In the movie industry, when a mid- to high-profile actor, actress, or (less frequently) director accepts a project considered far enough beneath them to raise questions about their integrity, they are considered to be slumming it.
There are a couple ways this can pop up. A highly regarded actor that usually appears in dramatic, "serious" works can appear in "low brow" entertainment (e.g. Dame Judi Dench in The Chronicles of Riddick, Marlon Brando in Superman), someone famous taking a role considered damaging to their public image (e.g. Patrick Stuart in Masterminds), or otherwise a highly talented individual accepting a role on a project that they should have recognized was doomed from the start (e.g. Laurence Olivier in Inchon). Money and/or contractual obligation are usually the reasons, but many seem to genuinely want the role.
Typically, an actor or actress that is slumming it will look hilariously out of place in the film. Whether it's because they're horribly miscast or because they turn out to be the only competent element of the work varies from case to case.
There are a couple ways this can pop up. A highly regarded actor that usually appears in dramatic, "serious" works can appear in "low brow" entertainment (e.g. Dame Judi Dench in The Chronicles of Riddick, Marlon Brando in Superman), someone famous taking a role considered damaging to their public image (e.g. Patrick Stuart in Masterminds), or otherwise a highly talented individual accepting a role on a project that they should have recognized was doomed from the start (e.g. Laurence Olivier in Inchon). Money and/or contractual obligation are usually the reasons, but many seem to genuinely want the role.
Typically, an actor or actress that is slumming it will look hilariously out of place in the film. Whether it's because they're horribly miscast or because they turn out to be the only competent element of the work varies from case to case.
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The act of getting scummy involves alcohol and drug intoxication.
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I look like money, I smell like money, I'm swaggin' one hundreds system full of that scummy.
I'm gettin that money, gotta keep them feinds comming, ya know i'm gettin' paid from tha dirty south scummy.
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When someone dosen't take a shower and is poor.
As in, they smell bad and never wash.
Their father is filthy, has long hair down to his ass, greasy, has 2 tooth and never takes a bath.
Scummy people usually live in Government housing units that the state pay for. Either that or a one room shit house made of cement with blue pool covers on the windows.
They share a bathroom with 50 other people in their apartment complex and the same with the shower, though they never use it.
As in, they smell bad and never wash.
Their father is filthy, has long hair down to his ass, greasy, has 2 tooth and never takes a bath.
Scummy people usually live in Government housing units that the state pay for. Either that or a one room shit house made of cement with blue pool covers on the windows.
They share a bathroom with 50 other people in their apartment complex and the same with the shower, though they never use it.
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