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Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

Here was an actornobody had ever heard of, who'd been in somepretty bad movies

Here was an actor
nobody had ever heard of, who'd been in some
pretty bad movies

Full Transcript

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Here was an actor nobody had ever heard of,
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who'd been in some pretty bad movies.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
50
Timestamp in Movie
00:04:49
Uploaded
Apr 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
XTR,NEON

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Movie Summary

Zachary Horwitz's desperate attempt to become a movie star led him down a path of deception and fraud, seduced by the allure of fame and wealth.
And he was accused of pulling off - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
And he was accused of pulling off
There's this idea that Hollywood is a place - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:10
There's this idea that Hollywood is a place
And I think that can have an allure to it - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
And I think that can have an allure to it
And when they can't do it legitimately, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
And when they can't do it legitimately,
It's not usually as hard as it was in this case - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:09
It's not usually as hard as it was in this case
There's kind of a mad scientist quality - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:07
There's kind of a mad scientist quality
So I just set out right away - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
So I just set out right away
He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In terms of who he was as a kid and what he was like, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
In terms of who he was as a kid and what he was like,
Generations of Fort Wayne youth - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
Generations of Fort Wayne youth
He moved to town when he was in his early teens. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
He moved to town when he was in his early teens.
What are the odds that you'll go to school with somebody - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:13
What are the odds that you'll go to school with somebod...
So what was your reaction - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
So what was your reaction
Like, I did plays all four years of high school. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
Like, I did plays all four years of high school.
And Zach and I never crossed paths once. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
And Zach and I never crossed paths once.
When I read all the coverage about what he did, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
When I read all the coverage about what he did,
And classmates and I were all there for his origin story. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
And classmates and I were all there for his origin story.
So it seems like what you're telling me - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
So it seems like what you're telling me
All you have to do is, like, crack open a yearbook - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
All you have to do is, like, crack open a yearbook
Interestingly, Zach actually had - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
Interestingly, Zach actually had