“Can a press interview gone bad kill a television show?”
That’s the question The Hollywood Reporter is asking after the young star of one of ABC’s low-rated series, The Real O’Neals, took both gloves off, slid on some metaphoric brass knuckles and jabbed like crazy at Colton Haynes, Bryan Singer, Eric Stonestreet and, well, a vast slice of Hollywood, L.A., and gays everywhere.
If you missed it, it was really quite something.
Related: ‘Real O’Neals’ Star Noah Galvin: Colton Haynes’ Coming Out Was “P*ssy Bullsh*t”
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Inside sources are saying ABC was caught completely off-guard by the interview — not surprising, as we can’t imagine it’d be the sort of thing they’d give the OK to ahead of time.
But the damage to the show’s fate may be more severe than a simple slap on the wrist. The outburst may wind up being the beginning of the end for the show, which is based in part on Dan Savage’s childhood.
Sure, Galvin was quick to issue an apology, but here’s a newsflash: Hollywood doesn’t exactly love having its dirty laundry aired out by the people it pays hefty sums of money to and makes famous. Imagine that.
We can easily picture the egos of more than a few executives getting bruised, and the potential of future damage has fairly high stakes with the amounts of money involved in producing a TV show.
Related: Colton Haynes Publicly Responds To Being Called “The Worst” By Noah Galvin
A source tells The Hollywood Reporter that one of the show’s executive producers who has spent four years working to get the program on the air was “begging the network not to take action.”
What’s more, insiders say Galvin’s behavior isn’t anything new, and that he’s been warned on more than a few occasions to reign in his “ego and entitlement.”
Following an “abusive” waiting period (Galvin’s choice of word), ABC announced on May 12 that the show is returning for a second season, but it looks like there’s a new diva in town.
Billy Budd
The boy clearly has issues. He didn’t act like a rational human being. He was stupid.
Stache
Cool. Alls well and ends well.
GameBoy
Of course Hollywood, go after the person keeping it “REAL” but praise the fake ass….
Alistair Wiseman
As most of us can attest to, there are repercussions to be being young and dumb. 🙂
Chances are strong his future in Hollywood is limited.
Paco
He can always go back to musical theatre, or maybe Disney will offer him a gig at one of the theme parks.
KanoChris
Yes he might be young and inexperienced in the “political” atmosphere that is Hollywood. But most of what he said is probably true. The Hollywood political machine has always been homophobic. Preventing many closeted gays to stay there and not being able to live their lives fully. Maybe if more had the guts to open up about who they truly are, Hollywood would see the light. Just like the MPAA; being run by the “old guard”; So narrow minded and prudish.
I hope the show The Real O’Neals continues as it gives our younger gay population some identity.
Tackle
I’m willing to cut him some slack. Considering that he’s 22yrs-old, new to Hollywood episodic television, and what he said wasn’t anything bomb throwing, but rather a strong opinion. Now I’m sure that since he has a better idea of how the Hollywood game is played, he’ll think longer, before he speaks…
joeyty
@KanoChris: All that awful show will teach younger gays is that, like the older gay generation knows, you’re supposed to despise Irish Catholic micks if you want to have any class.
gayhope1990
Lol he’s blown by his own petard.Well done little queen.
Captain Obvious
Good, so the kid turned out to be just like the real Savage. How a guy who told all white gay men to go out and call any black people they saw the N word after prop 8 passed got a tv show on mainstream television is beyond me.
Stache
@Captain Obvious: Alright next time post a link so I don’t have to work so hard to find the insult. Lol
I didn’t really find much. However, he often refers to himself as a “fa*got” and he did say this in 2008..
“I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of ra*ist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color.”
DCguy
I LOVE the Hollywood delusional existence.
This guy points out accurately the bigotry, the hypocrisy, and Hollywood’s acceptance of gays, as long as they are neutered over the top clowns (looking at you Eric Stonstreet) and they say it’s NOAH’S ego? No Hollywood, it’s YOUR bigotry and eg8 that enables you to keep being the bigoted place you are and think people will not call it out.
The kid spoke the truth, the reason you know this is because the response was SO defensive.
49 gays were just slaughtered, shame on Hollywood for pretending this is a big deal and attacking somebody who correctly called them out.
Dave Downunder
Ha so the loud mouthed little sh!t has not only killed his own career but potentially put everyone else on the show out of work as well. Well done boy. Let’s hope there is a lesson learned here.
Tackle
@Stache: Since you’re asking for @Captain Obvious to post a link, Then why don’t you post a link proving or showing that a large number of homophobic African Americans are a problem for all gay Americans. I would love for anyone to show that the majority of gay Americans who are murdered,
assaulted, gay clubs shot-up, funerals picketed. Discriminated in employment and job opportunities. Discriminated at church and religious functions. Put in to reparative therapy. Denied housing/rental based on sexual orientation. And called derogatory names/slurs based on sexual orientation, and so forth… Can you or anyone else show that a group who is 13.5% of the US population makes up the majority responsible for all this, and is a hindrance to ALL gays in the US??
martinbakman
I’ve never watched the show. If KwearTee spent less time foisting Zac Effron at us they could have made room for real news we could benefit from, such as a show based on Dan Savage. Hearing that, his comments now seem very apropos.
But didn’t this all seem contrived to get more of us to tune in. Afterall, it’s still publicity.
DCguy
On a a different post I said that you can tell the hollywood establishment hates honesty, and in respond they will lead “Anonymous” reports that some actor was difficult to work with, had an ego, a drug problem, was an alcoholic.
In the past, when parents were trying to protect their kids from some of the worst aspects of Hollywood life the “leaks” would always say that the parents were crazy and ruining their childs career.
And now here it is….even though there were zero reports of any difficulty before, suddenly “anonymous leaks” claim that the kid is a problem, difficult to work with etc…
Hollywood NEVER changes it’s tactics unless they are forced to. The ONLY reason they stopped claiming that people with drug overdoses checked into the hospital for “exhaustion” is because internet postings finally called them out on it.
This guy terrified the bigots and glass closet Hollywood hypocrites and they are fighting back in the same typical way they always do. 40 people slaughtered in Orlando for being LGBT and all these bigots can do is attack some 22 year old actor who is out and proud.
Chris
@Paco: He could play Iago, aka Jafar’s parrot.
Chris
@Tackle: I think he was quoting Dan Savage after prop 8 passed in CA, with huge numbers in predominantly African-American neighborhoods.
Many years ago, I looked at votings patterns for various CA propositions.
The anti-bilingual ed proposition passed in the gay, and African American neighborhoods;
The anti-affirmative-action in higher ed passed in the gay and Latino neighborhoods; and
One of the anti-gay propositions (it may have been 8, my memory’s sort of bad here) passed in the Latino and African American neighborhoods.
Dan Savage, and other commentators, might want to look a bit more broadly at how we fail to understand that these attacks on our rights are all authored by the same cabal of people who play us against each other.
Ogre Magi
@Captain Obvious: I don’t think that is true
gayhope1990
Dan Savage is not our spokesman.He’s so full of hatred:racism,biphobia…
Chevelter
I’m sorry to learn Galvin is a little monster. The show itself isn’t very good (the first episode was the best, then it all went downhill from there) but Galvin was charming and likeable – I thought. I won’t look at him the same way now. I thought he was very talented in this song –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSHzAL-k70
Hank
it would be very unfair to take the work of all on the show just because of him.
zooby
The only people who got mad were self hating closet cases (aka cowards) because the shoe fit. He was really saying what a lot of us were thinking, but ABC is full of closeted cowards with beards.
Tackle
@Chris: It’s kind of hard to figure out what he’s talking about due to his somewhat incoherent writing style… But let me correct you: Prop-8 did not pass in CA, with hung numbers in predominately African American neighborhoods. That has been debunked many times. Long story short. An exit poll from one polling place, originally put the number at 70%. That was proven to be false, but later revised down to 58%. At 58%, Black California voters only comprise 6.5% of California voters, around 7-9%. With that, one is ignoring what and how the 0ther 90% voted, and the roll the Catholic Church: Mormon Church (donated 20 million alone): Church Of Scientology: Southern Baptist: Focus on the Family: Knights of Columbus: Eastern Orthodox Church: Rick Warren’s Saddlebeck Church: Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America… All of these organizations are majority White, and raised over 80 million to defeat prop-8, and two yrs before the actual vote, had thousands upon thousands of foot solders, walking the pavement, handing out flyers and literature to defeat the measure, yet many in the gay community still want to blame the Blacks…
DCguy
@zooby:
EXACTLY!!
And the new accounts that keep popping in here to attack him are the sad little P.R. flacks that Hollywood depends on to defend their bigots and glass closets.
Again, 49 of us slaughtered in Orlando, and Hollywood is spending it’s time attacking an out and proud actor because he pointed out their homophobia.
Hillers
He is absolutely my new favorite person, and has given me reason to watch “The Real ‘Neals,” which I hadn’t even heard of before. And what a joy to find Steph from “The Goonies” is on it!
DDstar1me
I love this show. Noah is great in it. I liked him better when he stuck to his claims. Instead, he just got white washed like all the other actors and is now basically apologizing for telling the F***ing truth.
He’s young yes. But, I’d like to believe that he is a smart kid just trying to make his mark. Simple as that. Don’t let them bully you into listens Noah.
Sick a all this FAKE SH*T…..
dean089
The show’s only future is with the rest of the characters. Noah Galvin’s character is just a one-dimensional stereotype, and not a very entertaining one at that.
DCguy
@dean089:
Oh look, more little PR intern flacks attacking the out gay actor, right after 49 people just like him were slaughtered in Orlando. Hollywood bigotry knows no bounds.
Chris
@Tackle: Thanks for the clarification.
I don’t blame anyone for these defeats. I think that we need to create alliances and help one another out.
Alistair Wiseman
@DCguy:
So DCguy believes that liberal Hollywood is full of “bigotry and hypocrisy”!?!
D.tastic
This show is hilarious. I love it.
Noah Galvin was 1000% correct as far as I can tell, but as a representative of a show that employs a ton of people, he ought to have kept his petulant 22 year old comments to himself and his friends.
And Eric Stonestreet is a ludicrous eunuch clown, they had to cast a straight person because no gay man would play such a repulsive part. I want to puke when I see him on talk shows talking about playing a gay. I threw away my Robert Graham shirts away because of him.
slinky49
I enjoy the show, which I binge-watched after reading the flap about Noah’s comments because I had heard nothing about it prior to that. I think the acting, writing and direction are all competent and make a decent product. The product, though, exists within the cage of a network TV sitcom which is always going to lean toward bland and non-confrontational content. They need to attract advertisers and refrain from offending a wide range of people. I don’t expect anything different from network TV.
I like Noah based on what little I know of him via a few interviews here and there. I think he is an attractive, reasonably intelligent young man with a nice range of performance capabilities. I can admire him for speaking his mind and realize there is a great deal of “truth” [perceptions similar to my own] in what he is saying, and still fault him for being naive enough to believe he could say them publicly without suffering serious blow back. He is a working actor and if he wants to keep being one, he needs to respect the boundaries of the people and institutions who can hire and pay him.
Anyone who, like me, has had to work for a paycheck in order to live knows you don’t get to say whatever you want whenever you want to whomever you want no matter how accurately you may be observing and critiquing the business you are in or the people doing it if you want to keep getting that paycheck. Discretion is still the better part of valor. An entire business has been built around calling it “emotional intelligence”, assessing how good people are at it then coaching them to being better at it.
Noah Galvin spoke truth to power, got slapped back into his proper place for it, issued the required apology and his show got renewed. He will speak more carefully in the future. This is how the world works and how we have to live in it. the only people who get a pass not to are, as Virginia Woolf observed, those who have a room of their own and five hundred a year and, so, no need to depend on the generosity of others for their well-being.
SteveDenver
What a shame, he’s quite appealing and now this.