You do an indie movie for small amounts of money. You should expect to do promo as part of that. You don't take roles like that to cake up especially when you're not known as a serious actress. Big name actors have done indie movies for scale and done promo to show they believe in the project. Get Out was made for $4.5 million (less than half of Precious) and the actors did promo. You gotta get out there and promote yourself at the same time. Daniel Kaluuya was everywhere and he's already getting future roles lined up.
Van Damme and Dolph were stars so if they say they don't want to do promo for free they have the leverage to get paid.
Don't act like she had a noble cause. She just didn't want to go to Cannes. She didn't even ask for money. It was only after Lionsgate kept calling that her husband asked. Again, blackballing her is right but she and her husband overestimated her worth. You think the studio "should" have paid her but they didn't have to so they didn't. If you don't have the leverage to force their hand to lose in the long run. She didn't get paid and got exiled from Hollywood. She gotta hold the L.
She did promo for the movie, she did her promo run, what you don't seem to understand is this though, when someone is trying to get you to do something for their financial benefit, you need to be asking where is my check. Period. That is business.
The actors of Get Out did their contracted promo, if someone asked them to go to Cannes and promote it after they already had distribution and finished filming and editing, it would be foolish of them and ridiculous of the studio to expect them to do extra labor when they aren't paying them.
Daniel Kaluuya got roles because the movie did box office period, Monique's got recognition with the Oscar and the movie was a success. She was blackballed, so what is your point?
LOL Van Damme and Dolph were paid to do additional promotion for the film at Cannes, but Monique who took less than scale and did all the promo for the movie as contracted should have done free promo for people who eventually blacklisted her for not doing something for free for their benefit? That shyt doesn't make any sense.
Getting paid for the work you do is now a noble cause?
Seems like a lot of you folks are in that sunken place for real. The shyt you are saying to justify her getting blackballed makes no logical sense and is absurd on its face.