I wonder if this is part of the reason her dad was in His Dark Materials. I vaguely remember seeing somewhere that he auditioned to be there to make sure that she was all right. Since that was after Logan, they might have had a family agreement to let her act, but keep an eye out for people offering her hard drugs.
Anyway, I thought she was great for the role of Lyra, and her dad was an excellent creepy cardinal.
How despicable do you have to be to offer cocaine to an 11-year-old girl? How can your moral compass be so wrong?
As horrible as that is I can’t help but think it’s one of the less traumatic things that could have happened. Idk what parent would EVER let their kid go to hollywood and spend a single second without them in the same room watching them. This is the place where Harvey Weinstein reigned as one of the most powerful people around for decades while being a serial rapist. It’s just a cesspool.
It’s nice to read that Hugh Jackman is a good man. I was worried when I started reading the article.
I understand his marriage went to shit in an unflattering way, but I’ve never heard anything to imply he’s something worse than a cheater, and even then you never know what really led a marriage to unravel or over what timeline.
My brother has been with his wife 18 years. She stopped sleeping with him a decade ago. They went to counseling, she said it was a waste of time. He travels a lot… He started to find his own fun.
She’s not evil, she’s not cheating. She’s mega depressed and won’t get help.
Obviously there’s LOT more to this story I’m not sharing, but these are the pertinent bits.
I think this is a great illustration that life is complicated. They obviously still love each other enough to stay together. There is so much more to a relationship than sex. If he’s getting his needs met and they can make it work, I won’t judge. It’s disappointing she won’t get help but sometimes people need to hit rock bottom before they’re ready to accept help.
Yeah, just because your personal life gets complicated at some point, it doesn’t make you a monster. Some of the kindest, most open-hearted people I know are also the biggest, messiest drama-royalty you will ever see. Hell, the two may even go together since they both involve processing big feelings.
He did sing happy birthday at Rupert Murdoch’s birthday party… So there’s that. Apparently they’re in the same “school”/cult
Rupert Murdoch
It gets much worse:
Ivanka Trump was reportedly in attendance at Murdoch’s party. A source told People that she was “cheering [Jackman] on” as he performed.”
While promoting his 2018 film “The Front Runner,” Jackman told Variety that his longtime friendship with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, was not a reflection of his political values.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/hugh-jackman-sings-rupert-murdoch-birthday-party-1236683132/
Isn’t he a member of some strange sect?
X-Men
Outside of quotes, I’ve never said “LOL.”
That said, you sincerely made me laugh out loud. However, I am not on the floor, my ass still seems to be attached, and - so far as I can tell - I’m not a copter of any sort.
Maybe, LOL? I have heard gossip about his divorce, and the culty stuff is new to me, but you’re the second person to mention it.
Reading the title I thought Hugh Jackman offered him cocaine.
*her
Exactly! More proof I didn’t read the article or watch the movie.
I have business being here. I just saw the word Cocaine and thought it was a party.
It’s always a party here.
Pilot thy meat elsewhere heathen.
I mean doesn’t he have some weird cult ties? Maybe not inherently bad, but something to consider
I have bad news
What’s the TL:DW? Or some other article that I can read?
Basically he is a member of this weird ass quasi intellectual society that seems to view women as second class, and servants to men. Underage abuse allegations and it goes by different names in different places throughout the world.
They are called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Philosophy_and_Economic_Science
I feel like holywood is like version of human trafficking.
Wasn’t the whole Harvey Weinstein deal exactly that?
Pretty sure Hollywood was built off teenage girls manipulated into trying to be stars.
This goes way back. Even producers/execs were trying to diddle Shirley Temple during her heyday.
But it’s not just Hollywood/showbiz. It’s anyone is positions of power.
I thought that was mostly just coercing women into sex for roles. Sexual abuse yes, horrific crime yes, trafficking not necessarily
Not just Hollywood, Showbiz in general. Dan Schneider ruined so many child star lives at Nickelodeon.
It definitely is…
I feel like there’s a powerful pox placed on men who’s first name ends in ‘ey’ (rey, vey) and last name ends in stein (Wein, Ep)
Careful, the Anti Defamation League will be after you!
ey stein, wanted man
I can’t rewatch Enchanted because there is a literal reference to the Epstein sex crime-pipeline at the end of the movie and it is so gross.
I love that movie and Amy Adams is fantastic, but I can never unsee that degenerate shit ever again.
It’s also not on accident because the executive producer on Enchanted was one of Epsteins’ good friends, Barry Josephson, who is in the Epstein files, where he corresponds with him about finding him new hot girls to fuck.
I haven’t been able to find a copy of it, but Kirby Dick’s documentary Open Secret is about exactly this.
See also Jennette McCurdy’s book, I’m Glad My Mom Died
She should have a chat with Larry “Laurence” Fishburne about his time on the set of “Apocalypse Now”
I always thought about a comedy skit where there’s a place like the X-Men Academy, except it’s child actors being mentored by former child stars.
Drew Barrymore was in rehab before she turned 21, and Tatum O’Neil won an Oscar when she was nine.
The Danger Room is full of tables piled up with cocaine and Scientology personality tests and you have to walk straight to the other door.
I didn’t think of it like that, but it’s a wild image.
Drew Barrymore was allegedly drunk on the set of ET when she wasn’t even 5. The world of showbiz is insane.
The Barrymore and Drew ancestry she has is particularly bonkers. She comes from an unbroken (though slightly zig-zaggy on a family tree) line of actors going back literally 200 years, many of them with notoriously unhappy personal stories. Celebrity gossip is that her daughter(s) may eventually act, which would bump it from 6 to 7 generations.
Plenty of horrible parents outside of showbiz,
The famous folks get more attention.
I knew she had a troubled history, but that’s just sad. My older sister said she once drank alcohol she found around that age, but that was a mistake. Who would knowingly give a 5yo alcohol?
Wow, he’s had a much more storied career than I realized.
AI should just replace child actors. We’ve known for a while that child labor is bad in nearly every other industry but we “needed” it in film industry because there was no way around it. Now there is a way around it and no need to subject children to the exploitation of Hollywood.
So instead of demanding better standards and culture around child actors, we should instead build more data centers to make AI children. Bad take my dude.
Child labor is inherently exploitative. No matter what standards or culture you put around it children should not be working.
Even if every adult treats the child perfectly there’s still psychological damage involved in being a child star. I’d rather a data center get built then have a child suffer from trauma.
The data center causes pollution and also steals the water from MANY children. This is some galaxy-brain stuff.
We could save on water and pollution by using children for anything we already use machines for, that doesn’t make it right.
Should we have children toiling in the mines because the mechanical drill uses too much water and emits pollution?
There used to be a time in theatre when men played every role, including that of women or children. What the fuck ever happened to acting? You’re not acting like a child if you literally are a child. Get Hugh Jackman to play the 11 year old girl, and the 11 year old girl to play Wolverine. That’ll show off their acting chops better.
Pretty sure back then the definition of men included male children 14+ tho didn’t it?
What we need is a shared expectation that characters meant to represent young children should be played by puppets.
And to be clear - not lifelike animatronics. Just floppy felt puppets.
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