Tatum O’Neal Still Has Her ‘Rescue Me’ Gig Despite Arrest
Remember back at the beginning of this month, when Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal was arrested for trying to buy illegal drugs on a New York City street? Well, if you thought such a public criminal incident would have a negative impact on her career, you were wrong.
According to TV Guide, it’s like nothing has happened when it comes to the people who run her most recent show, the FX dramedy Rescue Me. O’Neal plays the substance-abusing, loudmouthed sister of star Denis Leary’s character on the series, and cocreator Peter Tolan expects the actress to return to complete relevant filming on its upcoming fifth season, which won’t premiere all the way until Spring 2009, incidentally.
Says Tolan: “We want to bring her back, and I haven’t heard anything about why she wouldn’t be available to us. It’s a misdemeanor, so she’s not going to do time, and nobody has said to us we can’t insure her or anything like that. So I’m assuming she’s available to us and it’s ‘business as usual.’”
You know what I really like about that quote? [sarcasm] How obvious it is that Tolan cares so much about O’Neal’s physical health and mental well-being. [/sarcasm]
Nobody wants her to get fired, at least not in my camp. Yet for him, the situation appears to be nothing but, as he himself says, “business as usual.” With a boss like that, I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes no time for O’Neal to get back in the news for trying to score more crack. I hope Tolan is a smidgen more concerned about his show’s cast members in private than he is when speaking to entertainment reporters.
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