How to pronounce “blackball” in English

It happens instantly. And we go from this person is calling to I'm in trouble to they figured out I am truly a fraud to I'm going to be fired,I am never going to get another job because I'm going to be blackballed, I am not going to have enough to eat, I'm going to die.And so caller ID to dead in less than a second.

And he raised his hands, and said, I used to work for a Silicon Valley-based company.I will not name it, because I will be blackballed, but anyways, a Silicon Valley company.And they said every quarter, about a month left in the quarter, we'd get the directive, which is-- stop spending money.

I thought he was.Anyway, not only was I fired, I was blackballed from working again.Because he happened to be a very powerful agent.

Because he's not quite James Dean, in terms of his star power, how people project him.So anyway, Hopper's pretty much, as he puts it, he's blackballed from Hollywood.But he's still young.