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Post by hubertmcqueen on Jun 22, 2022 13:46:47 GMT
It’s his personal (private not corporate) social media account and therefore what he posts there is entirely up to him. If his past and future employers aren’t concerned about it (which demonstrably they aren’t) then I suggest you all find better things to do than complain about what a young performer does in their own time. As for mocking what faces their friends are making when on holiday…Christ alive.
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Post by cezbear on Jun 22, 2022 13:53:43 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion New Member, and thanks for popping in.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 22, 2022 13:56:43 GMT
Why are you seeking to control what people are allowed to talk about on this forum?
If you don't like something, don't read the thread or block the poster.
Social media behaviour is absolutely something that is part of the industry. It has already cost people their jobs and will do so again.
This forum is not the only place that has picked up on this particular person's online antics. Are you going to try to police those responses as well?
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Post by hubertmcqueen on Jun 22, 2022 14:05:13 GMT
Your right to spit vitriol about a performer is absolutely enshrined as is my right to call out what I perceive as cowardly and bullying behaviour when I read it and suggest your bile and energies may be better directed elsewhere.
The face that Rodney continues to work, regardless of shadowy whispers of his “behaviour raising questions elsewhere” should give you pause to consider that clearly major casting directors and producers care far, far less about this than you.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 22, 2022 14:09:55 GMT
And *block*
I am utterly fed up with anyone who seeks to police what we can and cannot comment on here.
The only vitriol I can detect is coming from the self-appointed thread police.
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Post by inthenose on Jun 22, 2022 15:11:27 GMT
It's one thing offering a defence of the lad. Perhaps he has issues going on we don't know about which explain his conduct, it's another trying to control what people can discuss. This is a theatre discussion board.
If a performer, any performer, acts like a wally on their public social media, they can expect blowback.
It's worth noting for all his moaning and unprofessionalism he has never once - ever - tried to justify why he says and acts the way he does. It's just "what I've been through".
Maybe if he actually said what he's allegedly "been through" people might see him as someone who has acted like a fool, but with an underlying cause.
As it stands, Dave is just someone who acts like a prat on social media without the talent or credits to justify such an enormous ego.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2022 15:22:47 GMT
As it stands, Dave is just someone who acts like a prat on social media without the talent or credits to justify such an enormous ego. You say that like it's uncommon. |
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Jun 22, 2022 17:11:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2022 11:07:19 GMT
I agree with the posts above Dave does at worse come across as a bit of a plonker on his social media, he isn't offensive and he has only been criticizised on here when he went off script in a show. The comments about Cinderella cast who were bad mouthing the Producers having that come back to haunt them at future castings are a reality.
I've never seen Rodders perform and if he is getting cast in shows he must be a solid performer. To be a performer you have to be confident and Rodney is clearly an extrovert and very flamboyant.
I hope he can get steady work in the industry and also provide some entertainment via his social media. If he is getting more followers and being discussed he probably likes it and he seemed to brush off the people who tweeted him about when he went off script. To have the personality that he does he must get comments and have fairly broad shoulders so us watching his postings for entertainment and have a chuckle when he does something amusing would be of little concern to him IMO.
If he has been cast by Disney then he must be able to deliver in the auditioning process and conduct himself professionally in a show. If there had been issues with him in Cinderella these would have soon been flagged up and him either not cast or he will be expected to show the right decorum backstage and a quiet word may be had if Frozen producers have heard about any antics and he is told "that won't ride here"
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Post by stagebyte on Jun 23, 2022 13:21:36 GMT
Still can’t wrap my head around that he had NINE warnings....🤯
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2022 15:43:37 GMT
I'd heard he'd had warnings surely if he got that many he should have gone unless they were for what we might call trivial things. Usually it is verbal, first written warning, final written warning then possible sacking. There would be procedures which would be agreed by Producers and Equity for things like this regardless of whether said performer is Equity member.
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