Mariah fires a little kid from her movie
Mariah Carey's movie "All That Glitters" has only been shooting in Toronto for two days and already there's trouble. Bianca Collins - an 11 year-old stage actress with tons of Broadway experience including starring with Marc Anthony in "The Capeman" - had been hired to play a young version of Carey's character, an aspiring singer. Yesterday, Collins' mother Anita received a call telling her that young Bianca - who lives in Los Angeles and was over the moon about getting the part - has been abruptly fired. This, despite the fact that Collins had been through five auditions before she'd been hired, according to her manager and agent.
What happened? Word is that Carey spotted another little girl in Toronto and hired her on the spot. "Bianca is devastated," says her mother Anita Collins. "They had said be ready to fly out Tuesday, today, and we were. Then we got the call. Bianca earned the role - but it was basically Mariah Carey pulled a fast one." A rep for Mariah insists the singer is not to blame. "The director [Vondie Curtis Hall] had never even met the little girl. She met with the casting people three times. The director found a little girl he liked and the director hired her." Collins's agent, Ellen Dranch, who's negotiating her client's departure, said only: "This happens all the time. It's the nature of the business." (Fox 411)
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