Roseanne Barr on Fighting the Hollywood Establishment

Twenty years ago, Roseanne Barr became a breakout success in the pioneering sitcom Roseanne, and earned herself a reputation for being an on-set nightmare and all-around lunatic. Barr’s version of events, however, is both more nuanced, and more plausible.

Barr recalls many of her struggles with the Hollywood “Boys Club” in the current New York magazine:

It didn’t take long for me to get a taste of the staggering sexism and class bigotry that would make the first season of Roseanne god-awful.

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