2001. UCLA Westwood. I'm temping on a research project. They offer me the permanent role. I say no.
The 2001 SAG strike gets averted. Hollywood feels conservative, risk averse. My agents are flaky. I'm in a dry spell. Saying no to "safe" feels insane. It isn't. It clears the path to The Hollywood Reporter.
This is Let's Talk About Hollywood. Career clarity plus real life from the mediasphere, for adults. I'm Karl Gibson and this is a first-hand audio Hollywood memoir from 2001 on. No blind items. No gossip. Just what it costs to say no in the shadows of the A-list.
In this episode: eating lunch with Milos Forman on Man on the Moon in 1998. Working with Courtney Love, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Jeff Conaway, Carol Kane, and Christopher Lloyd. Meeting Tara Reid. Watching What's The Worst That Could Happen and Josie & The Pussycats flop. Navigating fruitless alliances and entitled dudes. Realizing corporate America isn't scared of me.
Where are the visionaries? Sometimes you have to get out of your head to find them. Sometimes you have to turn down workable beefcake. Thank you, Christopher Lloyd.
Written and read by Karl Gibson.
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