15 Times Hollywood Depicted Its Own Monsters And Weirdos On-Screen

Hollywood can't help but flatter itself.

In ’She Said’, journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor investigate Harvey Weinstein’s widespread, unchecked abuse of power within the highest circles of Hollywood. The film adaptation captures the journalists’ efforts to get the story right while also dodging Weinstein’s threats. Both book and movie center around the topic of women who have been affected by sexual assault, whether directly or indirectly, working to break the abusers’ stranglehold on power.

Joel McHale stars as Chevy Chase in a movie about Douglas Kenney, the co-creator of National Lampoon based on Josh Karp’s book A Stupid and Futile Gesture. The comedy/drama tells Kenney’s story through a biographical lens.

Daniel Roebuck was always in Jay Leno corner throughout Late Shift by Bill Carter -the behind-the scenes battle to succeed Johnny Carson as host of ‘The Tonight Show,’ even before he was cast as the victor of ‘The Tonight Show’ war in the movie version of it.

Richard Attenborough convinced the studio to cast Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in 'Chaplin' after screen testing him and seeing his potential.

Carolco Pictures

Vice
Los Angeles Times

Tommy Wiseau

A24, Warner Bros. Pictures

Vox

Geoffrey Rush

HBO Films, BBC Films

BBC

Daniel Roebuck

HBO

Yahoo

Anthony Hopkins on playing Hitchcock: "It was one of the most difficult roles I’ve ever had."

Searchlight Pictures

Vulture

Hollywood is hiding a dirty secret: the sexual abuse of young male actors.

Rocky Mountain Pictures

Variety

She Said

Universal Pictures

Vox

Liev Schreiber stars as Orson Welles in the HBO drama 'RKO 281.'

HBO

The New York Times

Michel Hazanavicius’ 'Redoubtable' is a portrait of iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard.

StudioCanal

BFI

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Netflix

Vice

'Auto Focus' is a dark character study of Bob Crane, the lascivious star of 'Hogan’s Heroes.'

Sony Pictures Classics

One Guy’s Opinion

Viewers were not happy with 'Saturday Night Live' after they aired a sketch making fun of the defamation case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

NBCUniversal

BuzzFeed News

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