Is hollywood evil?

Apparently that’s the state of Hollywood. A place where regular staff members don’t even expect to be greeted by the celebrities they share a workplace with.

A podcast with Bill Maher and the hilarious Bill Burr perfectly outlined the elephant in the room. They were discussing Billy Burrs directing debut with the movie Old Dads, and got into the “behind the scenes” of a typical Hollywood movie set.

For those unfamiliar, Bill Burr is very atypical for the standard acting/directing crowd. He’s a genuine, down to earth guy with no delusions of grandeur, and probably sticks out like a sore thumb in the sea of narcissistic, self righteous divas that is the core of Hollywood.

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It’s because I was saying “good morning” to people. That’s it. That’s where the bar is, that’s all it takes to be considered a great guy. Like, what happened to you that you think me saying “good morning” is such a nice thing? Who hurt you? What’s going on over there?

I guess that explains all the preachiness and virtue signaling in modern movies and celebrity interviews lately. Narcissistic sociopaths, making extra efforts to pose as saints.

Not evil. Just mindbogglingly toxic.

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He was explaining how everyone on set, particularly the low level staff, were shocked by how friendly and approachable he was. The reason? Allow me to paraphrase, as I can’t find the exact quote in the 98 minute podcast:

I always suspected the vibe over there is like a high school under the tyranny of popular mean girls and rich kids cliques, but I never imagined it was that bad.

Like Ellen DeGeneres, who built a brand on the mantra “be kind”, to later come out of the closet as Benito Mussolini once the cameras stopped rolling.

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