This Week in Gossip #43

Jessica Chastain wants her money back, Wagatha Christie goes back to court, and every has stopped caring about Victoria’s Secret.

Jessica Chastain Would Like to Speak to the Manager

Jessica Chastain is a great actress with a good reputation for being professional, hard-working, and supportive of her colleagues. She's polished in the way that only comes with getting famous in your mid-30s and having prepped for such occasions. But she's also got a weird habit of complaining about customer service on social media. The Oscar-winning star whose hot husband works in luxury fashion and is a literal Italian count took to Twitter to whip up a storm over an issue with JetBlue.

“Thanks you @JetBlue for your $15.00 credit. My flight was $1,500 and the credit is 1/100 of the money I paid you,” Chastain’s now-deleted tweet posted last Wednesday read. “Strange that I paid that for your flight entertainment system that didn’t work for the duration of my 6hr flight, but I guess it was worth it for this $15 credit.”

Complaining about servers, companies, and business glitches over social media can often feel like a righteous cause but it’s extremely hard to do it without looking like a total arse. We’ve all done it, of course. So many sites are now automated and without human connection that it feels like our only option is to yell on Twitter and hope you can embarrass somebody into action. It sucks to be taken for a ride, to pay for something and not get it, then go through the labyrinth of Kafka-esque dead ends just trying to fix the problem. I get Chastain’s frustration, but hoo boy, it never looks good coming from a multi-millionaire who’s complaining about $15.

JetBlue is historically garbage and probably deserves to be publicly dragged more by Oscar winners. Frankly, I think more of us than we’d care to admit would do exactly the same thing were we in Chastain’s gorgeous shoes. When the system is so broken that the only way to get accountability is through public drama, it’s tough to want to sit it out. Still, optics do matter. Chastain put her foot in it but I hope she got her money back once all was said and done. Don’t let these companies d*ck you over, kids!

Well, Duh: Donald Trump Angry at Biopic That Portrays Him as a Gross Sex Offender

The Apprentice flopped at the box office last weekend, but it fulfilled its true destiny of pissing off the guy whose life it portrays: that fascistic loser who’s running for President. Ali Abbasi’s film premiered at Cannes to middling reviews but has fared better with American critics. Of course, annoying Donald Trump is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. A stiff breeze could send him into a Truthsocial spiral. He was never going to, in any way, endorse a film that claims he raped his first wife (she retracted that claim later in life and he’s always denied it but that hardly makes him clean given everything else he’s said, done, and been proven liable in court for.) It wasn’t surprising that he went on a rant about The Apprentice either. One of the few reliable things about him is that any vaguely critical comment or depiction can set him off for days. The distributor has been selling The Apprentice to the masses with the declaration of “see the film that Trump doesn’t want you to see!” But who actually wants to watch it?