Jennifer Esposito says she made her new movie for her 26-year-old self, whose career was 'killed' by a producer who fired her and told others not to hire her.
The "Blue Bloods" and "Spin City" alum says a "brutal" producer told others not to hire her and that she was a drug addict."He fired me for no reason," Esposito said of a "notorious, brutal" producer she did not name. "He wanted someone else and he got her.""But then, like, anybody that called was like, 'Hey, I want to hire her.' He was like, 'Don't hire her,'" Esposito said.
"He literally had the power, and he used it to completely end a young girl's career at 26 years old," she said. She described it as "a really, really painful time, because he literally — that kid who was waiting tables, and a kid who had this dream since she was a baby — he literally, he took it, because he could, and killed it.", which she wrote, directed, and stars in — is a result of what happened in that situation.
"I know for a fact that if that didn't happen with that producer and my road had been easier, I would have never written and directed what I just did," Esposito said. "Because, as I've said to a few people that know me well,, about women in a late-'80s Staten Island–based organized crime family, costars Emily Bader, Odessa A'zion, Annabella Sciorra, and Domenick Lombardozzi and is now in theaters.
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