Chappell Roan Is Turning Down Movie Offers Because ‘Actors Are F—ing Crazy’ and Hollywood Is ‘So Scary’: ‘Id Rather Get Arrested’ Than Be an Actor

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1. > “I get so freaked out by film people,” Roan said. “I’ve been asked in the past couple of weeks, like, ‘You want the lead in XYZ?’ and I’m like, ‘No’…Literally, no. I originally started doing music because I wanted to get my foot in the door for acting, and then I moved to Los Angeles, and I was like, ‘Fuck that.’”

   > “The industry is legitimately so scary, and it is so out of my control,” she continued. “I can put out music whenever I want. I don’t have to wait for a casting director to be like, ‘It would be great if we cast you, and then we’ll decide your schedule for the next three months.’”

2. As an actor, I fully get it. Maybe a more collaborative, artistic effort like theatre would be a better fit. Hollywood is a cesspool of control and exploitation.

3. It’s as simple.as seeing someone do all the hard work and wanting to coast yourself off them. They want all her clout hey want to drain it then caste her out either be in illuminati or well chase you around until you shave your head and lose it all. 

   Katt done called this shit out. 

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5. Has it been 15 mins yet

6. …Rather get arrested? Than act? I think I’d take the acting gig!

7. Alright. Great. Wow.

8. Why bother acting when you can just say shit this dramatic?

9. Does she have a lot of albums under her belt that I have never heard of? Seems she is in like minute 8 of her 15 and needs to cash all the checks she can in case never makes it to minute 16.

   If she magically turns out to be a Taylor Swift where every album is a personal ATM then the way she keeps shitting on every one is odd choice but fine. Right now it just seems like a big head without enough history of success to warrant it.

10. I could see her doing a song for a movie soundtrack, but not appear in an actual movie

11. Good shes not desperate. Other people who are ‘working actors’ can have more jobs then

12. It’s weird when producers and casting directors want singers to act. It has only ever worked a handful of times and most of the time you have to allow the person to act as themselves in order for it to work

13. Finally somebody with dignity and sense.

14. Damn. Shes really onto that game. I really had fun acting but being around other actors is a nightmare, they are truly ego-driven people and nobody youd want to spend any amount of time with

15. Fair. They do be targeting actors like they’re high profile criminals, but they also do that with almost anyone famous

16. What about The Muppets?

17. Eh

    She’ll break eventually

18. So don’t do it. Don’t ever be in a movie. I hope I never see you in a movie. There’s tons of people who would love to be in a movie. I want to be in a movie.