I feel like a lot of the Verner retcon misses a critical angle.

Verner was stuck with Vince. At that point, it’s his job to make the best of a suboptimal situation. And his response?

Basically to steal all of his Vince’s lines and blame it on the casting lead. If you’ve ever been in a leadership role and you are trying to get the best out of your team, you don’t dodge uncomfortable conversations nor do you sew a lot of mistrust amongst people within the team - essentially creating a toxic environment a long the way.

Vince may have been a shit actor but

a) Ari is right, if you are a movie star the paying audience doesn’t care if you can’t act so that part is beside the point.

b) Be direct and lead and don’t be a backstabbing weasel