1. “I never understood why Rosanna Arquette didn’t become a bigger star. She was everywhere in the ’80s and ’90s, was beautiful, a great actor, and had the Arquette name on top of it all. Then, when the #MeToo movement happened, she came forward about how Harvey Weinstein blacklisted her after she refused to comply with his disgusting ‘advances.’ Then it all made sense. He ruined her reputation in Hollywood, and it very much unfairly impacted her career. I’m glad to see her doing more acting these days, but I don’t think she ever fully recovered from that.”
2. “Cliff Robertson (Uncle Ben in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man). He uncovered that David Begelman was embezzling money from actors working at Columbia Pictures. He was blacklisted for decades.”
3. “Topher Grace had a bad reputation for being difficult and aloof on That ’70s Show. Turns out he was the only one who wasn’t a trash human.”
4. “A lot of people still believe Macaulay Culkin was experiencing drug addiction and on the verge of death in his teens and 20s, but he says he never actually had a problem, and any drug use was regular recreational use (like any other teenager.) It was just tabloids creating a story based on pictures of him looking skinny and disheveled. He’s been in the public eye more lately, and you always see comments about how it’s ‘great to see him healthy and sober.’ It is great to see him showing up in movies and TV again, but that doesn’t mean he was ever actually addicted to drugs.”
6. “Sarah Michelle Gellar got a reputation for being ‘difficult’ to work with, but it was actually because she was sticking up for the rest of her cast, making sure they didn’t have to work ridiculous hours. She used her star power for good and, of course, was punished for it.”
