters-racism-death-threars-fought-pay-1235727974/

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Jason Reitman is the son of Ivan Reitman and I think he was more in tune with making a movie for the fans. No one cares when GB 2016 was not funny and a steaming pile of shit as a movie.

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evil

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Leslie is an untalented hack that got a charity hire to SNL and this movie because she fits a particular demographic. She runs her mouth like she's talented despite not having any type of success to validate her supposed talent. This is just the norm now. Blame men or racism when a movie fails. It's much easier than taking personal accountability.

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Sometimes I wonder what this bitch would do if she suddenly lost the ability to speak or use her fingers. You think she would die from not being able to shoot off her mouth or type on social media?

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YOUR LONG LOST TWIN?

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Ungratefulness and lack of Self-Awareness is the reason her 15 minutes of fame ended so quickly.

Jones said she also had to fight for her worth on set during the making of the “Ghostbusters” reboot.

“It was made clear to me at times during the process that I was lucky to even be on that movie, but honestly, I was thinking, ‘I don’t have to be in this muthafucka,'” she writes. “Especially as I got paid way less than Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. No knock on them, but my first offer was to do that movie for $67,000. I had to fight to get more (in the end I got $150K), but the message was clear: ‘This is gonna blow you up—after this, you’re made for life,’ all that kind of shit, as though I hadn’t had decades of a successful career already. And in the end, all it made for me was heartache and one big-ass controversy.”


Imagine being this ignorant and thinking you deserve anything close to Melissa and Kristen who had years of commercially successful roles who brought 100+ millions to studios. While you are one giant nobody. She was some unpopular SNL member everyone hated because she played one role - loud obnoxious woman. And no, it's not because they were all racist at SNL and didn't want to write normal roles for her. It's because that was the only role she was able to play because she is not an actress. And she played the same role here. Thinking this was some Friends like thing when all 4 leads would get same salary. LOL.

Kate McKinnon probably received way less then Melissa and Kristen too. Since she was only starting in movies too. But Kate McKinnon still has career and just did Barbie. While Leslie Jones vanished the moment she left SNL. Because there was no tool to stay in press every week screaming "racism" for sympathy. And everyone, including press, forget about her.

Still hilarious she only got 150k. Considering budget. Means only big stars get all the big money. Melissa McCarthy probably negotiated some 3-5 millions

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She really just can't accept the fact this movie was a flop

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She can't bring herself to admit the movie just flat out sucked and that no one asked for an all female version of Ghostbusters.. It's bad enough I feel the 1984 movie was overrated to begin with but whatever

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None of them can. When movie is being pushed by "being woke" and then flops they will always blame toxic fans.

They forget and don't want to see that fact that "toxic fans" may hate (and often do) when some actor is being chosen for beloved character and they don't think that actor fits. But when movie comes and that actor is actually good - they eat their pride and watch movie and then praise it.

Examples:
- Daneil Craig as James Bond. Everyone hated when he was cast. Demanded to be recast. Then loved him when movie came and he was good.

- Ben Affleck as Batman

- Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.

- Robert Pattinson as Batman

- Ryan Gosling as Ken

- Heath Ledger as the Joker

Point - if movie would be good - people would watch it. But it wasn't.

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