Lemon Zing
Well-Known Member
I quit acting and extra work recently because of all the BS that people were putting me through. I've made threads about that stuff before, but now I'm really finished with it. The whole ordeal has been pointless, not to mention petty, and I've got little to show for all my great efforts. Plus, I have been calling social services and getting fully ignored when it comes to gaining support. I'm sure I could sue them for negligence.
I had my only speaking part removed from a feature film I was in. I got to see the film with my sister a few weeks ago. Some other parts were removed too, but the director just told me that it was due to the season not being right. This has deeply affected me. People do cut scenes from their films, but it didn't make sense to cut my only speaking part as it wouldn't have hardly taking up any real time. The scene involved the director's sister-in-law looking at a map and she was supposed to see me passing by and she would go to me for me to tell her where to go. She is the main character and I'm just this guy she was meant to see nearby. Instead, you just see about one second of me walking by, while she's looking at a map on the ground and that is all. I'm in a few other scenes for a combined 3 seconds. To be honest, I am highly suspicious of the whole thing being a screw-job, but I cannot do anything about it. He didn't seem like the kind of guy who would do that, but surely he knows I wouldn't be happy about him deleting my speaking part. It made me feel like my whole "acting career" (if you want to label it that) has been a failure up to now, mainly because of all the prior hassle I got from people involved with the other films I appeared in. Well, that and I never really progressed beyond background roles, and it isn't looking like I will now.
Nobody even really makes feature length films in Edinburgh very often, and so it's hard to find anybody that will just hire you based on if you asked to be involved. Last year, I thought I got lucky with that film, since I played a zombie in another feature film, and felt content knowing I got a talking part in one film, and achieved an appearance in a horror film too. Now I retract my thoughts. It has been utter chaos for me, partly because my social worker wouldn't give me support. Too many people out there know all this garbage about me too.
Recently, I went on Twitter and saw that this idiotic big shot college producer made posts about me after he rejected me for a part in a short horror film. I just randomly stumbled upon these tweets by chance when I was looking for extra work in Edinburgh. Then I saw all these highly unprofessional, mockery style tweets aimed at me, with people saying they'll cast me in their next film "for a laugh" and stuff like that. The same guy said that making films brings out the loonies. Well, I then called one of the respondent's phone numbers (which I got through his domain details) and got told a lot of hooey about how everybody in the industry knows who I am by now, due to the "blackballing" tactics I warned you about before. I'm not sure if that's totally true or not, but I was aware that people were slandering me in the past so I didn't get crappy extra parts in anything. Or they had ads and gave me dubious replies, and then occasionally told me that someone said not to hire me, only because I kept asking them to man up about their lies. That's malice. He said, "Do you understand me...boy?" like he was meant to be so darn tough. He also said that I better not do any more acting.
I called the cops. They took a brief look today at one tweet, and one cop said that because they didn't name me in the tweets, there's nothing they can do. Yet when I seemingly was annoying people before, they always came running to me. It just made me so fed up, so I deleted most of my accounts, which, in an ideal world, I didn't want to do. Since a few weeks ago, I've been feeling like my whole life in fact, has sucked, because of all the bullying, betrayal and unnecessary nonsense in-between. I'll delete my IMDb account next week as well. I'm still subscribed on there until 2 April, so I can't erase the account even though I cancelled the payments, until then.
I had my only speaking part removed from a feature film I was in. I got to see the film with my sister a few weeks ago. Some other parts were removed too, but the director just told me that it was due to the season not being right. This has deeply affected me. People do cut scenes from their films, but it didn't make sense to cut my only speaking part as it wouldn't have hardly taking up any real time. The scene involved the director's sister-in-law looking at a map and she was supposed to see me passing by and she would go to me for me to tell her where to go. She is the main character and I'm just this guy she was meant to see nearby. Instead, you just see about one second of me walking by, while she's looking at a map on the ground and that is all. I'm in a few other scenes for a combined 3 seconds. To be honest, I am highly suspicious of the whole thing being a screw-job, but I cannot do anything about it. He didn't seem like the kind of guy who would do that, but surely he knows I wouldn't be happy about him deleting my speaking part. It made me feel like my whole "acting career" (if you want to label it that) has been a failure up to now, mainly because of all the prior hassle I got from people involved with the other films I appeared in. Well, that and I never really progressed beyond background roles, and it isn't looking like I will now.
Nobody even really makes feature length films in Edinburgh very often, and so it's hard to find anybody that will just hire you based on if you asked to be involved. Last year, I thought I got lucky with that film, since I played a zombie in another feature film, and felt content knowing I got a talking part in one film, and achieved an appearance in a horror film too. Now I retract my thoughts. It has been utter chaos for me, partly because my social worker wouldn't give me support. Too many people out there know all this garbage about me too.
Recently, I went on Twitter and saw that this idiotic big shot college producer made posts about me after he rejected me for a part in a short horror film. I just randomly stumbled upon these tweets by chance when I was looking for extra work in Edinburgh. Then I saw all these highly unprofessional, mockery style tweets aimed at me, with people saying they'll cast me in their next film "for a laugh" and stuff like that. The same guy said that making films brings out the loonies. Well, I then called one of the respondent's phone numbers (which I got through his domain details) and got told a lot of hooey about how everybody in the industry knows who I am by now, due to the "blackballing" tactics I warned you about before. I'm not sure if that's totally true or not, but I was aware that people were slandering me in the past so I didn't get crappy extra parts in anything. Or they had ads and gave me dubious replies, and then occasionally told me that someone said not to hire me, only because I kept asking them to man up about their lies. That's malice. He said, "Do you understand me...boy?" like he was meant to be so darn tough. He also said that I better not do any more acting.
I called the cops. They took a brief look today at one tweet, and one cop said that because they didn't name me in the tweets, there's nothing they can do. Yet when I seemingly was annoying people before, they always came running to me. It just made me so fed up, so I deleted most of my accounts, which, in an ideal world, I didn't want to do. Since a few weeks ago, I've been feeling like my whole life in fact, has sucked, because of all the bullying, betrayal and unnecessary nonsense in-between. I'll delete my IMDb account next week as well. I'm still subscribed on there until 2 April, so I can't erase the account even though I cancelled the payments, until then.
