Sunday, April 24, 2016

Why do Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic hate each other?

It's no secret that Castle co-stars Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic don't get along. Though they play the two lead characters on ABC's hit show, Katic and Fillion have had fewer scenes working together in recent seasons at their own request, and Katic isn't invited back for a possible ninth and final season. This is quite the departure from earlier seasons, when the two actors got along and were even rumored to be dating.

According to Dish Nation, the reason Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion grew apart was due to Stana's rising star, which caused Nathan to feel upstaged as he considered himself the star of the show. One insider said "As her popularity increased, she was given pay raises, and she even got a new dressing room equal to his. As time went on, Nathan became more and more distant, insisting that they only set foot on set together when it was absolutely necessary."

In one incident, Stana went on the set to "shadow" the director on her day off because she aspired to become a director and wanted to learn the ropes. Nathan was livid and demanded she leave. “It was Stana’s day off and she opted to come in just to follow the director around, but when Nathan found out her intentions, he put his foot down and insisted she go home.”

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Why is Rowan Blanchard a feminist?

14-year-old "Girl Meets World" star Rowan Blanchard is one of the most outspoken young feminists in Hollywood and often posts about feminist issues on social media sites. In a discussion with Interview Magazine, she spoke about what sparked her passion for activism:

I remember I was at a movie with my friend, and we were both in skirts—this was two and a half or three years ago—we were waiting outside the movies for my dad to pick us up, and this grown man came over and was like, "You guys need a ride anywhere?" I was 12 years old and my friend was 15. And I just remember sitting there feeling my heart sink into my stomach. It was such a surreal moment. Because I always see that happening in front of me; I always see girls getting catcalled. But up until that point, I hadn't experienced it. And it was like I was out-of-body for a second. I had seen that in movies, on TV, on the news. But when it happens to you, it's like, "Oh, crap, this is real; people look at me this way. And people look at other girls this way." I went home that night and didn't tell anybody. I didn't tell my parents because I was ashamed that it was what I was wearing. I was like, "Gosh, I shouldn't wear a skirt next time. What am I doing?" My sister was 10 at the time, and I remember lying in bed and thinking, "I don't want that to ever happen to her." Then, once it happens to you, you see it everywhere. When you're watching your favorite TV show, you see a joke that maybe would have gone over your head a month ago. You can't escape it. There's really nothing you can do except endure it and try and speak out about it. So that's what I tried to do. Because it started consuming me. And, when girls would come up to me and be like, "I watch your show," I would think, "Has this ever happened to this girl? Of course it's happened to this girl, because it happens every day." And it just started overwhelming me. So I started putting things on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram, because I realize that I have a following, and most of the people who watch our show, I would say, are girls. And I didn't want them ever going through that. I just started doing it because I couldn't bear it anymore.