I agree with your suspicions. The "casting couch" has always been a part of Hollywood and always will. Casting directors hold the keys to the gates of wealth and fame beyond one's wildest dreams. It is a position of incredible power and there's a line of young, beautiful people lined up around the block who will do anything asked of them just to get their foot in the door.
I'd bet if all was revealed, we'd be shocked at the names of those who in their young and hungry days performed shameful acts that opened the doors, allowing them to become the multi-millionaires they are now. And for every A-lister, there's thousands more who performed these same shameful acts just to see their careers wither away after a handful of TV commercials and non-speaking roles in failed pilots.
Yep. And I think what happened with Cruise is once he did the “deed” he was cast in these teen flicks but one became a monster hit, Risky Business, and that is why his career took off. Otherwise like you said, he would have disappeared.
I can think of a ton of those teen flicks I saw when I was a kid, and almost all of those kid actors in them I never saw again simply because they weren’t in hit movies.
Oh yeah and another thing is the drugs. My old girlfriend had a brother who did lighting in movies and he told me one day “just think of any A lister and 90% they do hard drugs. They sit in their trailers and all you hear all day is sniiiiif sniiiiff”.
That I didn’t believe too much until 10 years later there was this biker bar in this sleazy part of Manhattan that all these A list celebs were hitting. Harrison Ford, julia Roberts, Darryl Hannah, Drew Barrymore, just name it. Even Paul McCartney if you can believe it. It was in the paper the next day. And look at this, out of curiousity I googled it and here it is...
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2000-03-09/news/18135812_1_linda-mccartney-groove-thing-regular-guy
And nobody could figure out why all these stars were going there. Until it was revealed the owner was a coke dealer! LOL! Who ODed on the stuff BTW. And after he did, no more celebs went there. No more dealer mo more drugs.
That’s why I think all these idiots were going down to visit Castro as well. He was setting them up with the good stuff. Naomi Cambell and Kate Moss went down there to visit him, obviously because they are sooo interested in socialism. Yeah right. Castro was trading coke for praise which BTW is why I believe Oliver Stone was so fanatical about him. Stone is a huge fan of the white stuff besides being a lefty. I suspect the same deal is going on with Sean Penn and Chavez. To me it didn’t make sense these meetings. I mean yeah OK, they are into socialism, but I don’t go and visit Wall street because I’m into capitalism. No, there is something else going on there and to me it’s the drugs. They are selling praise for coke. They betray their country so they can get high.