
The World and the indies Explicit Ills and The Place of No Words. The actor’s credits include Scott Pilgrim vs. Webber was poised to play the best friend to Smulders’ character and her love interest. In Stumptown, How I Met Your Mother grad Smulders plays Dex Parios, a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, a gambling debt and a brother (Cole Sibus) to take care of in Portland, Oregon. She was so strong with me in the trailer as the executive determined my look on the show.”
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These ‘executive’ decisions are why network tv is dying,” he wrote, adding: “The wonderful woman doing makeup, who like me had came up from the film world, had never dealt with a ‘network’ before. What the spin will be? Probably none as I’ve already been deemed insignificant by them. When pressured to hook up with the lead guy by the producers to have more ‘chemistry’ with him I said no and was promptly replaced by someone else,” she wrote, using the #industrytruths hashtag.Īn hour later, Webber had some choice words about the experience: “I’m so curious how they’re going to frame this in their upfront announcement. Many offered support, including John Ross Bowie ( Speechless), Josh Charles and Teresa Palmer ( Warm Bodies, A Discovery of Witches), the latter of whom shared her own experience being recast: “When I was 19 I was fired from a job because A.

Webber went on to receive - and retweet - feedback from the acting community.

“It’s important for me to share the real pain we endure in this industry.” “Look, I’m a straight white male so I know my journey has been way less painful in this warped industry, but I’m being recast in a network television show because I’m not handsome enough for the executives,” he wrote Tuesday, the night before Stumptown (working title) was picked up to series.
