First, Transformers franchise starlet Megan Fox Megan Fox promotes Twentieth's Jennifer's Body in Wonderland magazine by accusing Michael Bay of wanting to "create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for." Now, Woody Harrelson, while promoting Sony's Zombieland, similarly accuses Rupert Murdoch:
PLAYBOY: You talk a lot about corporate greed, but do you ever feel a conflict working for giant corporations as an actor? Your other big new movie, 2012, is a gargantuan Sony product.
WOODY HARRELSON: Yeah, there’s definitely a conflict, though I don’t look at Sony as a terrible corporation the way, for example, Fox is. Fox is bad news. I do not like Rupert Murdoch. He’s like Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda guy. Murdoch is waving the flag not because he gives a shit about it but because he just wants to make money. It seems to be tried and true for him, though now I guess his empire’s taken a bit of a hit.
Harrelson’s a hypocrite. Sony is just as bad as all the others, only that’s who is providing his paycheck this time around. Sorta reminds me of Michael Moore blasting capitalism after he’s made millions from it.
Not to mention M. Moore making a movie about health care, all the while he weighs 500 pounds. Yeesh, these people just don’t get it.
Ah Harelesons grasp at being noticed good on him since the man is incapable of acting his way out of a paper bag he has to resort to letting sewage seap out of his mouth to a magazine that itself has become more and more irrelevant..let us not judge him a hypocrite but as a true entertainer some of the crap that comes out of these actors/actresses are so priceless that they have replaced movies as a source of amusement. This site to me is the new movie house worth the price of admission some comments make me giggle from their clever remarks and others make me cry for I get to see first hand the sheer stupidity that exists out there..see who needs the movies any more entertainement has come along way baby!
Now it makes sense. When I was taking acting lessons in High School, we were never instructed to act our way out of a paper bag.
Lesson learned. I hope Mr. Stanley takes note on what is really important for those of us aspiring actors. Some of us wanted to work in Hollywood.
Curiously, Michael Moore doesn’t hire union workers to make his films. He really likes using “interns” in his magnanimous operation. *Whew* No pesky IA health insurance to pay!
If Murdoch is the equivalent of Goebbels (Hitler’s propagandist), Jeff Immelt is be the equivalent of Konstantin Chernenko (Stalin’s propagandist).
Wrong. But thanks for playing.
God bless Woody.
Wrong. But thanks for playing.
Wood Harrelson is dead on. The fact of the matter is Rupert Murdoch promotes very far right wing, perhaps even Neo-Facist views through Fox News. If there is anyone who can be compared to Goebbels better in our time I would like to know?
Nancy Pelosi
Gee more hate speech from the left, WHAT A SHOCKER! Another liberal using Hitler, OMG, stunning. It’s only stunning if you have your head in the sand (aka NY Times).
So it seems that “Truth” believes that anything not Socialist/Marxist is “radical” and “far right wing” bordering on Fascist. Seems to me you are bordering on senile.
The post Title should have been: When will liberals grow up and stop name calling?
Is our education system so weak (remember it’s run by leftists who are controlled by Unions), or is the left so mentally unstable; that they can not tell the difference between a madman who runs a company, and someone who has an army/navy/air force and runs a country with an iron fist? Are you that stupid? Or are you so filled with hate, that you think as irrationally as Hitler did. He at least had an excuse, syphilis. The irony of this is stupefying.
Every time you leftist use the “Hitler attack,” it becomes more meaningless and shows you to be an intolerant hater, or a mentally defective human being. It also diminishes what Hitler did. Seems an intelligent person in control of themselves would understand that.
Comparing someone to Hitler merely because they disagree with you, says everything about you and nothing about them. I can assure you that conclusion drawn is not favorable.
He didn’t compare Murdoch to Hitler. He compared him to Hilter’s #1 propagandist. Which is, truthfully, a much more apt comparison. Neither one has an army, but they do have tons of media coverage and the ability to throw huge amounts of misinformation into the airwaves to convince people of things that aren’t true. Like that Jews are stealing all your money or that government run health care will kill everyone over 65…
I’m sure Woody will be working for free in the future because he’s not in it for the money.
The simple answer is, people are dumb. They do not know how to describe events or people beyond simple terms. Words such as gay and rape are used all the time to convey a person’s thought. I forgot to include the N word , that is used all the time and yet the speaker doesn’t realize how it demeans them. I miss the good old days when the F*&@ was the only adjective we needed.
Godwin’s Law, it’s called.
I think Harrelson caught a piece of a show on the History Channel, and figures he’s an expert.
Yet even a broken clock is right twice a day. Murdoch is in it for the money, and the secret of his success is how he makes that money. Rupert’s specialty is building media outlets that fill a gap left by the other media outlets.
When he started out in Australia a lot of the major newspapers leaned to that country’s equivalent of the Tories. His newspapers leaned toward the Labor Party, because that was an unexploited market. Fox News exists and has such high ratings because there is obviously a gap it is filling in the rest of the media.
I think when people criticize Murdoch, they choose to be blind to the fact that EVERYONE is in business to make money — he’s just much better at it than most, so they think he must be the bad guy. The real bad guy is the guy sitting next to you at the office, or standing in front of you at the store — he’s the one “buying” the products Murdoch (and every other billionaire) sells, and therefore keeping those businesses booming. So at least vent your anger at the real culprit. Murdoch is merely cashing in on what sells — so in America, who can really blame him?
Yeah, he’s actually giving the people something they don’t get on 99.9% of the other media and they are going there in droves, from early morning to late night.
Well technically Woody compared Rupert to Goebbels, not Hitler. Perhaps I’m Third Reich nitpicking but there seems to be a big difference there.
And Megan Fox was probably thinking of John Ford when she said Hitler, but the only two names should could remember were Hitler and Kermit the Frog and she was pretty sure Kermit the Frog didn’t direct The Wings of Eagles. Cut the girl a break. That she’s able to remember her own name as often as she does is pretty amazing.
LOL! Nice. Ford was one of my faves, tho I’d forgotten he directed “Wings”.
If I was Michael Bay I would get rid of her, she’s awful and has no reason to be dissing the guy who MADE HER CAREER like this.
Hitler comparisons are by rule of thumb the easiest way to describe anything you don’t like. Look at any blog or internet conversation between any two 14-40 year old infant and eventually someone, somewhere always winds up being Hitler.
You are absolutely right. It is too easy to pull a Hitler reference. I am waiting for someone to compare an opposer to Ivan the Terrible or Catherine de Medici.
Next thing you know they’ll be comparing Obama to Hitler…
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Next thing you know they’ll be comparing Bush to Hitler . . .
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Actually, Woody Harrelson is absolutely correct. On top of everything Woody mentined, Rupert Murdoch is a parasitic, religious bigot, back-stabbing, hopelessly infantile, greedy,
homophobic, thieving clown; indeed, he seems the perfect specimen to first capture, and then dissect; if one desires to analyze that species of awful, ugly creatures; the ones who lumber around the world in their drunken, neandrathal stupors; earning – naurally – the fiercest enmity of the entire world by displaying their moronic aggresions (most likely the result of their horribly repressed sexuality, and the dangers of inbreeding.) Yes, I speak, sadly, of those missing links that are better known to intelligent people as `Conservative Christian Cavemen`, or by the even simpler designation of `a Republican`. Murdoch is a prime example of
those revenants left over from the Jurassuc era. Albeit one with a
silly Australian accent.
`values` and known as the American Right and the `bible believin` Christians stand for.
Michael and Steven have been in talks with some people at Paramount about kicking the trashy mouthed Megan off of Transformers 3. Paramount spoke with her people Thursday. Bit the hand that feeds her.
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Harrelson compared Rupert Murdoch to Goebbels. And that’s pretty accurate if you focus on his effective use of propaganda. Murdoch is bad news (pun intended).
No more than GE CEO Jeff Immelt who will make tens of billions from stimulus and “green” projects.
I’ve yet to see anyone on NBC manufacture an event (like a “tea party” or Glenn Beck’s Sept. 12 march on DC). I’ve heard a lot of people bloviate (a favorite word by a FOX hack) but I’ve never heard of NBC News or MSNBC staging an event as well as covering it. Fox, by definition, makes the news they cover. That’s a form of propaganda. They are to news what the WWE is to professional sports.
It’s insulting, which was your goal, to say that anyone who marches against your (no doubt you think it’s personal) ideology is manipulated. This is of course the typical leftists attitude. You feel you are superior, and everyone else is a dope.
I would say you need to open your eyes, but that would assume you were not smart enough to see the bias of the media in this country. I will not insult you like that. I will give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you are an intolerant and arrogant leftist who yearns for Socialism because you think we are too stupid to handle out own lives. You see, it’s plainly clear that you ARE an intolerant Socialist/Marxist, who can not back up her ideology. Why else would you have to result to insults?
I feel sad that you are so filled with hate, that you allow the “mainstream” media to manipulate you merely because it makes you feel good. Then again, maybe they are “preachin’ to the choir”
You are either incapable, or unwilling to really examine the ideas you spout, or your beliefs; much less the ideas or actions of the people you side with. I know it’s hard to admit you are wrong, but you should at least be able to defend your position without lying, and demeaning others by implying they were duped merely because you disagree with them.
It’s depressing to know that so many like you have been brainwashed, or worse, choose to believe in Socialism/Marxism in spite of the facts. They never work. Then again, maybe they, like you are arrogant and believe you and they should control us.
It really is sad.
The real Nazi is Professor Obama and his propaganda machine. The Nazi’s were socialists, had universal health care, attacked big business, and were environmentalists. See the similarities? Like the leftists in power today, the Nazi’s also stifled free speech and dissent. Save the Jew killing, there is no difference between Professor Obama and the American left of today. But watch how Professor Obama deals with Israel, and we might add the Jew hating to the column very soon. We know he’s surrounded by Jew haters and embraces them. All facts, sorry to say.
Didn’t take long for the drudge-heads to show up. This post wouldn’t be as funny though if “HelenofPeel” hadn’t predicted it 3 posts earlier.
idiot.
hey jefcostelo
So called “leftists” in power have not tried to stifle free speech. Plenty of free speech still going on, like right here. And you can’t see any difference between Obama and Hitler other than killing Jews? Not one difference? Odd. Look harder.
Our allies England, France, Canada and Japan also have universal health care and they are not Nazis. And Obama hasn’t attacked big business, on the contrary he has saved it from it’s own implosion. As for the Nazi’s being environmentalists (if they were, which you have not supported with any evidence), it’s nice to see they had one thing going for them.
It is interesting that if Obama is surrounded by Jew haters he would pick a Jew to be his chief of staff! Or maybe he was just being mean to that poor Jew!
You live in a fantasy world…
Typical Saul Alinsky tactics. Attack Murdoch because he isn’t a bobble-headed yes man for the Dem party. These people calling Murdoch Hitler are the true facists. Note how the first thing they try to do is insult our intelligence. Not to worry, America has stopped paying attention to non-talents like Woody Harleson who live the big celeb elitist life chattering to each other.
I periodically check this site, nothing to do with Drudge. But don’t let that fac get in the way.
you’re a total jackass
What is it with the Neo-Fascista, that they want to compare the Left to Center to Hitler? Isn’t that who the New Reich (the Republi-can’ts) want to make the trains run on time with? As well as their precious ‘Right to Bear Arms?’ (As if they really want Bears running around with AK-47’s.)
Because in the absence of any knowledge of history, that’s the easiest way to describe a power hungry madman. These folks are not alone, I hear teens describing their uncooperative parents or stricter school teachers as Hitler all the time. It’s a very easy reference because you don’t have to know anything about Hitler to use it. Everybody knows he was not a sweet guy, right?
Though it’s usage annoys me too, I can’t blame them. It’s still effective mass communication, as the masses would be incapable of processing “He’s like Sulla” or even “He’s like Hirohito”. At least Woody drops Goebbels name, which shows that he at least watched a PBS show about Nazis once.
“Murdoch is waving the flag not because he gives a shit about it but because he just wants to make money”
-Did Woody star in “Semi-Pro” or “Surfer Dude” because of a love of film making or because he just wants to make money?
What is wrong with someone who employees close to 50,000 people wanting to run a company that makes money?
To hear Megan Fox say anything bad about anybody is laughable. Worked with her on the set of both Transformer movies, and the crew loathed working with her. She’s the most unappreciative, disprespectful, unflattering girl to step on a set in a long time. While everyone was killing themselves working on this movies, she would show up with her bored looking face that told eveyone, she didn’t want to be there… She’s low class, uncomfortable in her own skin, and her energy is a dark cloud that wipes the beauty right off her face, once you get to really know her. Hey, how many actors would work on a movie for six months and after the last shot get in their car and leave, without saying goodbye or nothin to anybody.
Oh great. Another episode of SNL not to look forward to.
YOU should be a writer. That was so honest and descriptive (and sad). I hope you always have better people to work with in the future.
Aw man, that kinda sucks. I was hoping she was a cool, pretty, but cool chick. Next Wonderwoman or whatever. She can say all kinds of silly things in the press, who cares, but when you hear she’s a douche to the crew, that puts her in a whole-nother light.
Megan, if you’re reading this; please don’t talk like Kelly from 90210 anymore.
Let’s see a bunch of liberals comparing somebody to Hitler. I wonder where an earth they got that idea from.
Unfortunately, Hollywood doesn’t have the monopoly on people saying dumb shit. We’ve got too many microphones and not enough people with worthwhile things to say.
Exhibit A.
Megan Fox has little to gain from appearing in Transformers 3. Transformers 2 was universally reviled by audiences and the next one (which even Bay doesn’t want to make) will suffer for that. I didn’t see anyone calling Bob Orci ungrateful when he went onto the Ain’t It Cool News message boards to personally point the blame for the minstrel robots at Bay and away from himself, Kurtzman, and Kruger. Star Trek was what K+O needed to permanently extract themselves from Bay’s company. A decent opening for Jennifer’s Body would be all the evidence required to prove Fox has an audience who’ll show up to stare at her whether there are giant robots or not. A project like comic adaptation “Fathom” would be perfect after that. It’s unabashed sexploitation in the guise of a superheroine/fantasy story. She may actually be able to pull off a career as a young new Angelina Jolie clone, at least for a while.
lol@ all you libs who claim to “Rage Against the Machine”!!!
Fox is no more corrupt than Sony, than GE, than Disney etc etc….if you truly believe in the eco-bullshit that eminates from your mouth, then you should walk the walk. Sorry, but for WH to open his mouth once again…it makes me giggle. The guy is a pretty big idiot if he really believes all corporations
Rage Against The Liberal Media Machines
@gus: revealing my inner fangirl, but how was shia?
Good God, liberals go absolutely insane that Fox exists. How dare there be mass media out there that doesn’t toe the liberal party viewpoint. It’s evil and must be extinguished!
Give me a break, Harrelson. You’ve got every other network out there. Let the conservatives have ONE.
Megan Fox’s problem is she doesn’t think before she speaks…but it isn’t her fault considering her mind isn’t capable of forming a complete, original thought.
Woody Harrelson’s problem is he does think before he speaks, and yet he still spews out sanctimonious comments.
Society’s problem is that we listen to and comment upon their remarks.
Re Murdoch; Social Responsibility, Fiduciary duty, the mirage of some entertainment business empires, unless tax deductible.
Using Hitler or any henchmen in any serious discussion is a loser’s game, even in light banter a blunder of ignorance and insensitivity.
“Wassup With H’wood Hitler Comparisons?”
It’s the witticism du jour. Perfect for those who can’t make up their own.
The left is obsessed with everything Hitlerian. Every time there is a popular revolt against a giant government program or takeover you can bet Pelosi and company will somehow find a Nazi comparison. It is though they have the Third Reich on the brain!
You mean the Right.
no, stupid.
There was that Page Six story about Bay having Fox wash his car for her audition so I don’t know…it all seems very casting couch tawdry. Maybe this is her retaliation?
Hitler comments are necessary to make IF they fit the subject.
first off,
Harrelson was comparing Fox to Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda guy.
so, let’s see….
Fox News portrays itself as fair and balanced is consistently shown to be twisting and/or ignoring the truth on a daily basis. that doesn’t just include its opinion programs. the news is skewed towards one side and, basically, “plays” millions of Americans who do not bother to use the brain that God gave them.
so, it’s a propaganda machine that propped up 8 years of the Bush administration and now does everything it can to knock down the Obama administration.
Goebbels was a master of propaganda and so is Fox. simple as that. if you don’t see the comparison, then you’re just ignoring it.
“consistently shown”? Examples please. And no edited tripe from “Media Matters”
Some corporations are more equal than others, eh Woody?
“The left is obsessed with everything Hitlerian.”
The left? The left??? Huh?
Wow. You certainly have followed what’s been happening in town halls across America with posters and shouts comparing the current Administration to the Nazis, have you?
I wish everyone would quit using a Hitler comparison. Chances are, they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.
LMFA hate radio, sweet jesus you are adorable unorigional but adorable. You speak of one not knowing the definition of genocide and hence cheapen it what the hell do you think you do by collectively calling Beck and Rush hate radio perhaps savage is he was to vile for my tastes but Beck and Rush you darlin cheapen the term hate by doing such..your entire argument is moot! but thanks for playing.
@czarina … just curious, do you know how to use punctuation?
Megan Fox is a cry-baby and she can’t
handle the heat on a fast moving set.
No, really… she cried. Michael Bay made
her cry…cool.
She’s young and beautiful, AND famous, she thinks she’s ‘keeping it real’ by outing director’s shortcomings or style. She’s so clueless as to what the real world goes through. You know, they HAVE to work possibly YEARS under a boss they despise because no one is offering them choices and not just 3-6 months on a movie set. A movie set for crying out loud! (pun). Not even going to elaborate on the looks lottery.
But then again, and I may cancel out everything I said; we all say stupid meaningless shit all the time except we don’t have sound bites to bite us.
Blah, blah, liberal, leftist, conservative, neo facist…
Let’s see Woody, Fox is Gobbels…
ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, PBS, CNBC, most of the print media from the NY Times to Vanity Fair all report and have reported news with a liberal slant.
Yet Fox is the only channel that shows a conservative side to the news to the center right which makes up the majority of this nation.
Now, let’s talk about the Hitler comparison.
Yes, he did have Gobbels propogandizing for him. But now, MSNBC NBC and CNBC, who shills for this fraud of a president, who is now owned by GE who’s CEO Jeff Himsmelt (Immelt) who is now working for the Obama administration, that all gets a pass in the warped world known as planet Woody?
I guess your nickname fit to a tea for you! You’re head is made of fucking WOOD!
Eat a whole bag of shit ‘mrl.’
‘Liberal’-'conservative,’ not that either of these words signify anything real, isn’t tit-for-tat. (e.g. if you have a dozen media outlets that are, say, anti-genocide, does it make the presence of a pro-genocide channel or magazine acceptable as an countervailing force?) For your ‘there are two parallel propaganda systems that balance one another out’ argument to hold water, you’d have to make the case that each side is equally bad, which you don’t.
In fact, if you’re so extraordinarily concerned about corporate power, evidenced by your comment about Obama being ‘owned,’ then please explain why you’re coming to the defense of Fox News, which promotes and works to normativize relatively radical free-market economic policies, which massively increase the power of large corporations, under the guise of meaningless signifiers like ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ with a verve that you don’t see on any of the non-financial networks.
If you want to be ‘conservative’ (or whatever), be my guest, but if you’re doing it with the impression that you’re fighting on behalf of maximizing ‘freedom,’ please open a book and get your head straight. By trying to pummel the state to death with your idiot mobs, fighting for ‘individual liberty’ which is all but too often jumbled in with ‘free trade’ / ‘free market’ rhetoric, ultimately you’re just working to loose the chains on the high priests of big business, which you yourself identify as the real men behind the curtain.
e.g. If you’re arguing against the incredibly modest health care claims that the Democrats are putting forward (which is more an appeasement to constituencies than genuine reform) as if these people are proposing to gang rape your daughter, then – to me – your argument is essentially: ‘you want to put mild regulations on an industry that is overcharging and mistreating if not me personally, then most people in the country?!?! no way! please deny me basic protections, let the market handle it [e.g. let the four insurance providers in my state work in cartel fashion so they keep inflating prices].
What’s amazing is that these tea party mobs have the form, or appearance, of populist, grassroots action, but they’re in fact radically anti-populist. Think back to the original tea bag protests: very vocal about the the stimulus, which – sure it’s crooked – but offers to at least partially help people who are not super rich…not too much noise from these folks about the bailout, whose direct beneficiaries were, well…
If you’re actually after a freer world, the best thing to do probably does’t involve hanging out with a bunch of xenophobic middle class white people chanting about ‘liberty’ – making claims that could have been far more easily made about the last president – while they lay in bed, often unknowingly, with financial and corporate interests.
um… last time i checked, fox has been kicking the shit out of every other major news network for months now…
@Jack: wow… easy on the koolaid, there, buddy.
Woody Harrelson is no intellectual heavyweight, but compared to Megan Fox he probably is. Truth is the Goebbels comparison,whether you use it to describe Rupert Murdoch or any other media mogul, is a little better focused than the tired cliches about Hitler. Hitler was Hitler. Easy as it is ex post facto to use his name in a sophomoric food fight, he went from total obscurity to being a hair’s breadth away from dominating Europe and possibly the world. The confluence of mass manufactered high tech weapons and absolute ruthlessness had never been seen before and probably will never be again ( BTW, Goebbels credited New York advertising agencies with giving him his best ideas. So was Gobbels just a Teutonic Madison Avenue CEO?)
Fox isn’t right wing. Fox would be considered middle of the road 30 years ago. Everyone else has moved extreme left.
If anything, the reverse is true: Today virtually no one talks seriously about Marxism, or can envision a world structured by something other than global capitalism, and this was not the case in the 1970s; neoliberalism / ‘free market’ theory, which is about as un-left as you can get, is now part of everyone’s basic ideological underpinning; if you’re just talking about the national parties, the Democrat platform is quite a bit more centrist than it was in the 1970s.
The really genius work of the fox news, drudgereport, etc. is that they present totally regressive and hawkish politics and economics as moderate-conservative (which works, because people who are on board with the insularity and jingoism these outlets promote don’t want to see reflections of their views coded as ‘radical’ or ‘fundamentalism’ etc.), and the net effect is that there’s a total recalibration of the left-right spectrum, in which even very genuinely moderate policies or proposals that come from Democrats can be, according to a certain logic, derided as ‘radically left-wing,’ or ‘Marxist’ or whatever else.
If everyone has moved ‘extreme left,’ I’m not sure if that’s such a terrible thing – the country is quite a bit less racist and sexist than it was thirty years ago; while there never seems to be much public concern over war in Afghanistan, the most recent invasion of Iraq was protested beforehand (in contrast, the Vietnam protests didn’t begin until well after the fact, until footage of Americans being wounded came back).
“Fox News portrays itself as fair and balanced is consistently shown to be twisting ”
No. Thats what leftist nutbars claim. And they off no evidence.
And nothing Fox has ever done remotely compares to the Dan Rather CBS attempt to fix the 2004 election with forged TANG documents.
Of course you would have approved of that bias and therefore it doens’t count.
Maybe the Hitler reference have something to do with Tarantino’s influence in the BO.
It all started years ago when Tony Curtis on the set of SOME LIKE IT HOT stated kissing Marylin Monroe was like kissing Hitler.
The analogy worked then and it works now.
Bush’s Press Secretary Scott McClellan already stated that the Bush White House fed Fox News its talking points. They told them what to say and Fox would broadcast it. Fox news was closer to being the American version of Pravda for eight years. So the Goebbels comparison is not entirely accurate. Who ran Russia’s propaganda machine? That’s who Woody should’ve compared Murdoch to.
for all those fox news bashers, has nobody seen the rachel maddow show- she is absolutely the same as those fox people like glenn beck, etc., only for the other side. she’s not the only one on the liberal side that does the glenn beck rush limbaugh thing, please, pay attention… i thought the person who commented about murdoch exploiting vacancies in news/opinion segments was insightful. i don’t know enough to say it’s true, but if so, though i don’t think his motives are anything other than capatalistic, perhaps we shouldn’t be bashing him afterall… oh, and by the way, i find megan’s straight up unfiltered talk refreshing. i think it’s a shame that soon she’ll become the politically correct ass-kissing bore that the rest of hollywood is. i’m sure she was dead-honest about the director. why would she make something like that up? clearly, she had nothing to gain from it. directors should just calm the fuck down- and their jealous crew…