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In all seriousness, is Felicity's career about over at this point?

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (19411)
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I mean, she along with Lori Loughlin were pretty much caught bribing universities, changing test scores, lying to get into college, and using their wealth to get themselves and their kids ahead of others. And when you bring the mail fraud and RICO charges...yeah it might as well pretty much be game over.

It is easy to assume that Felicity seems to be taking the fall for both her and William H. Macy. Maybe they probably figure that her career is over, but he can still keep working and keep his head down. Perhaps, Felicity can salvage her career somewhat by doing some tearful mea culpa interview, especially if she devotes some energy to a good cause and forks over a lot of money in charity.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16160) 5 years ago

As dead as Kevin Spacey.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Seriously?!?

This isn't a rape, or murder, or kiddie fiddling.

Yes, it absolutely disgusts me the way these wealthy elites are gaming the system to give their pampered progeny special privileges denied others, but Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are hardly the only people doing it. The whole of academia, not to mention Hollywood, the media, publishing, the law, business, and government, is more about who you know (or more accurately, who you're related to) and what mommy and daddy can do to pull a few strings, than what you know.

It would be extremely hypocritical of Hollywood to single out Huffman and Loughlin for the same of behaviour that defines the entire industry.

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 5 years ago

https://www.nickiswift.com/147740/why-hollywood-wont-cast-felicity-huffman-anymore/

[–] TheArgentinian (6429) 5 years ago

Clickbait crap. The kind you see promoted at the bottom of a website.

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 5 years ago

Is this better:
She's been typecast

While Lynette Scavo was undoubtedly the role of a lifetime, it led Felicity Huffman into a longtime struggle with typecasting. "You go into acting jail at the end of these things because it's hard for anyone to see you as anything other than Lynette Scavo or whatever it is," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011 (via the Express). "So I think it's unwise to look at the carnage around you of past TV actresses and go, 'It's not going to happen to me.'" Clearly prepared for the days ahead, Huffman joked about her backup plan to open "supermarkets and gas stations." However, it took years for audiences to view the TV star as anyone other than her most popular alter ego.

"You go, 'Oh, there's Lynette. You don't go, 'There's Felicity Huffman,'" she told the Associated Press in 2014 (via Fox News). Explaining how she was looking forward to playing a role that would finally shift this public image, Huffman added, "So you need to be different enough that it's not just, 'Oh, there's Lynette as a doctor. There's Lynette as a cab driver or policeman.'"

American Crime was short-lived

After struggling to find her footing again in television, Huffman's starring role on the anthology crime drama series American Crime allowed her to finally move beyond the realm of Desperate Housewives in 2015. With each season focused on an entirely different story, the actress served up distinctive looks and delivered three standout performances as grieving mother Barb, as private school principal Leslie Graham, and as Jeanette Hesby, a woman who marries into a troubled farming family.

"What was behind it is, I keep wanting to give the audience a break from the last character I played so they could see the new character as complete and whole," Huffman explained to IndieWire in 2017. "I think you feel the history of your career that's come before," she said. "I didn't want them to go, 'Oh, there's Lynette as a grieving mother on American Crime.'"

[–] darkpast (8033) 5 years ago

Take a career hit like Wesley Snipes, maybe do some time

[–] Sandman81 (1501) 5 years ago

She's 59 years old. Its not like her career was red hot anyways.

One of the good things about living in the 24 hour news cycle, ADD world of today is that stories like this come and go. Within a month it will be practically be forgotten. Obviously she has the money for a great lawyer, and in a few months she will plead down to lesser, non felony charge and that will quietly be the end of it. She can gradually start doing some roles and in time it will be forgotten.

The one thing she can't do is becoming a preachy political celebrity who loves telling us peasants what we should believe and how we should vote. Then this will be thrown right back into her face.

[–] Rorikon (16393) 5 years ago

The question is, would Hollywood cast someone again with a bad past? Hollywood likes to be an example of the perfectionism. I am pretty sure they'll ditch her now.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Hollywood is a den of inequity. It couldn't be more of anathema to perfection.

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 5 years ago

Even if she pleads guilty and gets a slap on the wrist, her rep is tarnished forever. Her involvement will exist on the internet forever. William H. Macy's own rep is in all likelihood, tarnished because it's clear that he knew that it was happening but hasn't been charged because they don't have enough evidence against him.

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 5 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Is-Felicity-Huffmans-career-over

https://www.quora.com/Is-Felicity-Huffmans-career-over/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

1. She’s 57 - That means that to remain in Hollywood she would have to take older mother/grandmother roles. And the competition for those is fierce, especially considering that most other female actors wouldn’t have her baggage.

2. She’s never been a sexpot, nor a beauty queen - Huffman was never a draw due to her appearance, and that had already limited her roles.

3. She was never a major box office draw - Felicity Huffman was never a reason that people went to the movies. That alone means that her career was always tenuous.

4. She’s a stage actor; however her infamy will detract attention away from the play - Putting her to work in a play will mean that she, and not the material, will be the focus of attention. Few playwrights and/or producers are looking for that.

5. The details of what happened aren’t going to paint her in a good light - She cheated to get her daughter into a good college when her daughter could have simply gone to any college and worked hard. Since this will probably get her daughter expelled (or at least asked to leave) then her credibility as a parent will be very low. That doesn’t engender fan appreciation.

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 5 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-way-for-Lori-Loughlin-Felicity-Huffman-and-William-H-Macy-to-redeem-themselves-in-the-wake-of-Operation-Varsity-Blues-Is-it-true-that-the-public-will-eventually-forgive-them-because-they-are/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

As far Ms. Huffman: Apparently the prosecution is seeking imprisonment as part of her sentence in addition to a heavy fine and several years of probation. Since she was not an A-list actor, nor was she even a leading actor in very many minor roles, her career may well be over. Given her age and the limited number of roles which were already available to her, the extra baggage of her now being a convicted felon might make impossible for her to obtain work. When she completes her incarceration and her probation, she may be able to find stage work (She began as a theatrical actor) however television and feature films beyond reality television and minor roles is very unlikely.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Oh, it's possible she'll make something of a comeback, although obviously it will be a long time before she's the first choice for the big showy roles that get Oscar noms. She's not a career criminal like Bill Cosby or Bryan Singer, and isn't instantly recognizable, so if she's got friends in the industry who are willing to give her a break she might find work in character roles after all the legal issues are settled.

Like someone said, the public has a very short attention span, and in time the anger over this issue will fade, and some people at least will see her as a mother who was trying to do something for her child. At least, that's what she'll say on the apology tour.