
GamerCel
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Context: Henry Cavill removed as main character in popular Netflix show "The witcher"
"I recently got this message and somebody was like, "do you want to know what really went down?" And I was like "sure," so let me just read it. It says, "at the beginning of the show, Henry was good to work with. A lot of unusual demands that made people feel like he wasn't really a team player, but that's not unusual for a big star. Though in TV, it truly usually doesn't happen until the second season. But in season 2 and 3, something shifted, and he became really impossible for women to work with, which is always a big problem. But even worse here, because the showrunner is a woman. He would try to overrule her and try to get changes made last minute across the board without her knowledge. Which, if you know anything about showrunning, is completely fucked. The showrunner has to sign off on every miniscule detail down to the buttons on a costume. Female writers and directors were suddenly completely ignored on set, unable to do their jobs. Every department head was complaining. He started making comments. It wasn't a sexual thing: he wasn't grabbing anyone, or being lewd, but it was disrespectful and toxic all the same. He's deeply addicted to video games, to the point where it was like working with any other addict. He was distracted, he was late, he was obsessive. And a lot of people think that the misogyny came from gamer world. Video game bro language is not how you talk to coworkers. And he wouldn't stop. Someone on the show compared it to watching get brainwashed by Qanon. Like, his whole personality shifted. Eventually his disrespect escalated. He would rewrite scenes without even alerting the other actors in the scenes until it was time to shoot. He decided that he didn't want any romantic scenes at all. No kissing, no shirtless scenes, etc. He wanted complete control of storylines, but really had no idea of the limitations of TV, structure, budget, etc. He formed a weird alliance with one writer who was also a gamer, who eventually got fired after multiple HR complaints were made. And after that writer left, Henry did anything he could to hold up production and cause problems. Eventually top brass at Netflix was tired of him costing them money with delays in HR investigations. And the showrunner was asked to construct a potential exit for him. Netflix reached out to him personally, and he was given one final warning, and violated that warning with an email he sent to the entire writing staff, right after that meeting. That was it."
I know someone who has a good friend in the Witcher writing room, who like two days after Henry's departure was announced told me something really similar about the "weird alliance" between Henry and another male writer who was eventually fired for being inappropriate (the complaints were of the #MeToo variety) and apparently Henry went to BAT for that guy after he was fired, trying to get him reinstated and threatening to hold up the entire show over it.... So yeah, I believe the rest of this.
Of course this is what he goes to bat over, instead of actual social justice issues. He is an incel conservative.

incel in 2022
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