I don't know if any of you have read this article yet at Inside/TV. (Click on "this article," and it will take you to "George Eads Q&A.") In it, CSI's George Eads says some not-so-nice things about his supposed "friends" Jorja Fox, Gary Dourdan, and William Petersen. Then he talks about himself like he's basically the Brad Pitt of TV land. (No, he didn't say that. I'm talking about the attitude he takes.) That's right folks. It seems George Eads has come down with a bad case of Katherine Heigl Syndrome, and it's turning me off big time.So what did he say? For starters, he called Jorja an insecure diva (his exact words), which is really nice considering that I've read time and time again that they were friends long before CSI and that she's the whole reason he got rehired back in 2004 (TPTB rehired her first, but she refused to come back without him). What a way to repay her, George. What a way to thank her for still being on the show to begin with. Seriously, with friends like George Eads, who needs enemies? Hell, if that's the way he thinks of his long-time "friend," he probably helped fuel those insecurities. I've had friends like that, the ones who like to plant seeds of doubt in your mind because, in the end, it makes them feel better about themselves. Dr. Phil would call those friends toxic. I just call them jerks.
George then disparages William Petersen with the following when the interviewer asks if he misses him: "But towards the end man, he would get to work, he really didn't want to be there. You know. He was -- there were kind of grumblings. And I'm sure he was thinking of a lot after the show. But he had been planning on not being there for years. And I'm not trying to be malicious and saying that he was mean in anyway. But I want to be with actors [who] really want to be there. With all due respect to Billy. Whether it be Lauren, Laurence, guest stars, somebody [who] comes on and plays a dead body. I mean, I really want to work with actors [who] really want to be there."
As for Gary, George had more of the same to say, how he was creating all this tension on the set and how he didn't want to be there either. (Yeah, if I had coworkers who thought of me that way, I might have a bad attitude at work and turn to drugs, too. ) He then goes on and on about actors who show up ready to go, including himself, yet ironically enough he admits that, prior to 2004, he showed up late to work all the time. Uh, can you say, "Hypocritical much?"
Maybe what George says about his former costars is true. Maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter. By saying what he did, he basically made it harder, at least for Jorja and Gary anyway, to get hired in the future. After all, who wants to work with an insecure diva and a man who'd rather create tension on the set than show up, roaring and ready to go? Probably not a lot of people. Given the current state of the economy and the cutbacks that are happening even in the entertainment industry, even less.
Now I couldn't stand the majority of the people that I used to work with. I even complain about them on this blog from time to time. However, I would never call them out by their real names or bad mouth them in such a way as to damage their very livelihood. I may not like them, but I don't want to take away their ability to pay their bills and put food on the table. I may be a bitch at times, but I'm not outright cruel. George, on the other hand...
I think George forgot one important little detail when he gave this interview to Inside/TV. At least one of the people he badmouths is still an executive producer on the show. As such, that man, the one who caused all those grumblings, is still essentially his boss. Bad mouth the boss in public and see how long it takes before TPTB at CSI pull a Grey's and give Izzie...I mean Nick...the cop show version of cancer. Grave Danger Part III, anyone? At least Katherine Heigl will still have romantic comedies to fall back on post-Grey's. What will George have? Seriously, what has he ever really done other than CSI? Um, not a whole lot. Maybe if he begs long enough, the insecure diva and the chief grumbler will allow him to work as an usher at their next plays.
It's a good thing that I read this interview after tonight's episode. Taylor Swift or no Taylor Swift, if I had read it before, I would have probably thrown my remote at the screen and broken it.
