You have to always remember with slabs and especially the Hollywood machine that it 100% smoke and mirrors, diversion and misdirection. It's all about image and being associated with success.
Remember the Sony hack revealed just how much a certain A-list actress who hired a image consulting company to completely transform her public image as a self-obsessed opiate-addict and homewrecking pervert to Mother Earth/Mother Theresa was actually viewed by the studios? Scott Rudin's infamous email completely exposed the gulf between the image and the reality of how said actress (Jolie) was and likely is viewed behind the scenes.
"I am not remotely interested in presiding over a $180m ego bath that we both know will be the career-defining debacle for us both,” reads one email from Rudin. “I’m not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don’t. She’s a camp event and a celebrity and that’s all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming. We will end up being the laughing stock of our industry and we will deserve it"
I can see the exact same stuff, but much, much more disputing, floating about behind the scenes about the Harkles. If they think Jolie is a camp event, a brat, and minimally talented, what do you think they make of Meghan 'Suitcase Girl' Markle and her insane self-regard and rank ambition? She makes Jolie look like Meryl Streep. Smeg has neither the looks nor the talent for any longevity in the movie or TV business. And they will all know it. All she has is notoriety and associated glamour through her dumb husband. She's nothing more than a human interest, tabloid level story with a short half life unless she can hit upon or offer up something beyond 'married Diana's youngest son's to promote interest in working with her beyond her 'bombshell' Oprah interview.
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