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Why Hollywood won't cast Mo'Nique anymore

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (19420)
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Monique Angela Hicks — better known by her stage name Mo'Nique — was poised to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars when she took home the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Mary Lee Johnston in the 2009 film Precious. The abusive and manipulative character was in stark contrast to the playful and vibrant personality the stand-up comedienne displays on stage. But nailing the dark and sinister role showed everyone that she was versatile and ready to take the entertainment biz by storm.

Only, things didn't quite pan out that way for the Maryland native. Instead of her career trajectory proceeding on a steady incline, she seemingly disappeared from the big screen. Her IMDb page even details a years-long, unexplained hiatus from the industry. Puzzling.

So what happened? From rumors she became money-hungry and too demanding, to the accusation that she didn't "play the game," here's the real reason why Hollywood won't cast Mo'Nique anymore.

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[–] TMC-4 (19420) 5 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Monique-blackballed-by-the-Hollywood/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

For all of her complaining and kvetching, Mo’nique forget some things that make for hard lessons in Hollywood:

She wasn’t making anybody any money - Fans weren’t lining up to see Mo’Nique and dollars open doors. If her projects had made money then we would be seeing her in projects right now.

She wasn’t diversifying - Mo’Nique could have (and probably should have) set up a career as a television performer or spokesperson. Instead she seems to have wanted a film career and she hasn’t been able to make that profitable.

She really needed a publicist - The woman said things that weren’t very smart if her plan was to have a career in the entertainment industry. She clearly needed a publicist as it’s likely that she made herself appear less appealing.

She wasn’t getting any younger - Mo’Nique is 51 when I’m writing this. That’s not an age where a performer who didn’t have a career as a sex symbol or an action star is on a career “upswing”. She had a limited amount of time to make a lot of money and she seems to have missed her window.

She’s Black and Hollywood is pretty racist - As a plus-sized Black woman in Hollywood, there aren’t a lot of roles for Mo’Nique. If she was going to succeed, she was either going to have to create her own projects or find a niche to fit into, and she seems to have done neither. Hollywood is far less forgiving of minority performers and she seems to have forgotten that.