edit: image is way too big, lol.
edit #2: did some googling about her campaigning for Precious to add context:
Indiewire's article from 2013 sums it up and even guesses that she's blacklisted:
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Might now be most famously known for her award winning role in Precious. (sorta related thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=919417&highlight=mo+nique)
She wrote an essay for The Hollywood Reporter where she talks about being blacklisted.
Lee Daniels (Empire, The Butler, Precious) response - *
that sucks. she actually had potential and deserved her oscar; would have been a great fit in the butler, too.
http://www.eonline.com/news/626853/...way-lee-daniels-told-me-i-ve-been-blackballed
edit #2: did some googling about her campaigning for Precious to add context:
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/oscar-campaign_n_4145098.html)Mo'nique sparked controversy by refusing to do press for 2009's "Precious" long before Oscar season heated up. The stand-up comedian turned actress appeared at the film's Sundance premiere and then skipped out on Cannes, Toronto and New York festivals. Mo'nique publicly questioned the purpose of Oscar campaigning, with some pundits starting to speculate that, as a relatively unestablished actress, she'd be shut out for the win. In the end, it turned out not to matter. Mo'nique remained the overwhelming favorite in supporting-actress categories throughout that season and took home her statue on Oscar night. "First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics," she said during her acceptance speech.
Indiewire's article from 2013 sums it up and even guesses that she's blacklisted:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowan...ecalls-moniques-controversial-precious-choiceIn the Vanity Fair article, Jeffery Wells was quoted several times, using some of his more caustic attacks on Mo'Nique. Specifically, here's a sample:
As for Mo’Nique herself, she’s a genuine primitive... Or so I think. Did she pretend not to understand the financial benefits of an Oscar race during that talk-show chat or is she really that thick? I thought her [Golden Globe] acceptance speech felt acted and lacked class. I thought her ‘talk to my husband’ reply to Tom O’Neil was major chickenshit. And the hairy legs thing was just astounding. Has an Oscar contending actress ever been on the red carpet with visible Yeti hair on her calves?... Mo’Nique’s spotty campaign and the certainty of her winning the Oscar is proof that you don’t have to campaign as much as most publicists think you have to... IF you’re the only real standout in your category and IF you’ve got every critics group going ‘baaaah!’ and giving you a win almost every time at bat. Plus there was never a strong Mo’Nique alternative choice. I found her performance and personality genuinely unappealing. Which of course makes me a racist. Naturally. END.
Of course, many found his "genuine primitive" line very problematic, to start.
Further, from Mark Olsen's article: "Mo’Nique seems to challenge, consciously or not, the very foundation of how a sleek, supplicating awards-season actress should look or behave."
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Might now be most famously known for her award winning role in Precious. (sorta related thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=919417&highlight=mo+nique)
She wrote an essay for The Hollywood Reporter where she talks about being blacklisted.
Noting that an Oscar win "normally does" lead to "more respect, choices, money" in the business, Mo'Nique writes, "But I got a phone call from Lee Daniels...And he said to me, 'Mo'Nique, you've been blackballed.' I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because you didn't play the game.'"
Mo'Nique also writes that she was offered the role of Forest Whitaker's wife in Lee Daniels' The Butler, a part that ultimately went to Oprah Winfrey; a role in the Daniels-produced Fox hit Empire; and the role of Richard Pryor's grandmother [also now set to be played by Oprah] in the upcoming biopic Daniels is working on—but, she adds, "they all just went away."
Lee Daniels (Empire, The Butler, Precious) response - *
he's the one that old her she was blackballed
Lee Daniels said:"Mo'Nique is a creative force to be reckoned with. Her demands through Precious were not always in line with the campaign. This soured her relationship with the Hollywood community. I consider her a friend. I have and will always think of her for parts that we can collaborate on, however the consensus among the creative teams and powers thus far were to go another way with these roles."
that sucks. she actually had potential and deserved her oscar; would have been a great fit in the butler, too.
http://www.eonline.com/news/626853/...way-lee-daniels-told-me-i-ve-been-blackballed