{"id":748,"date":"2015-02-23T03:59:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=748"},"modified":"2015-02-23T03:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:59:07","slug":"the-fall-of-monique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/02\/23\/the-fall-of-monique\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Mo&#8217;Nique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How fortuitous that on the eve of new <em>Oscar <\/em>winners being announced, a former recipient went public with her complaints.\u00a0 <strong>Mo&#8217;Nique <\/strong>gave an interview to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> claiming that winning the <em>2010 Best Supporting Actress Oscar <\/em>wasn&#8217;t all it was cracked up to be.\u00a0 &#8220;It should come with more respect, more choices, and more money.\u00a0 It should and it normally does.\u00a0 I thought, once you won the award, that&#8217;s the top prize &#8211; and so you&#8217;re supposed to be treated as if you got the top prize.&#8221;\u00a0 Let us not forget &#8211; one role (even an <em>Oscar<\/em>-winning one) does not a career make.\u00a0 And, if we know anything about Hollywood, it gives you what it wants, not what you think you deserve.\u00a0 According to sources, Mo&#8217;Nique was less than pleasant to work with and uninterested in campaigning for the <em>Oscar <\/em>(a win would mean more money for the studio).\u00a0 A few months ago, <strong>Lee Daniels <\/strong>called her to say, &#8220;Mo&#8217;Nique, you&#8217;ve been blackballed&#8221;.\u00a0 I was blackballed once&#8230;didn&#8217;t really care for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fortuitous that on the eve of new Oscar winners being announced, a former recipient went public with her complaints.\u00a0 Mo&#8217;Nique gave an interview to The Hollywood Reporter claiming that winning the 2010 Best Supporting Actress Oscar wasn&#8217;t all it was cracked up to be.\u00a0 &#8220;It should come with more respect, more choices, and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}