“Wigs. Expensive Wigs”: 59 Hollywood Secrets That Only Outsiders Wouldn’t Know

Whenever a foreign director or writer is given a “chance” by Hollywood, Netflix, etc, it’s usually to hire people outside of the unions (WGA, etc), so they can pay them way less.

Most sound engineers suffer either from tinnitus or some form of hearing loss.

Everyone always knew Kevin Spacey was gay and preferred younger men. Think 18-21 but (supposedly) even younger.

He was always out at gay bars with loads of very young men around him at all times. My aunts best friend lived in NYC and was too old for Kevin but he was a regular at many a gay bars.

Traveled all over with an entourage of college aged boys.

Even before the music industry collapsed due to sites like Napster, a lot of famous musicians weren’t getting paid. Some were lucky if their record contract gave them 10 - 14 cents per album.

Me Too kind of exposed the biggest ones. Ellen being a jerk, Cosby being a predator, Bryan Singer’s house being a twink factory etc.

Many men had and probably still have to conceal their sexuality.

Many well known actors and actresses are struggling to book anything... it's truly a miracle when some actor from an old hit show makes a comeback.

Steroids. Used by BIG names. It's obvious once you look at them critically.

Tom Cruise's wives were on 5 year contracts and both bugged out as soon as they contractually could.

That Benioff and Weiss took a lot of heat for ending GoT the way it did, but the production aspect and some of the cast were coming apart at the seams and a 9th season was impossible.

That a lot of Hollywood relationships and friendships are more complicated behind the scenes than they look publicly. Also, celebrities having entire teams managing their image, interviews, and social media is pretty much an open secret.

The casting couch does and will forever exist despite the Me Too movement. There’s enough actors/actresses that will break boundaries to get noticed, and enough producers that just don’t care.

Rappers don’t like Megan thee stallion because she’s college educated and knows better than to get into some of the unfair deals the other rappers do.

Oh I know this one! I know a famous person in Hollywood from a party. Big wedding in Spain a few years ago. Few celebs. Many of them drunk. Fun talks. I'm not famous AT ALL but some of them really opened up, I think?

One said: "All the big actors with amazing hair? Wigs. Expensive wigs. They have permanent staff employed to fit them for them. Maintenance and replenishment is done almost convert-ops-like. Most of them are bald, balding, or just wear wigs because it's part of their image to look a certain way."

Also: "They're all nerdy theater kids who made it big at some point. I treat them as such. They are very fragile, even the buff ones who play tough roles."

The guy playing Reacher, as it turns out, is quite flamboyant in real life and very sensitive. Saying nothing about his sexuality here, I have no idea about that, but he's nothing like how he acts.

Henry Cavill is just really cool and has real hair, though.
...allegedly.

Tarantino is a creep.

Cruise is... you know.

Pedro Pascal is... well, we all know.

Writers and actors care. Execs don't care, they just need tax deductibles. Profits are optional.

"But Disney is losing money and reputation!" And somehow they don't care whatsoever. That money needed to go somewhere, didn't need to be a GOOD movie or even be profitable.

Hell, many movies and shows are made to fail so they can contractually get rid of people.

Sure, the guy stating this was a clearly flamboyantly gay hair dresser for the famous, but still... actors, writers, directors. Probably millions of desperate ones looking for that ONE SHOT.

Most of the behind the scenes things like “this actor actually did this accidentally but we kept it in because it was so good” or “this line wasn’t in the script” type things are fake to get people to go back and watch the movie again.

I’ll probably get downvoted for this, but an open secret I’ve heard is that Chris Rock is obsessed with Jada Pinkett.

Apparently he pursued her for years and when she wouldn’t sleep with him, he got angry and started jabbing at her in his stand up. Which of course leads to him making a joke about her hair loss due to alopecia at the 2022 Academy Awards and all the kerfuffle that followed it.

Rock even picked Jada’s hometown as the location for his next standup special after the Oscars to further get her to notice him/attempt to humiliate her.

I don’t know if Will Smith is gay, straight, or bi, but it’s always been a poorly kept secret that the Pinkett-Smiths have an open relationship. It seems that the expectation was that Jada had to keep her dalliances under wraps, while Will could go on vacation with his female co-stars, invite the paps, and post on social media.

I also don’t think people appreciate how hard it was for queer people to exist decades ago. I truly don’t know what Will’s sexuality is, but I think people are going to look back on his marriage with Jada decades from now and see it differently.

Scientology has some serious dirt on Tom cruise which is why he bends over backwards for them.

There is no way a man as cultured and traveled as he is t would just end up a Buddhist new age monk…

Nicole Kidman got paid 5 million a year for 10 years to be married to Tom Cruise.

Katie Holmes got paid 20 million a year for 5 years to be married to him.

My friend’s brother is a personal assistant to an A-lister. They don’t know how to do the most mundane, bare minimum tasks that you and I think nothing about. They’ve been coddled for so long that they lost the ability to function autonomously.

Awards campaigns are basically paid advertising. Studios spend tens of millions on "For Your Consideration" campaigns, screenings, and events specifically to lobby Oscar voters — it's less "the best film wins" and more "whoever ran the best ad campaign wins.".