Hollywood is known to chew people up and spit them out. It can be such a tough industry that sometimes even established actors find the odds immensely stacked against them before they set foot in the audition room.

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Elle Fanning told the 2023 Hollywood Reporter Comedy Actress Roundtable , "I've never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie. I didn't get it. I don't even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road-trip comedy. I didn't hear from my agents because they wouldn't tell me things like this — that filtration system is really important because there's probably a lot more damaging comments that they filtered — but this one got to me. I was 16 years old, and a person said, 'Oh, she didn't get the father-daughter road-trip comedy because she's unfuckable.' ... It's so disgusting.…