Both of Loughlin’s daughters have dropped out of USC.
Unfortunately that happens a lot. Kevin Spacey’s last film was at least OK by accounts and had a good cast. It was already in the can but the company killed it. They released it in theaters probably because they had to by contract. With zero marketing and a quick exit it made a couple hundred bucks. Most people probably don’t even know it exist. No sympathy for Spacey of course but there are 105 people listed in the cast alone.
I’ve heard that tactics is taking flowers to your first date with a girl, whereas strategy is sending her flowers three days before your first date.
When push comes to shove it is quite rare in Hollywood for anyone to give a rat’s ass about anyone else.
Loughlin has been fired from Fuller House, too.
I’m imagining the daughters’ reaction is the reaction that Homer has after Monty Burns insists he step down as head of the union in order to get the dental plan.
I don’t think it’s a matter of not caring. I’m sure everyone involved wanted to make money off of it. But the producers knew that if they tried to distribute and market the film they would be crucified in the press and on social media and still lose money. It was a no win situation for everyone involved.
On the other hand they could have listened to the decades worth of stories and not hired him in the first place.
Mainly I meant the stars, Loughlin, Huffman, but in Spacey’s case the producers are questionable.
This is no surprise in Hollywood, productions shut down in a hurry all the time, it’s not like a business going under that tries to struggle through for a while, shows get cancelled, ba-bam!, it all shuts down overnight. So all the people who are out of work knew there was a chance of this for some reason or another. But I doubt these stars and producers thought for a moment about the effect of crimes being revealed.
I’ll actually defend Loughlin and Huffman a little. I serious doubt they thought what they were doing would be serious enough to get them fired from their jobs and their productions cancelled. After all, nepotism runs rampant in Hollywood so why should they be singled out for ostracization. Personally I think Hallmark is overreacting and it would not surprise me at all if they rehire her after this whole scandal blows over.
They didn’t do it to punish her. They did it because she is an untouchable PR disaster right now and they didn’t want to lose their sponsors. A goody two shows operation like the Hallmark channel likely won’t use her ever again.
I don’t know that Hallmark necessarily won’t use her again, but I’m not sure they have that much incentive to. There are likely a good number of actresses of similar age/fame that would be willing to make the same sorts of mystery movies.
Heck, Hallmark already has a bunch of other actresses whom they regularly employ, including Candace Cameron Bure (who also happens to be another Full House alum), Lacey Chabert, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kellie Martin, Danica McKellar, etc., etc.
And, yeah, as hajaro notes, Hallmark is an extremely conservative company. I don’t see them bringing Loughlin back any time soon, if ever.
USC has done a lot in the past decade or two to improve their bona fides in undergraduate academics. A generation ago, with the exception of its film and dentistry programs, it was primarily a school for wealthy, but academically ungifted kids, and was often mocked as the University of Spoiled Children.
The first Garage Sale Mysteries movie had a different actor playing her husband Jason. And the actors playing the kids were different in the beginning too. Maybe now they can get a different actress to play Jennifer. I’d rather see that than see it axed altogether.
I can understand that. I may have watched the first, not sure. Haven’t followed the movie series, though. Do watch Aurora Teagarden with Cadance Cameron Bure, though.
Hallmark’s reaction is entirely proportionate. The entertainment industry is a PR industry, and Lori Loughlin’s escapades won’t play well with the ordinary folks who watch Hallmark films. She’s a serviceable actor, but can be replaced with any number of reliable professionals. They have no reason to hire her back.
This isn’t nepotism. This is paying bribes under the table. I think it’s a lot more likely that they just never once thought they’d get caught.
As several articles have pointed out over the past couple of days, she is more than one actor out of a stable of actors, she’s become a major part of the Hallmark brand, with the mystery series, a romance series, a ton of Christmas movies, and a bunch of side businesses. I suspect this means that after a suitable amount of time has passed, she’ll go on a redemption tour of talk shows followed by a return to Hallmark (in show business, in the end if’s all about the benjamins). It helps that the Hallmark audience demographic loves a good redemption story.
I think it’s her besmirched Christian values that will keep her from doing so, and from her getting hired back.
That ship has kinda sailed now!
But if you do it before she was born, that’s just weird.