Sometimes it’s hard to be famous. Sure, people usually worship you far much than they should, but your low moments are also out there for anyone to see. If you get fired, god forbid, everyone is going to be able to read all about the how and why of the matter. This just makes it all the more awkward whenever someone famous gets fired for being insensitive, violent or just plain dumb.
Let’s take a look at some actors that got fired because of controversies.
Armie Hammer
Armie was in a bunch of projects and then all of a sudden early last year, a true storm of rape and sexual assault allegations just swarmed around the man. He’s been dropped from all his projects pending investigation but it’s not looking too good for Armie Hammer’s future in Hollywood.
Kevin Spacey
Right before the last season of House of Cards, Kevin Spacey was hit with several sexual assault allegations. Spacey saw no better time than that to out himself as being gay and the backlash of the entire situation led to him getting fired from the show and pretty much cancelled in Hollywood. Some movies even went so far as to reshoot all his scenes with a different actor.
Johnny Depp
Well, we all know what happened here, don’t we? Johnny got sued for domestic abuse by Amber Heard, he lost his job as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts, he won the lawsuit and then they tried to give him back his job. How and when his career will recover yet remains to be seen, but let’s have this case be a lesson to big movie studios that you shouldn’t take everything at face value.
