"It's also pretty shit for the actors, who for the most part are just honest people looking for their big break."

AH-HAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a laugh! Honest people my ass. Actors are fucking whores, often literally! They believe they're fucking gods who can arbitrate how the common people must act when they don't know how the world works outside their expensive gated communities and while they snort cocaine, cheat on their spouses, and rape child prostitutes when they go vacationing to the tropics.

"They're not likely to turn down career-defining roles, even if it means playing characters they might not be suited to."

Which means they're just as culpable as the executives and marketers in the fan-baiting. Maybe they're being used as weapons and shields, but they are most certainly not being forced against their wills. As I said before, they're whores; actors will say whatever has been written down for them in front of a camera for money and/or publicity. And even if they don't, they're so out of touch with reality that they buy into the rest of the leftist crap that Hollywood spews out. That's the only kind of person that can actually live and work there. Actors don't deserve sympathy.