Here’s what happens when a movie you play the lead in bombs at the box office and a sitcom you star in gets canceled midseason: You become poison. No one in Hollywood wants you in any of their productions, because they feel that anything with you in it is going to be toxic. Up to this point, my whole career had been a climb—sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but always uphill. Now that it was plummeting, I didn’t know what the next step was supposed to be. I hadn’t considered that failure was a possibility. Instead of shrugging, my shoulders began to sag. “What happens now?” I kept asking
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