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"I’ve been out since 19 or 18, but not here because it wasn’t cool when I got here," the actor said of Hollywood on the latest episode of Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast. "My very first press junket, the guy who was our executive producer, a very famous director-producer, told Seann William Scott he almost didn't hire him because he thought was a f—."
"That’s the way it was," said Qualls. "I wasn’t out at work until I think 2015. I just didn’t want to deal with it. But then one day I realized, why should I have to be at craft service and hear a bunch of homophobic sh– wrecking my day? Then I was like, hey I don't want to hear that. And I get it, it's guy talk, and they don't think about the context of it. But I don't want to hear it."
by stars_doulikedem
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Guessing the famous director-producer is Ivan Reitman? Executive producer of the movie Road Trip, which he was in with Seann William Scott.
>”I’m there to do a job. I’m hired because I do that job well, and I deserve respect because I give it.” Qualls does not consider himself the “thought police,” but “if I’m hearing ‘f–‘ nine times from you when I’m trying to butter a bagel, I don’t want to hear that.”
It is *not* being the thought police to not want someone to utter slurs in your presence. I don’t know if his situation is common, but it’s terrible what he had to put up with.
Edit: Ohmygod. I love him and his fiance together (Ty Olsson the Cajun vampire).
> “My very first press junket, the guy who was our executive producer, a very famous director-producer, told Seann William Scott he almost didn’t hire him because he thought was a f—.”
Good fucking Lord i know i shouldn’t be shocked but who actually says this crap out loud to someone else? What were the expecting to hear back?