BEING DISCRIMINATED BY MY UNION FOR BEING A LIBERAL FEMALE-I Voted FOR OBAMA – in fact I have NEVER voted REPUBLICAN- GREEN PARTY leanings- not a Eco Terrorist- I just sign petitons
Now there is a pattern to my issues in Hollywood. Every time I have been abused or discriminated against I can connect it to someone from an ABC/DISNEY shows like Grey’s Anatomy, or Eli Stone. I also notice that there is a connection to the REPUBICANS and in fact I feel as though this whole thing has been to make me live the life of a REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE WOMAN- church on Sunday and taking care of a man or get treated like a tramp. Now I have PROOF that there has been slander of my person and that it is connected to the UNION. You see I got cast in a project called “Moonbound 24” but I quit because of contract terms that were not satisfactory to me and because my intuition told me something was off.
At the audition the casting people mentioned they did something different with their SAG people, but I was SAG, and that also they told us that we would be told to do it twice- the audition. I only did mine once and they were fine with it and then I asked to do it again. An actor they knew waiting made some sarcastic comment about how mine would be better than his. I wrote my own audition for it. We were all supposed to come up with our own character. I already posted my monologue on my Facebook and sent it to a friend in the UK. I did not trust them not to steal what I wrote after I quit.
You see the producer and I were emailing each other. I had called SAG to check on my status and well I did not talk to the UNION rep but someone else. the rep was apparently out of the office, though the producer acted like they were in contact with each other. IN the emails, as you can see, he kept telling me that the Union would tell them if they had a “problem” actor. That word has become a warning to me. You see the student of Will Wallace who was supposed to help me with Central told me a “problem” had to go away. A guy recently pointed out to me that it sounded like she thought I slept with my teacher- and i am NOT that kind of girl. SORRY. Also my father kept telling me “everyone knows in Cali you are a problem.” IN addition, the Church Of Scientology calls people with issues they are interested in “problem sources.” there is more to it, but their logic can lead anyone with a strong mind to paranoia, which is the road i am fighting to avoid. “PROBLEM PROBLEM PROBLEM.”
Well I pointed out to the production that the UNION should not be telling any production anything like that. they should not be in essence labeling anyone anything,not unless the person is a cause of harm to others, and even then i think of some actors who have criminal records, been accused of violence and drugs and well they work. Well the production offered to hire me for $100 for the day. When I got the contract it read $30 and hour. I quit at that point. A long conversation with the UNION about why a production would fire someone- including just differences in opinion. The use of ‘bible study’ in the actual kick starter for the project. Also the fact that they used me already in the kick starter project but then I had not been paid anything yet. I actually talked to SAG and asked if they would have to pay me for the AUDITION they taped. I would not be surprised if they said I was fired, but I have no proof they have done that.
Well production argued that I would make $230 or more for the day at the new rate. Well I am sorry but I doubt that. What producer wastes money by changing the rate to give an actor more? Also well the truth came out in the end. The producer got so upset with me quitting he sent me a nasty email you can read below and actually told me that “everyone at SAG knows you are crazy.” Yeah- because I am a Catholic Buddhist who does not buy into conservative beliefs or religion and I HAVE The RIGHT TO BE Different in my views. I dug around on line and found the production on MySpace and found a video of one of the producers stapling himself in the head and that thy are fans of HESTON- as in the Biggest NRA supporter ever in Hollywood’s history. My Dad’s clan. I AM NOT OF THAT PARTY so more than likely I would have been cut or not used as the liberal vegan girl I am. And I think they only hired me to prevent me from SUING SAG for violating my rights for this PAST YEAR.
In addition, I attended this PANEL at the SAG FOUNDATION: Then do you know what happened. I got a letter saying I would be arrested if I entered the BUILDING. Listen to the panel. I was in the audience. I am a retired lawyer and also at the end well I gave $2 to the DNC and called for OBAMA. My father is probably pissed because technically he might say it was his $2. It depends on if I can find work. I wanted to make sure though that everyone knew- I have not nor will I EVER be a friend to my FATHER or on his TEAM. I want to sue ABC and DISNEY for at a minimum a half million for blacklisting me for years and SAG for $150,000 for fraudulent activity, violating my rights, and discriminating against me not for being gay, but perhaps for thinking that I AM and for being a liberal female who is a Democrat and also has the right to fight for a professional acting career and production career regardless of my age, my political beliefs, or my prejudice against celebrity actors who abuse women or who abused me. And I had the right to voice what certain actors did to me when their friends are on the BOARD OF SAG- i.e. ABC actors who have accused me of being “crazy” just because I look not like a model and because they did not believe I was a lawyer or because I was an extra they will never see me as an actor.
I have had my only source of income taken away from me because of their friends and their stuck up attitude that because I was an EXTRA I can NEVER BE AN ACTOR. And last time I checked even if I did have MENTAL problems- I am protected and you the UNION do not have the right to add to those problems by making fun of me, abusing me, or playing some sick game so I CAN”T sue you. By the way- not a Clint Eastwood fan. I don’t even know his agents are, or well someone recently mentioned he has a bungalow on a lot, but I don’t know which one. I don’t like men like “Dirty Harry” so not really a big fan. I only like the film he did as a kid with the MONKEY.
Now for an important fact- I was 501/50ed by my union while their lead lawyer looked on. At least my pathology report by the way has been paid for- a report that shows the only drugs in my system was a shot they gave me. I sent the other bills to SAG legal and they told me they would send them to where they needed to go to get paid. I have no idea who. WHEN I WORKED the “Changling” Jolie ran into me in the crowd and I acted like a person who had been hit by a stranger. After I heard some crew guy comment “and we want to get rid of her” but I am not sure who or what they were talking about and I ran into “Johnny Ponzio” on that set. He was either a stand in or crew. I was on set with Jolie and Malcovich. Keep in mind just like in that MOVIE- I was 501/50ed to make me SHUT up about something and I am still not 100% certain what. Men who USED ME- well sorry- they need to be MEN and admit their mistakes and apologize and leave me alone so I could move on and work also- not get rid of me unlawfully.
ADD to this the recent attack by BORTH (who I think has just been mislead because I just wanted to be protected myself- not hurt MABLY or her). Seriously I am a stranger who was on MABLY’s page as a fan for two years I think. I am on many pages and I lose track, though at the time his page was very active. I did know a crew person who told me he knew him, but well that was all, though I did like his wall posts. I AM NOT A LUNATIC- someone has been trying to HURT ME. Borth and Mably were stars of an ABC show staring Koteas who I recently realized was in “The THIN RED LINE” with both Nick Stahls (and JEREMY GILBREATHE who assaulted me was his stand-in as was Ponzio at one point) and also WILL WALLACE my old teacher who according to his student and my former friend wanted to drive me out of town. I liked Koteas’ work to, though I was not familiar with him at all until Combat. I never saw “The Thin Red Line” and in fact I did not know that TRAVOLTA as in Scientology was in it as well. I would like to also add that I recently discovered that Mably’s friend “Stuart Hazeldine” who I have also been a fan of and we even talked on twitter, has the same lawyer as ERIC DANE and DEMPSEY of Grey’s Anatomy. Also a man who I worked with on ELI STONE who knew Mably on the GATES and propositioned me for sex also has been working on Grey’s as a script Supervisor. He has repeatedly apologized for asking me the way he did when he was drunk, but any woman out there can tell him he did not ask me on a date at all, that is not what he wanted.
I actually want to expose to the government HOW women are treated by the INDUSTRY. I am an object not a person or a professional because of my sex even if I have not done anything indecent (well beyond being almost nude on set). I am not willing to put out, will not shut up about being abused, so I need to be abused more until they make me keep quiet. Sorry- let’s just say I am very much in support of “PUSSY RIOT.”
I have also discovered that my producer of ABS was talking to my father behind my back. they are not vegan and I suspect conservative. I got an email from her at one point saying I needed to learn responsibility. Excuse me but I know responsibility. i have never paid more than $700 in rent ever, because I make choices to be fiscally responsible so I can spend money on the things important to me. I was using every extra penny I had on software and equipment so I could learn production stuff and stay in the industry. I actually suspect they were talking to someone who knew my parents but for months I did not know. I asked to have tea with her when I bought a ticket to see the film at a festival in Santa Monica. I actually wanted to talk to her about her and her daughter’s production company since I was training to edit and do other things. She kept talking to me about how little money she had as though I were asking her for money. I never was. I actually wanted to work with them or for them. It is called networking to find a job, and I would have paid for my own tea. It was the same vibe I got from Barry Caldwell every time he would talk on the phone with me about how little money he had, though he swears he also was not talking to my father.
I paid my rent all through my MASTECTOMY with my work on sets. And i should still have a good reputation because I did nothing wrong. I did not harass anyone on sets but demand well- respect or not to be stood up to shoot a film (which is what Ponzio did). In order to protect Brighid I am not posting the emails here, though I did tell her my opinion on Twitter. I kind of wish I had not but her mother backstabbed me. Frankly My parents have known how i have felt about them since I went to college when I was 18 and i have refused to live with them since. I was almost on my own and what ABC did and the UNOIN has placed me in a position where I don’t feel I have anyone. I can’t trust people my parents would approve of- get real- I am who I am. I am not going to eat meat, and this is the year 2013. I am an adult or have we forgotten or is being the child of former government agency mean I have no right. Going to law school? I have met so many people in the industry who have degrees and are not using them and they are working- why was I singled out? Because i went to college in DC and therefor have to work for the government? I Know what ABC/DISNEY and the UNION has been wrong. I will not work for lawyers or legal people if I can’t find a lawyer willing to do the right thing and SUE for me.
PLEASE forgive typos. When I get angry I get a bit dyslexic.
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