Pearl - July 23, 2025Modern Women Only Get Cast Because They Are Hot
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Summary
Actress Amy Poehler has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her role in the new film 'Jurassic Park: Fallen Order' and the internet is abuzz with the news. We discuss why Amy should have been cast in the film, why she didn't get the role, and why she was cast for sexist reasons.
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surprised myself because i've appeared in 10 movies as myself and those movies have grossed
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2.4 billion dollars so i'm a little surprised i'm not in the mix myself however um she's bigger
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than tom cruise bigger than stallone bigger than schwarzenegger bigger than all of them um and the
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reason apparently is the avengers she's been in the whole avengers stuff which obviously and
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jurassic park and other huge grossing films but she's moaning as obviously you know when you get
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an accolade like this the first thing to do is to complain about it um that she's often been cast
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for sexist reasons so andrew i'll come to you on this um when promoting i think i just can't imagine
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a man ever complaining about getting cast because you're hot that's awesome you know what i mean i
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i have had to be entertaining all these years i guess some would say cute not today that's for
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sure but you know all these years nobody said pearl you get to be cast because you're just
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you're just a smoke show. I'm envious, right? You know, Sports Illustrated never called. Leonardo
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DiCaprio's yacht never called. I had to learn about politics, be entertaining and funny and