Soap Actress Fired for Opposing Gay Plot - Page 3

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 12:52pm

Her singing almost put Linda Lavin to shame!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 12:55pm

Her "How Great Thou Art" could push you into a seizure...

[Calvin]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 1:07pm

I liked her "Sweet Georgia Brown."

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 1:25pm

"...in a taxi!"

[Hiram]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 5:33pm

Stupid stupid woman. I hope she never works in the industry again.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 5:37pm

Maybe she could take a role in Kirk Cameron's next project.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 10:03pm

Are they going to need someone to comfort Antonio and Christian because of their mother dramatically becoming younger over an episode? Because, I'm hear to help those two in anyway I can. . . in bed.

Seriously, though. I be every woman cast as Mimi in Rent were opposed to those hot pants (Maybe not so seriously). They still went on stage. . .why? Because they were actresses. Not sure what this woman's problem is. I do, however wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors. With her attitude, she's gonna need it.

[kazacalo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 1:41pm

I met Patricia Mauceri years ago. She was so NOT nice.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/4/09 at 7:03pm

Soooo, I watched today & that is all they wanted her to do? They wanted her to be fine with her son being gay (When he really wasn't)?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/4/09 at 7:55pm

The show wanted to go against Latina stereotypes and the actress playing that role is a stereotype.

I don't get why some actors refuse to play a character in fear they'll be perceived that way. I bet you if they wanted to make her character a serial killer she wouldn't have complained or said a word.

And that "entitled to her beliefs" stuff is old hat. Her views are ignorant and in a business where gays support her in her job she could at the very least support them, or appear to support them on screen.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 12:40am

Once again, my post was deleted. This time I was linking to the new article with Patricia Mauceri, who's now speaking out. Here's the link again:
Soap Actress Says She Was Fired Because of Religious Beliefs

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 12:54am

Seems like she has caught Pregeanitis.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 10:08am

She went to Fox news with her story. Enough said.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 2:18pm

I'm just trying to understand the article that was just posted. So was she fired for being opposed to the gay storyline or was she opposed because she felt her character, which she has portrayed for 18 years or so, was going to do something she felt shouldn't be done? In a way, if someone who has portrayed a character for that long don't they have any input if they feel the writers are taking it in a different direction? Just playing devil's advocate here...

[romantico]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 2:57pm

She says she has no problem with the gay storyline but then goes on about how it is out of character for the woman she portrays to act a certain way. If she had left it at that I would still have issues but at the very least I could kind of see her view. Kind of. However, she then goes on to talk about HER religious views (not the characters) and how SHE feels. This is where I lost it. She goes on to say:

"I did not object to being in a gay storyline. I objected to speaking the truth of what that person, how that person would live and breathe and act in that storyline," she said. "And this goes against everything I am, my belief system, and what I know the character's belief system is aligned to."

Notice she says how this goes against HER BELIEFS? Doesn't she mean her character's beliefs? Then she goes on about speaking the truth. Well, it sounds like her and her character are one in the same. A Professional actress would put aside her views and play it as the character,who may be more flawed and not as perfect as the the actress playing the part.Ask any actor who plays a rapist or a murderer if they ever had the problem this actress had with this role and storyline. I agree that if this actresses character were to kill someone she would not object.From what I have read so far it sounds like the actress has issues with homosexuality and felt her 14 years allowed her some room to make a statement about it. She runs to the one network who is sympathetic to these sort of issues. Why not turn to CNN? Why not just keep your mouth shut, explore legal options and then take them?

She is playing the victim card and I doubt she has a case. I also doubt she will find work after this stunt.Hopefully she has blacklisted herself.Hope she invested her money wisely. Maybe Fox is looking for some help.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 4:22pm

"In a way, if someone who has portrayed a character for that long don't they have any input if they feel the writers are taking it in a different direction?"

In a word, NO. Unless the writers REALLY like the actor, the actor is hired to say what the writers write.

If she didn't like the scene PERSONALLY, then tough.

I don't get these Holier Than Thou folks who go into acting.
What if shwe were cast as a Lesbian? Would she turn the role down?

Besides, she'd only look stupid if she said, "Make my charachter a bigot" instead of saying "It's against my religious beliefs".

[otis33]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 5:25pm

God forbid her character should grow and change.

[Malice]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 10:09pm

The actress basically screwed herself out of a paying job on One Life to Live for a few lines that literally took less than 7 minutes on the character's part. The character makes an incorrect assumption that her son is gay and she says she is okay with it, then she was done. This is what she lost a long standing job over. How about the actor playing the mayor who is a drug lord?

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 10:21pm

This kind of reminds me of Amanda Bearse. I don't know where I read it or even if I'm making it up because it was a very long time ago, but basically the writers wanted to make her character of Marcy on Married with Children a Lesbian after she came out, but she thought it betrayed the character on the show. So they kept her straight. I don't know if it's true or not or if I'm remembering it correctly, but watching the show it makes sense. Because Marcy became this huge feminist character (but I don't want to stereotype feminism with being a lesbian, it's just something I noticed on the show so forgive if you're offended by that statement) but they also wrote in on going jokes about her looking like a boy. Anyway, if it's true, then it's awesome that the writers actually took her input into the creation of the character. Because let's face it, just because you're a writer on a show doesn't mean you necessarily are right with your character. I think we've all watched shows on tv or movies or whatever and we thought to ourselves, what the hell was that writer thinking when they wrote that.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/5/09 at 10:22pm

This out of character bullsh*t doesn't fly with me. She's an idiot for thinking someone can't change when it comes to their child. I have heard every negative word for gay people fly out of my parents mouths since I was a little kid. When I brought my girlfriend home last month, they pulled her in like part of the family. They didn't and still haven't said the words, but that's fine with me. They love her and are very accepting of her in my life. My dad said if we would move to Tennessee he would buy us a house. For many many people, it changes when it comes to your own child. And THIS mother would be the same when it came to one of her precious sons who still call her, "Mommy." (Yes, I am sure it's Mami, but it still makes me giggle each time.)

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 8:47am

There are actors that turn down roles because of their beliefs...but we don't often hear about the ones that didn't get/take the role.

I refused to be in a anti-semetic play. It portrayed them in a positive light. I couldn't do it -- and I'm not even a practicing Jew. I have never once regretted that decision.

However, I would not object to protraying a Nazi (or other "evil" character) if they were being used to show/be evil.

Characters in sit coms and dramas are MORE likely to be able to talk to the writers....since they are much more intimate....how many people does a soap employ? How many plot lines are developing? I'm sure SOME actors have input, but on soaps its probably an amazingly small percentage.

Now, to play devils advocate: PERHAPS when she said it goes against her beliefs to allow the character to be a gay supporter, just maybe she meant her 'acting' beliefs. That she believed so strongly that her character could never be accepting that she could not allow herself to play what she felt was untrue for the character.

I don't actually believe that, but I just wanted to throw it out there.

[winston89]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 12:38pm

I agree with Dramamamma yet again. I feel like the thing I enjoy most about acting is doing and saying things and being someone I wouldn't normally be in real life. For example, a friend of mine who is very straight laced was in a play where he played a drunken guy who basically cursed every other word. Would he be like that in real life? No, of course not, it's not him nor is it something that he would do. But, he has said time and time again that because it was so different from what he normally does, it was his favorite role to play.

This reminds me of what happened on South Of Nowhere. The actor who played Clay asked to be written off of the show because he didn't feel comfortable with the lesbian plot that was developing in the show.

And, for the record, I can understand being offered or asked to do a role that you just can't stomach doing for one reason or another. I really can. But, I have trouble when actors and actresses say that they can't do it for religious reasons when there's actually a patron saint of theatre and acting. Now, that is something that boggles my mind.