{"id":1493818,"date":"2022-05-26T18:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493818"},"modified":"2022-05-26T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:59:50","slug":"when-hollywood-stars-play-the-victim-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-hollywood-stars-play-the-victim-card\/","title":{"rendered":"When Hollywood Stars Play The Victim Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhen-hollywood-stars-play-the-victim-card%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>We can thank Meghan Markle for alerting us to a new, corrosive trend in celebrity interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Markle\u2019s 2021 publicity tour proved that being insanely rich, powerful, and privileged doesn\u2019t equal the power of victimhood.The estranged duchess positioned herself as the victim of a racist monarchy, suicidal tendencies, and the weight of a country\u2019s elitist power structure.<\/p>\n<p>The former actress\u2019 Oprah Winfrey interview inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2021\/03\/08\/the-unbearable-victim-complex-of-meghan-markle\/\">Spiked Online to call out<\/a> her victimhood crusade, but Markle is far from alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s stars do a variation of Markle\u2019s pose, suggesting that their current fame and fortune barely makes up for the suffering they\u2019ve endured.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a palpable disconnect from the people who made them rich and famous in the first place \u2013 the American public. Remember the blowback Gal Gadot and friends received when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/jan\/05\/gal-gadot-imagine-video\">warbled<\/a> \u201cImagine\u201d from their mansions at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic?<\/p>\n<p>Still, they understand that victimhood status matters in modern Hollywood, and on the Left, so they embrace their pain in the hopes it\u2019ll boost their career status.<\/p>\n<p>And it just might.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Schumer is a perfect example. The far-Left comic enjoys bountiful positive press for her progressive posturing and female empowerment shtick. That\u2019s not enough, apparently. In recent months she\u2019s regaled us with her battle with trichotillomania as a child, and how it left her feeling \u201cugly and unlovable,\u201d she told shock jock Howard Stern. The problem plagues her to this day, she noted, and she incorporated it into her Hulu series \u201cLife &#038; Beth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minnie Driver has worked steadily in Hollywood since her breakout role in 1995\u2019s \u201cCircle of Friends.\u201d Her hits include \u201cGood Will Hunting\u201d and \u201cGoldenEye,\u201d and she bounces between TV and film work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/minnie-driver-good-will-hunting-producer-matt-damon-split-1235141201\/?fbclid=IwAR1mJPLA-MhbOo7NUCtmwf-3RJFzxYPrwwXEiRg2WcHQWufm7gOSD0oBRC0\">She still shared<\/a> how being called not \u201chot enough\u201d all but broke her earlier in her career. That came from a \u201cGood Will Hunting\u201d producer she won\u2019t name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was devastating. To be told at 26 that you\u2019re not sexy when you maybe\u00a0just\u00a0got over all your teenage angst and started to think, you know, \u2018Maybe, in the right light and the right shoes and the right dress, I\u2019m all right.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Show business is brutal and looks matter a considerable amount in many projects. Looks, in fact, helped Driver become an internationally recognized star, something she probably won\u2019t complain about anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Busy Philipps knows all about working the woke movement to her advantage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/busy-philipps-slams-chris-pratts-controversial-instagram-tribute\/\">She previously attacked Christian actor Chris Pratt<\/a> on the flimsiest of charges, knowing his faith would make the media take her side.<\/p>\n<p>Philipps also makes sure to portray herself as a victim whenever possible, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2022\/05\/busy-philipps-tv-exec-blocked-directing-career-1234722279\/\">this recent exchange regarding her directing gigs<\/a>. The actress previously helmed an episode of her series, \u201cCougar Town,\u201d and someone suggested she do the same for another high-profile series.<\/p>\n<p>Then, an executive who she refused to name shot down that possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe studio won\u2019t approve it, the network won\u2019t approve it. It\u2019s not going to happen,\u2019\u201d Philipps told Insider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, she alleged that the instance had everything to do with her being a woman.\u00a0 There could be no other reason not to offer her the role.\u00a0\u201cMeanwhile, obviously any dude who\u2019s spent 10 minutes on a television show manages to parlay their career into directing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jada Pinkett-Smith could use some positive press following her husband\u2019s attack on Chris Rock during the March 27 Oscars ceremony, presumably to protect her honor against a joke. The actress recently revealed a new discovery about herself. She suffers from anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>The first clue? She bit her nails, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/27\/jada-pinkett-smith-recently-discovered-she-has-anxiety\/\">according to her comments on her \u201cRed Table Talk\u201d showcase<\/a>. That didn\u2019t get her mother\u2019s full attention, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was rough,\u201d Smith told guest Ireland Baldwin, 26. \u201cI feel like when I was growing up, [my mother] didn\u2019t understand my anxiety. Because she, growing up, had seen her friends die \u2026 she had been through so much stuff that my issues, to her, kind of felt like \u2026 [smaller].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oscar winner Viola Davis seems to have it all, Hollywood wise. She\u2019s the toast of the town, always in demand and the recipient of fawning celebrity profiles. Except when online critics found fault with her take on Michelle Obama. That prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-61213761\">Davis to erupt<\/a> into full victimhood mode.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019 work in Showtime\u2019s \u201cThe First Lady\u201d series sent her into a rage, which she shared with the BBC. She acknowledged criticism comes with the job, but she still couldn\u2019t contain her outrage that some found her take on the former First Lady mannered and over the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you move on from the hurt, from failure?\u201d the 56-year-old asked. \u201cBut you have to. Not everything is going to be an awards-worthy performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritics absolutely serve no purpose. And I\u2019m not saying that to be nasty either \u2026 They always feel like they\u2019re telling you something that you don\u2019t know. Somehow that you\u2019re living a life that you\u2019re surrounded by people who lie to you and \u2018I\u2019m going to be the person that leans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can thank Meghan Markle for alerting us to a new, corrosive trend in celebrity interviews. 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