TOM HANKS BTFO A MAN SO HARD HE QUIT ACTING FOR 2 DECADES

>IT TOOK JUST 2 WORDS "DEAD EYES"
>JUNE 2000 - Ratliff auditioned for a small role in the HBO series Band of Brothers
>The day before Ratliff was set to begin filming he was fired because Hanks allegedly said Ratliff had "dead eyes"

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>producer of a high quality tv show wants his actors to have screen presence
Oh the horror

>The Missouri-born Ratliff, then an aspiring actor in his mid-twenties living in England, landed what he hoped would be a life-changing role in HBO’s World War II epic Band of Brothers
>playing Private Zielinski, the aide to the show’s central character, the stoic officer Dick Winters (a young Damian Lewis)
>Hanks had developed the miniseries and was directing the episode that featured Zielinski, aptly titled “Crossroads”
>Hanx wanted him to come back in, essentially to audition again
>Worse, Ratliff’s agent’s assistant told him that Hanks felt Ratliff had “dead eyes.”

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>creates an offspring so powerful her BTFOs an entire race
The man can't be stopped. It's white boy summer, forever.

>The re-audition went by in a blur — by this point, most of the Zielinski dialogue had been cut, leading a puzzled Hanks to ask, “Oh, is that it? I wish there was more!” — and moments later, Ratliff’s worst fears were realized:
>Hanks had decided to replace him. In a state of shock, he spent the afternoon wandering the streets of London. When he came across a poster of Hanks’ most recent hit, The Green Mile, in Picadilly Circus, it was a personal rock-bottom.

>“I just remember thinking, ‘I’m never going to forget this. I’m going to be constantly reminded of this experience,’ ” Ratliff says now. '
>“A lot of bad experiences in life, you can get away from.
>But when an aspect of that experience is so ingrained in the popular culture, that was when I realized this thing I thought was going to be so great was now a huge bummer for me.”

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jesus man get a thicker skin
if you wanna be an actor get used to be people commenting on your looks

>Ratliff was right: Losing the job was a huge bummer.
>It triggered a series of events that drove him out of acting for the better part of a decade.
>And even 20 years later, after working his way back into showbiz through improv comedy, he is constantly reminded of the experience, just as he knew he would be.

>But that’s because he’s turned it into a hugely successful podcast, Dead Eyes (Season Three premieres Oct. 28)
>The podcast rehashes the event of his firing in minute detail, interrogating the very concept of disappointment along the way

>During the pandemic, the series reached new heights of popularity, bringing in prominent guest stars like Seth Rogen and Elijah Wood, as well as several key Band of Brothers contributors.
>So, too, did Ratliff’s long-running parody The George Lucas Talk Show, in which he frosts his hair and beard to play the notoriously self-aggrandizing Star Wars director, forever defending the prequel films and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

it gets worse

he has a podcast called 'dead eyes' and apparently they just discuss his firing 22 years ago

the definition of rent free

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>This is not the version of the career he envisioned for himself when he was growing up in the Midwest.
>“My fantasies were all about creating a body of work,” he says, recalling how his childhood bedroom was overflowing with Star Wars memorabilia and bound volumes of Carl Barks’ Donald Duck comics.
>Even as an adult, his apartment is filled with posters and DVDs and toys celebrating the work he loves best.
>“No one ever says, ‘Can you sign my podcast?’ ” he says with a shrug.

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You're joking, right?