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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

“I expressed that I was uncomfortable,” Adams told the press Tuesday at a screening for her new movie Big Eyes. “I said I would rather not add my voice to this conversation, but it was clear they were drawing a hard line, that this would be part of the conversation...I walked away from the conversation and went up to the room to do the interview. I assumed they were going to ask me about [the hacking], and I was prepared for that, to whatever degree I was prepared.”

That’s when Adams was informed that the interview had been cancelled, which she said left her “confused and definitely frustrated.”

Today released the following statement Monday, following the initial cancellation:

“As a news program, the Today show doesn’t allow guests to put restrictions on interviews. In this case, after hours of discussion we felt uncomfortable with the demands being made and we determined the best course of action for all parties involved was to cancel the interview.”


For shame, TODAY. Not that I cared for your sh*tty show anyway, but to leave Amy with such a bad taste in her mouth, especially after the great SNL experience, after badgering her for hours until she weakened enough to make it part of her segment, just to dump her because they knew they wouldn't like her statement?






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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

Adams is in the middle of an important wage gap story.

It's her prerogative not to to comment. It's also her prerogative to decline to appear on any program in which she's going to be asked about it.

It's also the prerogative of any program on which she's scheduled to appear to not abide by her wish that she not be asked about it.

When these two prerogatives meet you have an impasse.

And that I believe is really all there is to say about this.

Updated On: 12/24/14 at 03:35 PM

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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

“As a news program, the Today show doesn’t allow guests to put restrictions on interviews."

Yeah, I'm sure they follow this policy with every guest they have on.
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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

She was there to promote a movie, not to comment on corporate machinations.
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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

The wage gap story involves her own wages, why would she want to discuss that?

Also, that's three prerogatives you gave us, and none of them answer to the fact that despite everything she gave in and was going to let them bring it up.


"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
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Amy Adams Cancelled Appearance on TODAY -- for shame, NBC.

^I can think of a great many reasons a very popular actress would want to talk about not being paid as much as her male co-stars for comparable work.

But, you are right, I didn't discuss the fact that she gave in and the interview was still cancelled because I missed that.

I don't have to answer for that. But I would agree with you that the Today Show does.

All I have to answer for - which I have just done - is that I didn't catch on to an important part of the story - which you are absolutely right to point out.

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