Zooey Deschanel to Blame for Not Getting Film Role, Judge Rules
A judge on Friday dealt a blow to Zooey Deschanel, stating in a tentative ruling that she — and not her agency and former manager — was primarily to blame for her not getting a film role in 2013.Deschanel had sued her former manager, Sarah Jackson of Seven Summits Pictures & Management, alleging that the company breached its fiduciary duty by encouraging her to switch agencies from CAA to UTA.
The suit came in response to a 2015 lawsuit that Jackson filed against Deschanel, seeking unpaid commissions on her “Hello Giggles” website.In her counterclaim, Deschanel alleged that Jackson wanted her to dump CAA in order to punish the agency for not getting another CAA client to sign with Jackson.
Deschanel also claimed that Jackson knew that CAA would be better for her career, and that she got no acting work during the period when she was with UTA.In his tentative ruling, Judge Michael
