Clearly it takes an awful lot to kill a tall-profile straight white man’s careerThis is the story of two actors,one female and one male, both hugely successful in the 80s and 90s, and both blighted with what Wikipedia would euphemistically call legal controversies”. These largely happened in the early years of this century,when the woman was caught shoplifting in 2001 while under the influence of prescription drugs; and the man, while being arrested for drunk-driving in 2006, and ranted antisemitic rubbish at the arresting officer.
But where she had to wait 15 years to be given another starring role,and even then it was as a kitsch 80s novelty in Stranger Things, he was out of work for only five years after the DUI incident, or not for a minute after he was recorded shouting racist and threatening abuse at his then girlfriend in 2010; he also pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour charge of battering her that same year. Instead,he was blessed with an Oscar nomination this year and has starred in sizable-budget comedies. In other words, his career continued exactly as it always would have done whereas hers was blighted for ever.
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Source: guardian.co.uk