Dear Remy
“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice to Theme Park-Allergic Author and Kid-Hating On-Set Tutor
Child Actors Are Ruining My Career Plans Dear Remy, I’m in my dream industry, but my nightmare job. Getting into the movies was always my goal — even when I was 5, I used to set up my stuffed toys as if they were on the set of a film and play at being Tarantino (I […]
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“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice to “Weird Crush” Actor and Reboot-Phobic Exec
What’s So Weird About Having a Crush On Me? Dear Remy, When I look in the mirror, I see a reasonably good-looking guy. On a good day, I’d give myself a 7/10. Maybe a 7.5 if I pluck in between my eyebrows. Why, then, am I constantly finding myself on those “Weird Crushes” lists? My […]
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“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice to a Conflicted Media Heir and a Shunned Star
I’m Being Canceled for Things My Character Did! Dear Remy, In the ’90s, I was flying high with a role in a multi-award-winning sitcom and graced the cover of every magazine. I was even considered for a Calvin Klein shoot opposite Kate Moss but was passed over for someone with more visible abs. Fast forward […]
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“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice on Met Gala Burn Out and Surviving Star Meltdowns
My Famous Boss Is a Nightmare Dear Remy, Imagine my excitement earlier this year when I was hired by a celebrated actress to be president of her TV and film label. What I wasn’t prepared for, though, was how god-awful my new boss’s ideas would be! You would think someone who had been in the […]
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“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice to a Grieving Actor and an Exec in Script Storm
My Character Was Killed Off. Is My Career Dead? Dear Remy, I always knew my character would be killed off. When I took on the role of patriarch in a prestige drama series, the production company was very clear that the man I would be playing had an expiry date. I thought nothing of it […]
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“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice to a Henpecked Star and a Reluctant Sitcom Actor
Will My Wife’s Domestic Demands Damage My Image? Dear Remy, At first, it was just texts with the usual requests partners send each other—”pick up the dry cleaning”; “we’re out of diapers”; “I’m on my way home”; “could you lay out my slippers?’ Sure, my wife could have asked her PA or the housekeeper. And […]
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“Dear Remy”: This Week He Helps an AI Victim, a Depressed Producer and an Unsexy Cartoon Critter
The Unintended Role: An Actor Faces Their AI Doppelgänger Dear Remy, As an actor whose voice has apparently been hijacked by the specter of artificial intelligence, I find myself in a perplexing, and frankly infuriating, scenario. Picture this: a bustling tech unveiling, all eyes and ears tuned to the debut of the latest AI marvel […]
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“Dear Remy”: Hollywood Career Coach Gives Advice to a Nepo Baby and Sci-Fi Filmmaker
How Can I Show the World That I Am More Than Just My Last Name? Dear Remy, I feel I have given my everything to my profession — acting. I have studied rigorously, I am my own greatest critic and — in the dead of night when the rest of the world is sleeping — […]
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Introducing “Dear Remy,” Lessons from a Hollywood Career Coach
“An OnlyFans Page for my feet?” Dear Remy, I was in a movie that had a very languorous shot of my feet. During shooting, I thought nothing of it, but now I have found that there is a grim corner of the internet that discusses my feet at length, to the point where, when you […]
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