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Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 3:49 PM

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"Worked with" trivia items are chaff that hide the good stuff

I see little value in the "worked with" trivia items.  There are tens of thousands of active actors and plenty more that are inactive or dead.

But really, eventually all the headliners work with other headliners, don't they?  This is especially true if the headliners are part of one of the "universes."  For example, Chris Hemsworth has worked with virtually all other main cast members within the Marvel Universe.  Is that really worthy of an IMDB trivia item?

For a concrete example, review the trivia items for a brand new series: The Morning Show (Apple+, 2019).  Of the 24 trivia items on IMDB, 11 fall into the "worked with" category.  That's almost half of them.

Well, of course the series brings Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carrell, and Jennifer Anniston together with folks they've worked with earlier.  Even some of the non-headliners have been around movies long enough to have The Morning Show bring them together with former colleagues.

If an actor has been around for ten years or longer, they will have a long list of "worked with" names, and therefore these connections aren't really unusual or valuable trivia items.

Please consider rejecting this type of trivia item.

Thanks,

unclehud

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