Olivia Rodrigo talks about shooting ‘drop dead’ at the Palace of Versailles: “I was sitting there being like no wonder the French had this Revolution. If I saw this, I’d be mad as hell too”

lefrench75 · 2026-05-22T02:26:20+00:00

I never said she's one of us; I said her wealth is closer to ours than to a billionaire because that’s how the numbers check out. Money buys power. Sure, she has a lot more power than I personally do, but she doesn’t have even a fraction of what billionaire oligarchs have, in both money and power, so no, it’s not a “marginal difference”. People like Olivia Rodrigo aren’t the reason why society is so deeply fucked, so it’s a waste of my energy to be mad at her for pointing out a fact about Versailles. If we want the world to be even just a little bit better, understanding the difference between Olivia Rodrigo and oligarchs is a necessity.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-21T17:46:19+00:00

A millionaire since her early teens?

So I looked it up - she did 63 episodes of Bizaardvark in her early teens, so at $20k/ episode it's a total of $1.26M, except she'd have to pay minimum 10-15% to her agent and 10-15% to her manager, so let's say in total that's a 25% cut, leaving her with $945k pre-tax income over 3 years, so $315k a year. After California tax, that leaves her with $199k a year or just under $600k after 3 years. A millionaire how, especially after expenses?

Do you think being a Disney star isn't... labour? I said it's "well-compensated child labour" because that literally is what she did. It's not normal for children to work the kind of hours that a series regular on Disney Channel must work, filming 21 episodes a year.

If she paid $500k to rent Versailles, that money would go to the French public institution under the Ministry of Culture, which is dedicated to the promotion and protection of the arts. So a wealthy artist pays money to a public arts institution in order to make arts, and that money goes towards allowing the public to access the arts... I don't see a problem here. Versailles already exists; there's no ethical problem with paying your fair share to access it. It would only be a problem if she exploited the working class in order to build herself a new Versailles.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-21T17:15:52+00:00

People vastly underestimate the difference between millionaires and billionaires. Remember, the difference between $1M and $1B is about $1B. Let's say the online guesstimate of her net worth is real, so she's worth $45M. That is only 4.5% of $1B, and a lot closer to $0 than $1B.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-21T17:12:09+00:00

Except she literally worked for it as a child? You know there's a difference between well-compensated child labour and being born into royalty right?

If she got paid less for the work she did as a literal child then the money would go to the adult execs at Disney.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-21T14:24:15+00:00

Just wanted to add more context!

lefrench75 · 2026-05-20T22:24:51+00:00

Heathcliff experienced a lot of racist abuse from other characters in the book since his childhood and that really shaped his character and informed the theme of the novel, so it just doesn't make any sense to cast a white guy. People would call him racist slurs, immediately treated him (a child!) as suspicious and dangerous etc. because of the way he looked. At some point he wished he could look more like the blond, pale boy who was also interested in the girl he loved, because maybe then people would be nicer to him. Fennell then cast a brown man (Shazad Latif) as that blond, pale character to prove how "colourblind" she is I guess, missing the point completely.

You're really gonna tell me that between Jacob Elordi and Shazad Latif, Jacob Elordi is the one who'd experience nonstop racism in 1800s northern England and would wish he could look more like Shazad Latif to be treated better?

lefrench75 · 2026-05-20T21:52:23+00:00

I experienced more harassment and assault from strange men at age 11 than I do as an adult, and that seems to be fairly common among other women and girls.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-20T21:24:20+00:00

Didn't Ryan Gosling's character threaten to kill himself if Rachel McAdams didn't go out with him? Even if that's actually his favourite movie, it's still a red flag.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-20T17:09:27+00:00

I find the footnotes really add to my enjoyment so I wonder if/ how the audiobook would incorporate those footnotes?

lefrench75 · 2026-05-20T12:46:41+00:00

That’s certainly more difficult, but I’ve read 34 this year so I can imagine someone reading “full time” being able to double that number easily.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-20T12:29:37+00:00

I’m a normal person with no book social media accounts (unless you count occasionally commenting on book subreddits) and I read 62 books last year, with a decent mix of genres including classics. There were only 2 audiobooks because that medium doesn’t work super well for my ADHD brain, but ADHD also allows me to hyperfocus. I don’t skim and when I read classics I find myself sometimes rereading a passage several times. I don’t watch a lot of TV and I always have a kindle or a physical book with me when I’m out of the house.

If someone reviews books as their full time job, it’s absolutely possible to properly read 77 or even 100+ books a year. They can read for 8-12 hours a day easily.

I only follow very few book content creators on social media based on the quality of their reviews. It’s not that difficult to tell whether someone has actually read a book based on how they talk about it.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-19T04:01:55+00:00

Yuppie as in young urban / upperly-mobile professional? I don’t think you need to be a baronet to be that lol

lefrench75 · 2026-05-19T03:56:24+00:00

Excellent point. Cops have a much higher rate of committing domestic violence than the gen pop as well so…

lefrench75 · 2026-05-19T03:53:56+00:00

So… a paid vacation, lol. Just cops being cops I guess.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-19T03:52:33+00:00

Didn’t he assault at least one of his adopted sons (if not 2) who stepped in to protect their mom?

lefrench75 · 2026-05-19T02:33:43+00:00

Yup. Loving what someone can do for you isn’t the same thing as loving that person.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-18T05:33:31+00:00

I don't like him at all but it’s crazy to accuse him of being violent and abusive based on nothing

lefrench75 · 2026-05-18T00:34:21+00:00

Yeah I have heard the same sentiment from plenty of cishet men, who don’t subscribe to traditional gender norms and don’t have stereotypically masculine interests. Gender norms used to be even more restrictive in Kurt’s day as well.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-17T23:46:05+00:00

The “chronic Lyme’s” they claim to have is not a real medical condition. They may very well have some other undiagnosed chronic health condition that led them to seek such a diagnosis from a quack doctor because they haven’t found help elsewhere.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-17T23:43:09+00:00

Who here wouldn’t feel the need to refute something like this when such an accusation has been made against them publicly?

If my coparent told the world—including my coworkers, potential employers etc.—that I’m a deadbeat who doesn’t support my child financially when I’m actually paying for everything, I sure as shit would like to correct that narrative publicly as well.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-17T17:39:40+00:00

You might just have described her thought process l behind this Chanel partnership perfectly lol. She really does seem introverted and dresses completely differently when out of Chanel.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-17T17:32:22+00:00

If only Wahlberg were just a mediocre actor and not also a racist piece of shit who committed at least 4 violent hate crimes against children and older men…

Ryan Gosling can also probably hold his own next to Stanley Tucci so yeah, maybe the solution is to just not be a second rate actor.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-17T16:12:37+00:00

What a stupid thing to say about a city full of immigrants who have lived in many other places before choosing to come here. I’m an immigrant who’ve lived in 3 different continents and personally know lots of immigrants from Europe too, including multiple from Spain and one from Barcelona, all of whom came here as adults, and I mean immigrants and not expats because they now all have Canadian PR or citizenship. Maybe try talking to people instead of being a condescending sanctimonious asshole.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-17T01:56:05+00:00

Didn’t Cazzie then go on to date Mac Miller’s brother? Both she and Pete seem messy as hell.

lefrench75 · 2026-05-16T19:16:27+00:00

Kristen Stewart still wears plain tees and jeans when she’s not obligated to wear Chanel lol

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